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Usage examples of "anglais".

He spoke in the clean, clipped Anglais that those few stewards assigned to direct intercourse with humans used.

Yet I feel that for the Keinaba family, whose wealth and acumen is known and admired throughout the Empire, to instruct one of their own to learn Anglais, one as high-ranking, as valuable, and as perceptive as yourself, Hon Echido, means that there is a more delicate matter you wish to broach.

He prefers a comfortable hotel on the Promenade des Anglais at Nice, where he recovers health and renovates his nervous system by taking daily excursions along the coast to the Casino.

Quand il y aura des courses serieuses en France, je me charge de battre tous vos anglais avec mes russes: nous verrons si le bai a la mode ne sera pas remplace par notre gris, qui est la vraie couleur du cheval.

And whereas there is now hardly a town of France or Italy in which you shall not see some noble countryman of our own, with that happy swagger and insolence of demeanour which we carry everywhere, swindling inn-landlords, passing fictitious cheques upon credulous bankers, robbing coach-makers of their carriages, goldsmiths of their trinkets, easy travellers of their money at cards, even public libraries of their books--thirty years ago you needed but to be a Milor Anglais, travelling in a private carriage, and credit was at your hand wherever you chose to seek it, and gentlemen, instead of cheating, were cheated.

A shout went up, but she was already down the steps and running through the gate, out into the Chemin des Anglais.

Anglais et des Espagnols, nos successeurs dans le Canada et dans la Louisiane.

Pantolabus the wag jeers in the Cafe Anglais at Nomentanus the fast liver, Hermogenus is a tenor in the Champs-Elysees, and round him, Thracius the beggar, clad like Bobeche, takes up a collection.

Swallowing a hiccup, unable to summon the nerve to look behind her, she said brightly, in her breathiest ditz voice, "Je ne parle pas anglais.

Pantolabus the buffoon chaffs Nomentanus the fast-liver at the Café Anglais.

The Hotel de Castille, the Maison Doree, the Petite Jeannette, the Cafe de Paris, the Cafe Anglais became for three hours the targets of the cannonade.

He wrote them to the Cafe Americain, to Bignon's, to Tortoni's, to the Maison Doree, to the Cafe Riche, to the Helder, to the Cafe Anglais, to the Napolitain, everywhere, everywhere.

This had become painfully clear to them when at the age of four I had failed to distinguish between the notes of an oboe and a cor anglais.

Hastily she replaced them, and realised that indeed it was the earthquake, a musical portrait, and it was followed by a long lament on a plaintive instrument that was, although she did not know it, a cor anglais.

Deep within the Roseau Valley, with Mons Anglais and Mons Nichols to the south and Mons Micotrim to the north, they were surrounded on all sides by dense tropical rain forest.