WordNet
Usage examples of "coude".
It was he who sat opposite the new player, Count Raoul de Coude, whom at over-attentive steward had pointed out as one of the celebrities of the passage, describing him as a man high in the official family of the French minister of war.
The man who had accused De Coude, and the two others who had been playing, stood looking expectantly at the count.
Looking up, he met the smiling eyes of Olga de Coude as she leaned forward upon the back seat of the machine.
From a corner of the theater Rokoff and Paulvitch saw Monsieur Tarzan in the box of the Countess de Coude, and both men smiled.
Olga de Coude was a very beautiful woman, and Tarzan of the Apes a very lonely young man, with a heart in him that was in need of the doctoring that only a woman may provide.
Occasionally De Coude dropped in, but the multitudinous affairs of his official position and the never-ending demands of politics kept him from home usually until late at night.
Rokoff spied upon Tarzan almost constantly, waiting for the time that he should call at the De Coude palace at night, but in this he was doomed to disappointment.
For days they watched the papers as well as the movements of De Coude and Tarzan.
He had not long to wait before De Coude descended from his car and passed him.
A moment later De Coude was apologizing to his host as he tore open the envelope.
Count de Coude is one of the best swordsmen in Paris, and by far the best shot in all France.
Olga de Coude stood a horrified spectator of the terrible scene which ensued during the next brief moment, then she sprang to where Tarzan was murdering her husband--choking the life from him--shaking him as a terrier might shake a rat.
Then through the palace of the Count de Coude rang the awesome challenge of the bull ape that has made a kill.
Very gently Tarzan raised the limp form of the Count de Coude and bore it to a couch.
For an instant we were the victims of a sudden madness--it was not love--and it would have left us, unharmed, as suddenly as it had come upon us even though De Coude had not returned.