What is "du bois"

Usage examples of "du bois".

Some significant American writers associated with the movement Du Bois was instrumental in launching were poet Countee Cullen (1903-46), novelist Rudolph Fisher (1897-1934), poet-essayist Langston Hughes (1902-67), folklorist Zora Neale Hurston (1901-60), poet James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938), and novelist Jean Toomer (1894-1967).

Reference has also been made, in the case of obscure passages, to the French translation of Du Bois, and the English translation of the first Ten Books alluded to in the note on Bk.

Finally the bubbles stopped rising to the surface of the punch, and the ex-Sir Sleyton du Bois was still.

After a momentary loss of power the Citroen surged forward again towards the intersection with the Avenue du Bois, the side road where the second commando of OAS men waited.

For Bougrenet de la Tocnaye, waiting with engine running in the Avenue du Bois, the speed of the approaching cars gave him a clear choice: to intercept and commit suicide as the hurtling metal cut him to pieces or let the clutch in a half-second too late.

Its quay ran, with several interruptions indeed, along the Seine, from the Tour de Billy to the Tour du Bois, that is to say, from the spot where the Grenier d'Abondance now stands to that occupied by the Tuileries.

Now, I know Ittel du Bois's Bug-it's a Buick-and I know Jeff Otis's.

Ittel du Bois wouldn't even know-his idea is to bury his nose in a drama-tape when he goes out of the house, and let the Bug drive itself.