What is "la."

Usage examples of "la.".

An actress named Quinault, who had left the stage and lived close by, came to call, and soon after Madame Favart and the Abbe de Voisenon arrived, followed by Madame Amelin with a handsome lad named Calabre, whom she called her nephew.

Next morning, however, when I awoke, my Spaniard announced an officer who had followed him, and told me in good French that I must not be astonished to find myself a prisoner in my room, for being a stranger and engaged in a suit at law it was only right that the opposite party should be assured that I would not escape before judgment was given.

He bade me take a seat, and with a heavy sigh he began to talk of his poverty, and ordered a servant to lay the cloth for three persons.

Then I lay down and began to consider whether the good-natured young man would prevent me committing suicide, as he had already made me postpone it.

He then begged and begged my pardon a thousand times, and went on assuring me that I must lay to my rigour the odium of the step he had taken, the only excuse for it being in the fervent love I had kindled in his heart, and which made him miserable.

He had been the beloved of the minister Teploff, and, like a lad of wit, he not only was not ashamed but openly boasted that it was his custom to secure the goodwill of all men by his caresses.

When we came home I lay down on my bed, not taking any dinner, and seeing nothing of the three sisters till they had made everything ready for the journey.

She answered that happiness could not be obtained by offending every moral law, and by swerving from our duties.

I should have required a patience to which I could not lay any claim, as every kind of injustice was revolting to me, and as I could not bear to feel myself dependent.

I lay down on my bed in the hope that sleep would for a time silence a grief which tears could not drown.

I pushed my business in such sort, that at the end of six years I could lay my hand on ten thousand sequins.

I saw her rise, get out of her bed, and go and lay herself down near her husband, who, most likely, did not wake up, and continued to sleep in peace, for I did not hear any noise.

In spite of the fierce pleasure of enjoyment and the transports of this delightful girl, I did not for a moment lay prudence aside.

Anxious to see how the land lay, I told the monk to stay with Soradaci, as I did not care to leave him alone, and I went out.

I told her that the lad might be he who should make her to be born again, but that she would spoil all if she did not wait for him to attain the age of puberty.