quartier
Usage examples of "quartier".
He was also very graceful and well built, with very small hands and feet, and much better dressed than his friends, who went out of their way to outdo the denizens of the Quartier Latin in careless eccentricity of garb, and succeeded.
His almost girlish purity of mind amused and charmed them, and they did all they could to preserve it, even in the Quartier Latin, where purity is apt to go bad if it be kept too long.
Anatole des Arts, it took her just five minutes to decide that it was quite the nicest, homeliest, genialest, jolliest studio in the whole Quartier Latin, or out of it, and its three inhabitants, individually and collectively, were more to her taste than any one else she had ever met.
They would even frame little plans whereby she might better herself in life, and avoid the many snares and pitfalls that would beset her lonely path in the Quartier Latin when they were gone.
I have done dreadful things besides, as you must know--as all the Quartier knows.
Though lots of people do as bad, and nobody in the Quartier seems to think any the worse of them.
They were disturbing the whole Quartier, he said, and there was quite a rassem blement outside.
Dublin, to lead a free-and-easy life among the artists of the Quartier Latin of Paris--une vie de boheme!
It was a kind of nostalgia for Paris, the Quartier Latin, her clean old trade.
The modernization project that had swept up the Avenue Neuilly and was extending the smart side of Paris to the west had by-passed the dingy Quartier des Ternes.
Portia was introduced was of a kind much frequented by students and artists of the Quartier Latin, those who were ranged in the category of les petites bourses.
But when Anna desired her to explore unaided the old and new streets of the Quartier Latin, she avowed that she was afraid of the undertaking.
In the close neighbourhood of the music all the chairs were taken, but a throng of promenaders was circling round them, amid which the grisettes of the Quartier Latin mustered in full force.
Harry centred his attention upon the students and the grisettes, as being the newest element that the show could furnish him after his long severance from Quartier Latin ways.
They had rejoined Anna by this time and found her standing as though rooted to one spot, with an expression upon her face that seemed to say not all the powers of darkness and the Quartier Montparnasse combined should cause her to budge from it.