"Fille" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Miltonia. Corisandre: Issu d'Holbein et de Lisbeth. Flore: Issue de Tigris et Biche. Eleanor: Issue de Moulay et de Cadette. Diomede: Issu de Premium et de Gabrielle. Cirus: Issu de Toley et de Miss. Aline: Issue de Snail et d'une jument Normande. Leonie: Issue de Massoud et d'une fille de D-y-o. ...
— Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities • Robert Smith Surtees
... rather scandalised her. The town was full of nurses, V.A.D.'s, and canteen workers. Madame was too charitable to criticise, but I think she regarded the jeune fille Anglaise as unbecomingly emancipated. She would have been sorry to see her own nieces—Madame had many nieces, but no child of her own—occupied ...
— A Padre in France • George A. Birmingham
... voice, and when this pale, fragile girl began to recite Athalie's Dream, it thrilled me through and through. How many times, seated on my child's bed, did I practise saying in a low voice, "Tremble, fille digne de moi"—I used to twist my head on my shoulders, swell out my cheeks, ...
— My Double Life - The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt • Sarah Bernhardt
... l'unicorne qu'une jeune fille seduit, in the Bestiaire of R. de Fournival (Paulin Paris, Manuscrits francais, vol. iv, p. 25). Berger de Xivrey, Traditions teratologiques, p. 559. J. Doublet, Histoire de l'abbaye de Saint-Denys, vol. i, p. 320. Vallet de Viriville, Nouvelles recherches ...
— The Life of Joan of Arc, Vol. 1 and 2 (of 2) • Anatole France
... they are never united, Number Five will outlive the Tutor, who will fall into melancholy ways, and pine and waste, while she lives along, feeling all the time that she has cheated herself of happiness. I hope that is not going to be their fortune, or misfortune. Vieille fille fait jeune mariee. What a youthful bride Number Five would be, if she could only make up her mind to matrimony! In the mean time she must be left with her lambs all around her. May heaven temper the winds to them, for they have been ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
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