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Example sentences for "bons mots"

  • True," answered Huet; and in his reply he introduced the celebrated illustration which is at this day mentioned among his most felicitous bons mots.

  • And while he assembled them around him, the lustre of their bons mots, though it emanated from themselves, was reflected upon him.

  • The trusty Abigail told us stories of the good Queen, and we added bons mots by way of corollary.

  • The specimens on record, however, in the Dean’s paper called Bons Mots de Stella, scarcely bear out this last part of the panegyric.

  • Some of us have written down several of her sayings, or what the French call bons mots, wherein she excelled beyond belief.

  • She played all sorts of roles at the most fashionable houses, "through her consummate acting and bons mots drawing tears of vexation from her less gifted sisters.

  • She was as witty as she was licentious, and many of her bons mots have been collected.

  • She played all sorts of rôles at the most fashionable houses, "through her consummate acting and bons mots drawing tears of vexation from her less gifted sisters.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    again went; all cases; awful thing; bons mots; clarified butter; early religion; entire confidence; fallen snow; leave thee; literary club; local conditions; lucky enough; mining operations; more primitive; much afraid; preceding chapter; several others; solemn tone; that moment; thus making; when some; worked from