But, you see, the Westerfords, while they give me carte blanche as to means to run it, expect of course that it is to be run in the approved popular grooves that the dear thoughtless ten million prefer.
Enfin il meure, en laissant a ses heritiers une carte du Salon a Lecture on il avait existe pendant sa vie.
Above all, the new commander gave Buonaparte carte blanche for the direction of the artillery.
The cuisine of the restaurant Belvedere, with its attractive carte du jour, took us into the real atmosphere of the country.
Illustration: Copyright by Underwood & Underwood The Chateau of Chenonceaux Page 191] The Hotel de France nearby spread before us a menu so good that we confiscated the carte du jour as a souvenir.
Donner carte blanche = To give full permission; To grant a person full liberty to act according to his judgment.
A little touch of that carte blanche that Mr. Duncan ordered for the crew of the Johnnie Duncan, Billie, will you?
Come back and have a little touch of carte blanche--it's on the old man.
Carte blanche, and charge it to me,' says Mr. Duncan.
Two shall be spitted, and roasted; and, as Azrael may not want us before breakfast to-morrow, the fourth shall go on the carte de dejeuner.
Upon the carte du jour at Restaurant Sowee was written Grouse.
Democracy and philanthropy have never before (or hardly ever) had their own way without let or hindrance, carte blanche to work out their own great and fancy designs.
The curious part of all this is the carte du pays it exhibits, and the remarkable and most improper position which Palmerston occupies vis-a-vis the Queen, his mistress, and his own colleagues.
A series of photographic reproductions of early maps is now appearing at Venice, under the title of Raccolta di Mappamondi e Carte nautiche del XIII al XVI secolo.
He allowed his librarian carte blanche with regard to shelves and binding.
He was in the humour of accepting anything for a change; and this carte blanche proposal, and the responsibility it involved, contained a spice of excitement which suited with his present mood.
Mr. Adams promised Mr. Gallatin carte blanche as to his instructions.
It is likely Mrs. Carte may have found copies of those letters, some of which were very long.
In the same work is the following inquiry from a correspondent: “I never met with anybody but Mr. Thomas Carte who talked of Impartiality and Mr. Thomas Carte in the same breath.
If Mrs. Carte shall choose to write to me on this affair, I shall be glad to receive a letter from her directed under cover to you.
Those who take up the cause of the King, censure the Earl of Glamorgan in most unmeasured terms: Hume assails his intellect, Carte charges him with forgery.
Phebus, which syh the necgligence, How Pheton ayein his defence His charr hath drive out of the weie, Ordeigneth that he fell aweie Out of the carte into a flod And dreynte.
Ther ben also somme, as men seie, That folwen Simon ate hieles, Whos carte goth upon the whieles Of coveitise and worldes Pride, And holy cherche goth beside, Which scheweth outward a visage Of that is noght in the corage.
I was not ready with an answer, and the Prince therefore resumed--"You had luckily stumbled on the carte favorite, but you must not trust to your luck again in this manner.
These men, with Field, were given carte blanche to surround themselves with a staff and news-gathering equipment to make the Tribune "hum.
Carte evidently regarded the Thames as an ideal stream by which to live, for he afterwards bought an eyot higher upstream, and built a house on it.
D’Oyly Carte hired a big house at Hampton, close to Tagg’s Island, where he entertained largely on Sundays.
It had a lawn running down to the river—a lawn on which I have met some very pleasant people, but none as pleasant and unassuming as Carte himself, or more hospitable and gracious than his talented wife.
If in any way possible, I shall return either on the fifteenth or the evening of the day before; but, meanwhile, I give you carte blanche to celebrate the auspicious event in any manner you like.
Unlimited money, any amount of presents, and carte blanche how to spend the birthday in the most agreeable way was surely enough to turn the brains of most people.
Enlivened by Hope and a few Dry Martinis, he would move up to a little Table in the shade of the sheltering Candelabrum and tackle the Carte du Jour from Caviar to Cafe Noir.
It was Nuts for Claudine to assemble all of the Noblemen to be picked up around the Lobby and give them a free run and jump at the Carte du Jour.
I have enclosed a carte blanche--write there a promise for what you send me; it may serve you with my father in case of my death.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "carte" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: account; bill; books; invoice; ledger; manifest; menu; statement
