Casanova says that some one 'avoit, comme de raison, forme le projet d'allier Dieu avec le diable.
This is made to read: 'Qui, comme de raison, avait saintement forme le projet d'allier les interets du ciel aux oeuvres de ce monde.
Without doubt Monsieur was rich; and in that case he might make a canal boat as pretty as a villa--joli comme un château.
You will never see me la femme comme il y en a peu, till I see you le bon mari.
I should not be at all surprised, if Lady Delacour were to appear at once la femme comme il y en a pen.
It was a description of the manner in which la femme comme il y en a peu managed a husband, who was excessively afraid of being thought to be governed by his wife.
My fate, I find, is in your hands: if Lady Delacour is ever to be la femme comme il y en a peu, which is the most improbable thing in the world, Miss Portman will be the cause of it.
If it be my fate, at last, to be la bonne mère, or la femme comme il y en a peu, how can I help it?
Boris' uniform, spurs, tie, and the way his hair was brushed were all comme il faut and in the latest fashion.
Mrs. Bethel and I are come strangely into fashion; but true critics in mode object to our having underjaws, and maintain that we are not dead comme il faut.
If we do not, the M`emoire says, they shall look upon it comme declaration de guerre la plus authentique.
We have returned a squab answer, retorting the infraction of treaties, professing a desire of peace too, but declare we cannot determine upon restitution comme pr`eliminaire.
Tantot on le langait avec des machines, comme on lancerait une banche, tantot on le soufflait avec de longs tubes, comme on soufflerait un gaz ou un liquide enflamme (Annae Comnenae Alexias, p.
I proposed to go a part of the way on foot; on which a tall lad of eighteen, ragged 'comme de raison,' offered himself as guide.
After a certain lapse of time, the nobility of genius outshines that of birth, 'comme de raison.
He answered, in a haughty tone, "Comme vous voudrez, monsieur.
The French proverb a la guerre comme a la guerre is very applicable to the circumstances--nay, rather too much so to permit one to hope to obtain a good dinner.
Never mind--a la guerre comme a la guerre--we must expect something a little out of the way in campaigning.
Afterward he speedily surrounded himself with a galaxy of "belles demoiselles vetues comme reines.
According to an old French description this old statue was: "tres beau et tres agreable ainsy que tous ses portraits l'ont represente, comme celui qui est au grand portail de Bloys.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "comme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
