Couteau Ils sont à couteaux tirés = They are at daggers drawn.
C’est comme le couteau de Jeannot = That is like the Irishman’s gun (said of anything that has been mended so often as to have nothing of the original left).
She attempted to smile as she encountered the eager gaze of curiosity which little Sophie Couteau still fixed upon her: the charming child had come to kiss her that very morning, in her bed.
The Sabathiers were, in a like fashion, calmly sleeping; and not a sound now came from the compartment which Sophie Couteau and Elise Rouquet occupied, stretched in front of each other, on the seats.
Moreover, she took with her both little Sophie Couteau and Elise Rouquet, whose face she very carefully wrapped up.
As though this were all that she had been waiting for, little Sophie Couteau jumped from the bed quite satisfied, and went off to play with her doll again at the far end of the ward.
And at last Sister Hyacinthe was able to install herself with Elise Rouquet and Sophie Couteau in a large char-a-bancs, in which Ferrand and Sisters Saint-Francois and Claire des Anges were already seated.
La Grivotte, Elise Rouquet, and Sophie Couteau were all three there.
I fortunately recollected my couteau de chasse, which was by my side; with this instrument I severed the lion's head at one blow, and the body fell at my feet!
For the matter of that, Louis, we could cut them with your couteau de chaise.
The couteau de chasse was at his side; but, before this could be drawn, he must be hewn down by the already uplifted weapon of his foe.
In the Guyana patois it is slightly different: Couteau ounso connain quior iniam (le couteau seul connait le c[oe]ur de l'igname.
It was only after passing the palace gardens that La Couteau again began: "Well, it's that young person's own affair if she imagines that her child will be better off for passing through the Foundling.
Through this woman, he thought, he might reach La Couteau direct.
La Couteau thereupon turned to Mathieu, continuing her narrative, in order to give him his money's worth.
La Couteau quickly sprang from the cab as soon as they reached the courtyard of the St. Lazare Station.
At last, after a long month of discreet researches, conversations with Madame Menoux, Celeste, and La Couteau herself, he was able in some measure to explain things.
If ever you should come to Rougemont, just ask after Sophie Couteau there.
After a moment's perplexity La Couteau made a gesture of ignorance, and admitted that Mathieu might be right.
At this point Victoire ceased speaking, for La Couteau came in to fetch Norine's child.
When La Couteau at last reappeared with empty arms she said never a word, and Mathieu put no question to her.
La Couteau has simply bargained that the little one shall die.
But La Couteau changed the conversation by asking the maid if she could not give her a drop of something to drink, for night travelling did upset her stomach so.
When Mathieu found himself in the street again, slightly dazed, he remembered that La Couteau had told him that the child would be sent to Rougemont.
La Couteau was waiting for Mathieu in the doorway.
La Couteau looked at them with her yellow fixed eyes.
The Prairie la Crosse, the Prairie du Chien, and the Couteau des Prairies on the Mississippi, with the prairies on the Missouri, all have some points of attraction.
He was habited in a plain suit of black silk with buttons of jet, and every part of his dress, even to the sheath and hilt of his couteau de chasse, corresponding.
He then hastily loaded his pistols, stuck his couteau de chasse in his belt, and throwing the feather from his hat, was the first ready to mount in the court-yard.
He obtained his materials from the favourite resorts of different tribes, using the black pipestone of Lake Huron, the white pipestone procured on St. Joseph’s Island, and the catlinite or red pipestone of the Couteaudes Prairies.
The same circumstance will also serve to reconcile the opinion now generally entertained of the richness of the gold deposits by the few experienced miners who have seen the Couteau country, with the present paucity of production.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "couteau" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
