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Example sentences for "culottes"

Lexicographically close words:
culmination; culmine; culms; culo; culotte; culpa; culpability; culpable; culpably; culpados
  1. Truly, one might learn of you how a sans-culottes ought to bear himself.

  2. Every thing grows and enlarges itself, that a true and genuine sans-culottes carries next to his heart.

  3. The Emperor was in white culottes courtes, white-silk stockings and low shoes, as were the rest of the gentlemen.

  4. The gentlemen's costumes are "culottes courtes blanches, white silk stockings, and a dress-coat with gold buttons.

  5. These genuine Sans-Culottes endeavoured to rest their own power and popularity upon the same basis as formerly.

  6. Their nicety in talking of innovations with regard to him, after they had without difficulty hailed a sans-culotte an Emperor, and other sans-culottes Imperial Highnesses, was as absurd as improper.

  7. The old sans-culottes of the St. Antoine suburb ask nothing better than to go to the front.

  8. Thence I demanded to be sent during my recovery to my old Paris, to see again my St. Antoine and the sans-culottes of '93.

  9. The insurrection must extend further and further, on the same plan; the sans-culottes must be paid and remain in the cities.

  10. The Duke of Dorset, to keep up the joke, said there really were some counties in England where they called 'culottes irresistibles.

  11. A civic festival, in honour of the sans-culottes who were killed in the affair of the 10th of August.

  12. October 8, it places two sans-culottes as guards in the houses of all those named below, in the quarter, even those who could not be arrested on account of absence.

  13. The sans-culottes should be paid and remain in the towns.

  14. The less affluent used long trousers and no socks and became known as the Sans-culottes which became, as mentioned in vol.

  15. He addressed the sans-culottes in the popular club: "Now is the time to put yourselves in the place of the rich.

  16. Priests had every comfort in their secluded retreats; the sans-culottes in the prisons slept on straw.

  17. Paris, Brumaire 15, the sans-culotte Piorry, representative of the people to the sans-culottes composing the popular club of Poitiers.

  18. Who are the sans-culottes you associate with?

  19. They adopt their maxims, and are carried away by the energy of the good and true republican sans-culottes in the clubs.

  20. The French and English prisoners {244} gave money to the sans-culottes for showing the body.

  21. The sans-culottes took out the body, which had been embalmed.

  22. That while I was so a prisoner, the sans-culottes broke open the coffins to get at the lead to cast into bullets.

  23. The reign of the sans-culottes brought back the dominion of the rich; the clubs, the return of the salons.

  24. The sans-culottes cheered; the tricoteuses, seated in knots, clapped their hands wildly in savage joy, delighted that more blood was speedily to be spilled.

  25. The sans-culottes and the tricoteuses rivaled each other in the loudness and strength of their applause.

  26. The hall was filled with sans-culottes and tricoteuses who came every day to feast their eyes upon the agony of the prisoners, and to accompany them to the guillotine.

  27. Bands of sans-culottes and tricoteuses, thirsting for blood, traversed the streets, uttering cries of death; and no one seemed to think of checking their sanguinary fury.

  28. The audacity and brutality of the sans-culottes knew no bounds.

  29. By waking the bodies of their friends, the human corpse not only becomes familiar to the sans culottes of Ireland, but is associated with pleasure in their minds by the festivity of these nocturnal orgies.

  30. A number of sans-culottes were there with their pikes; but these were largely outnumbered by the multitude of uniforms of the various battalions.

  31. In nearly all the sections[3404] it is the sans-culottes who occupy the chair, arrange things inside the chamber, place the sentinels and provide the censors and auditors.

  32. Putting all together, there are not six thousand Jacobins in Paris, all of them sans-culottes and partisans of the "Mountain.

  33. They say that the sans-culottes will go on spilling their blood.

  34. The stupid, sheep-like vanity of the bourgeois enlisted as a gendarme for the sans-culottes is here well depicted.

  35. Footnote 2378: The reader will meet the French expression sans-culottes again and again in Taine's or any other book about the French revolution.

  36. The same day, a commissar of the Committee of Supervision comes and demands a dozen men of the Sans-Culottes section to help massacre the priests of Saint Firmin.

  37. Your army will be composed of the best-conditioned, the richest portion of your city; for the Sans-Culottes could but be too easily turned against you.

  38. They are not Sans-Culottes; only Sans-Culottes can fight with empty stomachs!

  39. At the foot of the guillotine a drinking-booth was established where the sans-culottes could come to drink.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "culottes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    dress; dungarees; pants; skirt