This morning the Demoiselles Grandmaison and Hebert were cheapening immortelles and dry flowers to decorate their winter vases,--a pleasant fashion, not out of date in the city at the present day.
I could see, however, that the Intendant thought more of the lovely lady of Beaumanoir than of all the ambitious demoiselles of Quebec.
Sunday was a great time to walk on the parade ground, the young men attired in their best, the demoisellesgay as butterflies with a mother or married sister to guard them from too great familiarity.
The pretty demoiselles made much of Laurent and there were dinners and dances and card playing and sails on the river during the magnificent moonlight nights.
The demoiselles are more to thee than that splendid flag waving over a free country.
The procession changed about a little,--the young men walking with the demoiselles and whispering in their listening ears.
Here, it is usually for the demoisellesthat dances are given.
They cut more figure with us than any other dames et demoiselles convenables--respectable matrons and maids--on our books.
The solos will be performed by the Demoiselles Sonntag and Unger and the Messrs.
It took place at the Demoiselles Duguigney's house; but he was led to believe that she only used their residence for that purpose.
She took refuge there in the house of two elderly maiden ladies, the Demoiselles Duguigney, where she remained five months.
It is this play of the fan (manejo del abanico) in which fair dames and demoiselleshave become such adepts, that it has been necessary to coin a word to express this charming art.
The dance had one effect on the demoiselles which astonished us much.
These demoiselles were not the only beauties of this ball; there were many pretty women there with their husbands and adorers.
Nevertheless, he still had scruples, and sent Eudora for several months to the Demoiselles Malortie, who had given asylum to Roland when a fugitive.
Why, his Majesty says just as many and as pretty things, believe me, to all the fair young demoiselles of his court.
The other two demoiselles were to be taken to Ireland, where the King would doubtless find them husbands.
The merlin was a type of falcon well adapted to a lady's purpose, and hawking parties were common among the Norman-English families of the neighborhood--often including dames and demoiselles who flew their own falcons.
Dainty demoiselles preened and paced on the short sweet turf, petting and feeding the birds, and looking rather like pigeons themselves.
It was thought in Rouen that his father was going to make a second marriage with one of the Demoiselles de Tocqueville, whom his Aunt Claribelle did not like.
I had, of course, had transient periods of inclination towards more than one of the demoiselles in the neighborhood of La Tournoire; but these demoiselles had rapidly become insipid to me.
Les demoiselles au pompon rouge" paints their picture at one stroke, for they thrust out the face of a youngster from under a rakish blue sailor hat, crowned with a fluffy red button, like a blue flower with a red bloom at its heart.
These sailors from Brittany are called "Les demoiselles au pompon rouge," because of their youth and the gay red tassel on their cap.
These sailor lads thrive on lost causes, and it was at Ghent they won from the Germans their nickname of "Les demoiselles au pompon rouge.
At the same time, all unsuspicious of Maurice's duplicity, he implored his protection against the Demoiselles Myesses, and went to his house to seek his advice.
In the "Demoiselles de Village" the design had been to contrast the stilted, provincial nature of these village misses with the healthy simplicity of a peasant child.
In the "Demoiselles de Village" he gives a portrait of his own sisters, as they went to a dance of a Sunday afternoon.
And there was further to be seen the "Demoiselles de Village" of 1852, three country beauties giving a piece of cake to a peasant-girl.
The baroness and theDemoiselles de Beaurepaire--are paupers.
The demoiselles De Beaurepaire wore a tender look of interest and pity when they caught sight of Dard, and on the old woman courtesying to them they courtesied to her and Dard.
The teacher of these little simpletons, the Demoiselles Hamm, is a certain clerical gentleman of the name of Schreier.
Madame Tavernier in Munich, to convey a message from me to the two Demoiselles Freysinger--why not?
The Demoiselles de Coatnamprun died one winter of some pulmonary affection and within a day of one another.
The only flower that grew in the Demoiselles de Coatnamprun's garden was heliotrope, for that had been "maman's" favorite flower.
And always there was a waxen figure of le petit Jesus and the card with which he made his intention clear; for "Aux Demoiselles de Coatnamprun, du petit Jesus" was written upon it.
Her tradespeople had orders to sell their meat and vegetables to the Demoiselles de Coatnamprun at about a fifth of their value.
Do you remember Constance Trevyllian at theDemoiselles Lespard, Miss Floyd?
She answered Lucy's eager questions very curtly; said that she hated the Demoiselles Lespard and the Rue Saint-Dominique, and that the very memory of Paris was disagreeable to her.
I fear that the Demoiselles Lespard suffered considerably in reputation amongst the circle round Felden Woods from Miss Floyd's impaired good looks.
No; Aurora was at school in Paris, with the Demoiselles Lespard.
We will undertake to prevent that," promised Dumaresque, "and in the interests of charity you will find both dames and demoiselles wonderfully gracious to even a lonely, unattached man.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "demoiselles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
