They complain bitterly of your desertion, and say you were, at first, the enfant de la maison.
L'Enfant thereupon came in person with some laborers, and saw the work of destruction perfected (November 22).
It is not a change in L'Enfant that brings us here.
But it turned out that there were other obstinate people besides Mr. Burns, L'Enfant himself chief among them.
The President informed L'Enfant that he was to set to work at once, and so bestir himself as to have at least a general plan to show a few months later, when he himself would return from a trip South.
Mr. Lear does himself the honor to inform Major L'Enfant that Mrs. Washington intends to visit the federal building at six o'clock this evening.
Young L'Enfant grew up among artistic surroundings, and, as subsequent events showed, received instruction as an architect and engineer.
He jumped up and vanished, jerking out between his teeth one furious sacre enfant de grace, a Canadian title of honor, made doubly emphatic by being usually applied together with a cut of the whip to refractory mules and horses.
You alone can help me, and give me in German a faithful poetical rendering of Lamartine's "Hymne de l'enfant a son reveil.
Your German translation of Lamartine's "Hymne de l'enfant a son reveil" is exquisitely successful, and retains all the fragrance and aroma of the original poem.
He later described his flight thus: "The peculiarity in my case is that I made the journey to the Capital without hope, and with the gloomiest forebodings, in the desperate spirit of an enfant perdu.
Enfant de garce, maybe you de gal in Missouri he lofe, and not lofe him.
As I have said, Penn talked no nonsense of that kind, nor did Sir Christopher Wren when he made the fine design that London had not the sense to stick to, nor L'Enfant when he laid out Washington.
C’est un enfant de la balle = He is his father’s son; He follows the profession of his father.
Cet enfant a peu de moyens = That child is not clever.
Avare *A père avare, enfant prodigue = A miserly father has a spendthrift son.
C’est bien l’enfant de sa mère = He is the very image of his mother.
L’enfant tombe par terre, mais le fruit tombe à terre = A child falls on the ground, while fruit falls to the earth.
In one brief hour that question was put to rest, and a letter, addressed to me at the Fox and Hounds, apprised me that my grandfather considered my mother an enfant perdu, and that his displeasure was unmitigable!
He was an enfant trouve, and in time, the foundling rose to be a valet.
I know," said an enfant terrible; "I saw her hiding it under the back seat.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enfant" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
