A fiacre had been called up, and was in readiness at the door.
After a time Cuthbert pulled himself together, waited until a fiacre came along for on this side of Paris things were gradually regaining their usual aspect and then drove back to Passy.
I was able to get a fiacre on quite reasonable terms.
Completing his dressing hastily, he went out and took the first fiacre he met and drove to Passy.
I had intended to have brought them triumphantly in a fiacre to your place, when they were finished, and I can't deny myself the pleasure of disabusing your mind.
The fiacre turned down the Rue Laferriere, the horse slipping and sliding as usual over the cobblestones.
As the fiacre entered the Rue Royale, they noticed a crowd of people in front of the Madeleine shouting and cheering.
The fiacre was out of sight in a moment, but Sophia judged instantly the grade of the woman, who was evidently of the discreet class that frequented the big shops of an afternoon with something of their own to sell.
At the Place de la Concorde the fiacre had to stop altogether.
Near the Bourse a fiacre overtook her, and in the fiacre were Gerald and a woman.
I will be with you as soon as fiacre can bring me.
The firstfiacre that was passing as I left the hotel I took, and was driven, through the bright sunshine that filled the Paris boulevards, to the Grand.
On the third I was sitting after dinner at one of the tables outside the hotel cafe, smoking, under the line of trees that edge the Paris kerb, when a fiacre drew up at my very elbow, and Howard got out.
We set off for the wharf on foot, not a fiacre or chaise being procurable.
But the book-keeper alone spoke a language to snatch me from despair, by saying my fiacre might perhaps catch the diligence two miles off, in the Alle Verte, where it commonly stopped for fresh passengers or parcels.
No portier was in the way, but the door of the porte CocHre was ajar, and I entered on foot, no fiacre being ever admitted into les cours des hTels.
There St Fiacre built a monastery in honour of the Holy Virgin, and to it added a small house for guests, to which he himself withdrew.
Various relics of St Fiacre were given to princes and great personages.
Her first thought was for the fiacre which had conveyed them to the prison, but to her despair it had disappeared, and there was no other vehicle in sight.
Lenoir swung himself to the box-seat, and the fiacre drove off noisily, the sound of its wheels on the rough cobble-stones drowning by degrees the lessening outcries of the furious crowd behind.
The three men in authority conferred for a moment, and then the Commissioners hurried their prisoners to a side door where a fiacre stood waiting.
The hair-cutter appears at St. Fiacre as at all Breton fairs.
The driver of a fiacre in the average Breton large town is like his fellows of Paris.
They could not take anyone as far as the border; at most as far as some wayside inn, where speedy country horses can be found: there the runaways are waiting while the fiacre is returning.
Fiacre and Scotus on their creepystools in heaven spilt from their pintpots, loudlatinlaughing: Euge!
In Ely place, Baggot street, Duke's lawn, thence through Merrion green up to Holles street a swash of water flowing that was before bonedry and not one chair or coach or fiacre seen about but no more crack after that first.
In its own good time a night-prowling fiacre ambled up and veered over to his hail.
But here, even as they emerged from the side street, that happened which again upset Lanyard's plans: a belated fiacre hove up out of the mist and ranged alongside, its driver loudly soliciting patronage.
The whip cracked, the horse sighed, the driver swore; the aged fiacre groaned, stirred with reluctance, crawled wearily off through the thickening drizzle.
As Madame Worms-Clavelin stepped into a fiacre in the Boulevard de Courcelles, near the fortifications, she heard the newsboys crying the evening papers, and holding them out to the passers-by as they hurried along.
She reflected that her husband’s decoration would not be included in the last will and testament of the Minister of the Interior, and that hence the half-hour she had spent in the blue-curtained fiacre was of no avail.
He didn’t open his lips though, and made a great bow as the fiacre drove away.
My mother’s maid took it in a fiacre very late one evening to the Pavilion and brought an answer scrawled on a scrap of paper: ‘Write your messages at once’ and signed with a big capital R.
That implacable brute Allègre followed them down ceremoniously and put my mother into the fiacre at the door with the greatest deference.
He asked us to send him the first fiacre we met on our way to town.
And together we entered a ramshackle fiacrein The Place, and drove away out by the city gate to the white, dusty high-road, along which many white-robed Arabs and a few Europeans were trudging in the burning glare of the African sun.
Tormented by emotion, consequent upon the presentiments to which men of imagination cling so fondly, half believing, half battling with their belief in them, he arrived in the Rue Saint-Fiacre off the Boulevard Montmartre.
Lucien hurried to the Rue Saint-Fiacre after the play to write his article.
The fiacre swung in, and the woman dismissed the porter before entering the vehicle; a proceeding so unusual that it fixed the onlooker's interest.
Diving into the fiacre he shut the door and stuck his head out of the window, taking observations.
Calendar was standing in front of the station; and it was plain to be seen, from his pose, that the madly careering fiacre interested him more than slightly.
And still the fiacre lingered in inaction, still the driver lorded it aloft, in care-free abandon.
The fiacre hurtled onward, the driver leaning forward from his box to urge the horse with lash of whip and tongue, entirely unconscious of his fare's intentions.
Opposite the door they were fortunate enough to find a fiacre drawn up in waiting at the curb.
To his way of thinking the behavior of the fiacre was quite unaccountable.
Evidently Mrs. Hallam was in no great haste to reach her destination; the speed of the fiacre remained extremely moderate; Kirkwood found a long, brisk stride fast enough to keep it well in sight.
At the consulate door he paid off the driver and dismissed him; the fiacre had served his purpose, and he could find his way to the Terminus Hôtel at infinitely less expense.
It was a snug fiacre enough, but I did not care to spend the night in it, and I urged the driver to further inquiry.
It was the midnight following the visit to Miramare when the fiacre in which I had quitted my friend's house was drawn up by its greatly bewildered driver on the quay near the place where the steamer for Venice should be lying.
Springing out of the fiacre Miraudin confronted his antagonist.
He was somewhat late in starting, and hired a fiacre to drive him along the Via Appia to his destination, but when he arrived there Mass had already commenced.
Miraudin had hired a common fiacre to escape in from the city, and the police will offer a reward for the discovery of the driver.
He did not therefore take a carriage at the moment he intended, but walked on into the Corso,-- there he sprang into a fiacre and drove straight to the Sovrani Palace.
How long did the driver of that fiacre he hired, take to bring him to the wayside inn on the road to Frascati?
Varillo, getting out of the fiacre and beginning to recover something of his usual composure,--"And I daresay you are one of them if the truth were known!
Hailing the firstfiacre he saw, he told the driver to take him to Frascati.
On arriving at the angle of the boulevard, he caught sight of the fiacre again, rapidly descending the Rue Mouffetard; the carriage was already a long way off, and there was no means of overtaking it; what!
I have just seen the fiacreturn into the Rue Petit-Banquier.
The snow, which had not ceased falling since the morning, was so deep that the arrival of the fiacre had not been audible, and they did not now hear its departure.
The very sight of this girl was odious to him; it was she who had his five francs, it was too late to demand them back, the cab was no longer there, the fiacre was far away.
He descended in all haste, and reached the boulevard in time to see a fiacre turning the corner of the Rue du Petit-Banquier, on its way back to Paris.
A fiacre had been summoned to the door on the Rue de Babylone, and they had taken their departure.
By taking a fiacre and bribing the man to drive quickly he could be back in his rooms in the Rue de Rivoli, dressed, and at his club, before midnight.
After his father was dead and his brother deposed, the Scottish nobles sent a deputation to Fiacre with an offer of the throne of his ancestors.
This Saint Fiacre or St. Fithulk (as he was sometimes termed) was the reputed son of Eugenius IV.
The boy and I will spend a few hours looking for a fiacre that will stand the weight.
The fiacre stopped at the door of a celebrated perfumer, and the commissionaire, deeming us of too much value to be left on a carriage seat, took us in her hand while she negotiated a small affair with its mistress.
A fiacre crawled round the corner and paused to look on, and the Senator said, "Now which of you three gentlemen is responsible for my ride to Versailles?
The driver of our fiacre was fat and rubicund, he wore a green coat, brass buttons, and a shiny top hat, and looked as if he drank constantly.
But we will send special carriage, and be'ind you can follow up," and he indicated the fiacre which had now drawn into line.
We stood and realised Paris on the pavement while the fiacre turned in from the road and drew up for us.
Circumstances forbade his talking about it, but he cast an eye full of criticism upon the fiacre rolling along far in the rear, and remarked, with a fervor most unusual, that he hoped they liked our dust.
The fiacre which had brought Modeste was at the door.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fiacre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
