The young gendarme who sat opposite Werner breathed warmly upon him, and in his breath there was the odor of onions and cheap tobacco.
But on boarding the platform of the car, he stumbled, and a gendarme took him by the elbow to support him.
When Werner bent down, about to climb into the carriage, the gendarme whispered to him: "There is somebody else going along with you.
The gendarmeopened the weak fingers and pulled his hand away.
We were met and challenged by a gendarme upon our arrival, but were allowed to proceed to a modest inn.
There was now nothing for it but to proceed and to come home by the same route, since the little gendarme had given orders to this effect.
I could no more feel for a gendarme than I could compassionate a scorpion.
While I was laughing heartily at this story, my companion turned towards the gendarme and said, "Have you made a note of his teeth?
The entrance of the gendarme at this moment cut short the question I was about to ask, whether I was to accept this story as a fact or as a parable.
The gendarme asked for his passport, Terrier showed it him; the little woman in her corner, veiled and silent, did not stir, and the gendarme found all in due form.
At Amiens station the door was opened, and a gendarmeentered and seated himself by the side of Préveraud.
Then the gendarme said: "I have caught you on the highroad in the act of vagabondage and begging, without any resources or trade, and so I command you to come with me.
The brigadier turned to hisgendarme and said in the angry voice of a man who is exasperated at last by an oft-repeated trick: "They all say that, these scamps.
The gendarme whose pistol has pressed against the ear of some unfortunate, and whose uniform has been splashed with human brains, feels as guilty as his colonel.
I remember, under the Empire, how, when I spoke at Chauny, I spoke with a gendarme at the table behind me, and a couple of spies in the hall.
The gendarme said to him with some reproach, "Right you were, Florie.
When they reached Erzindjan a gendarme tried to abduct the girl, and her fiancé interfered.
A gendarme came along and seized their bridles; the Armenian implored him to leave them, saying that he was already on the verge of starvation.
The gendarme saw the despair on our faces, and said: "Their crying bothers you; I will forbid them to cry.
There were two Turkish officers on the road with us who were really Armenians, as we were told by the gendarme attached to us.
It was the 250 road-making soldiers, of whom our gendarme had told us.
The gendarme attached to us told us then that he had escorted a convoy of 3,000 women and children from Mamahatoun (near Erzeroum) to Kamakh Boghaz.
Worst of all, he forbade us to take the children away, and at once sent a gendarme to carry them off from our room.
Then if, by any chance, the victim of the accident still breathes, the gendarme arrests him for interfering with the traffic.
Up rushes a gendarme and worms his way through the press to the center.
The gendarme having departed, I returned to bed, and slept till six in the morning.
I found, indeed, by the presence of a gendarme among them, that the government did not leave them absolutely unobserved; but his duty seems to be very light, and his manner is singularly subdued and respectful.
Even as a boy, their only child, he was idolised by his parents, the old gendarme and the honest charwoman.
Antoine Wiertz, the son of a gendarme who had once been a soldier of the great Republic, was born in Dinant in 1806.
The gendarme looked at Herrion, raising his eyebrows as he said: "Monsieur Herrion, we shall not be unprepared, and we are not so tender with our criminals as you gentlemen across the Channel.
He was a burglar, but some sense that remained in him prevented him from shooting a gendarme who was only doing his duty.
I've been wearing my pins out for three hours waiting on that road, and a gendarme even came and asked me for my papers.
There was a tall creature as bulky as a gendarme leaning against the wall, ready to spring on her husband as soon as he showed himself.
I confide her to your custody," replied Kophetua, after a little hesitation, during which he eyed the gendarme with careful scrutiny.
By this time our zealous gendarme may have spread the news all over the palace.
There the gendarme went out and gathered news of what was passing; on his return the Kings resolve was soon taken.
There was a flash, a sharp report, a cloud of smoke, and thegendarme threw up his hands with a choking cry.
Meanwhile another gendarme held to the middle of the wretched man's hands the glowing spit.
Laughing, Jack Dane assured the gendarme that it was not done with any such object, and Sir Samuel, out of the car by this time, with the indignant Lady Turnour, wanted the conversation translated.
We have been watching you a long way off," said a tall gendarme to the chauffeur, "and to tell the truth we were not happy.
The gendarme was glad to have at least got an answer from her, and continued: "And if I were allowed to dance, I would have one with you right now.
In the empty courtyard, across which somebody hurried every now and then, a solitarygendarme was pacing up and down.
Only when the gendarme said: "If I were allowed to marry, I'd take you.
Ring for the gendarme and have him shut her up in the madhouse.
A gendarme came last night and announced with ponderous importance that we were to be permitted the liberty of the garden if we gave our word of honor not to try to escape.
A man and a woman with two children approached the gendarme deprecatingly.
Signor Squadra," said Pierre, and without a word the gendarme pointed to the stairs.
The gendarme gave me a severe look and went away; but the seductive interest in the work was stronger than his sense of dignity.
Once more the gendarme oscillated from end to end of the platform, yawning, and when he turned round and passed me I could feel that he was ashamed--and that he hated me.
On his way he might stop for a second in front of some peasant woman who had been waiting for the train--but she was only a peasant woman like any other--and so knitting his brows the gendarme would pass on his way.
A little after sunrise on that day, a gendarme came and said, 'The Protestants are wanted at the palace.
Where two sandy wood roads crossed, a mounted gendarme halted them and examined their papers.
The gendarme beside Maryette signalled her to stop; then he got out of the market cart and, lifting the body of the American muleteer in his powerful arms, strode across the road.
The gendarme rose, stepped across to the seat, took the reins gently from the girl.
The big gendarme scratched his chin; then, with an odd glance at the young airman who stood beside him: "To lose a friend is indeed sadder than to lose a lover.
Behind her, flat on the floor of the cart, the airman and the gendarme had seated themselves, with the young man’s body between them.
Carmelo may rest comfortably in the Montemaggiore without the shadow of a gendarme to disturb him!
I approached the nearest gendarme and slipped a five-franc piece into his hand.
The peasant also had done his duty as a French citizen by reporting the affair to the first gendarme he met on his road.
The smiling gendarme at once swooped down on his prey.
The gendarme ran to the spot, and to his intense surprise saw the victim of the accident in the act of taking a hearty drink from his brandy flask while his left hand held a lighted cigar.
The gendarme bowed, handed back the flask, and the train rolled away.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gendarme" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
