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Example sentences for "gris"

Lexicographically close words:
gripper; gripping; grippit; grips; gripsack; grisaille; grise; grisette; grisettes; griseus
  1. The body of Le Gris was delivered to the public executioner, who dragged it on a hurdle to the gibbet of Montfaucon, where it was hung in chains.

  2. Any case, he knows the 'gris is not his, in the end.

  3. She had given Brander the chance to reassure her, speaking of the 'gris and of Dan'l Tobey's suspicions in the matter.

  4. Last cruise, the Betty Howe, out of Port Russell, picked up a sizable chunk of 'gris not a week before we touched the grounds.

  5. He said to Noll casually, one day: "The 'gris will make this a fat cruise, sir.

  6. He would not say, forthright, that the 'gris belonged to the Sally.

  7. As Pattie obtained his discharge in 1813, he must have yielded his command to Lieutenant John McNair, brother of Thomas, who was stationed at Cap-au-Gris during the latter part of the war.

  8. Cap-au-Gris is situated on the Mississippi a few miles above the mouth of Cuivre River.

  9. The gris de Menton, the gris d'Annot of the Basses Alps, and the gris d'Embrun of Chaillot appear in Switzerland as the gris de Taveyannaz.

  10. To this priest I had made some handsome presents, and he, in return, gave me twelve gris gris, and assured me that they would inevitably secure me from all danger, at the same time he gave me directions how to dispose of them.

  11. From there, after the usual discussion about the enemy and the disadvantages and peculiarities of our new sector, we proceeded viâ Gris Pot and La Vesée to a junction of roads a few hundred yards south of the latter place.

  12. Gris Pot and La Vesée, had already taken over, as extra company in the subsidiary line, from a company of the 2/4th South Lancashire Regiment.

  13. The first line extended from Folkestone C to Cape Gris Nez D.

  14. The first line extended from Folkestone to Cape Gris Nez, and the second line about seven miles to the westward of these points (see Fig.

  15. Gris Il en a vu de grises = He had an unpleasant time of it.

  16. My nerves, which had grown tranquil since Yeux-gris came to my rescue, quivered anew.

  17. Yeux-gris stared at him, neither in fear nor in fury, but in utter stupefaction.

  18. I could creep up-stairs and mayhap stab Yeux-gris before they were aware of my coming.

  19. I started like a guilty thing, remembering what Yeux-gris had told me and I, wrapped in my petty troubles, had forgotten.

  20. In his place I would have gone and killed Yeux-gris with my own hands.

  21. I do not think he is lying," Yeux-gris said.

  22. Yeux-gris cried out: "You dare not send that man, Gervais.

  23. To my surprise, Yeux-gris and Lucas were still engaged.

  24. It should have been my business to keep a still tongue and go kill Yeux-gris myself.

  25. While we had worked side by side over Yeux-gris he seemed to have forgotten that he was my enemy.

  26. As I rose, Yeux-gris turned his head toward me.

  27. The latter was almost trampling on me, Yeux-gris had pressed him so close to the wall.

  28. They did not succeed in heading the Dutch before they rounded Cape Gris Nez, and by dark Tromp anchored his whole force, now in great confusion, in Calais Roads.

  29. The place of this collision was somewhere between the South Sand Head, the most southerly point of the Goodwin Sands, and Cape Gris Nez on the coast of France.

  30. The English were to the north of their enemy, and they steered so as, if possible, to head him before he reached Cape Gris Nez and so cut his road home.


  31. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gris" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.