Was my grisette simply an adventuress, graced by a hired mother to give her an air of respectability?
The grisette seems instinctively to know that the presence of an old woman about a young one exerts an unhealthy influence.
I was terribly alarmed lest the grisette and her companion should continue their route, but they got out at the station.
A well-approved description of a grisette should commence with her foot.
Doubtless she was some relative; for a grisette never has a companion, and duennas pertain exclusively to Spanish infantas.
The grisette is the Andalouse of Paris; she possesses the talent of being able to pass through the mire of Lutetia on tiptoe, like a dancer who studies her steps, without soiling her white stockings with a single speck of mud.
And the interview of the lady and the grisette began in this fashion.
Cardoville felt during this conversation, or rather during this monologue of the grisette on the subject of the attempted suicide.
The ambitious grisette asked with a timid air for a moment's interview with Madame Granson, who took her at once into her bedchamber.
To hide her astonishment, she assumed the melancholy pose of an injured girl at the mercy of her seducer; inwardly she was laughing like a grisette at her clever trick.
Grisette and stage super, in spite of her youth she must have tried many trades.
Diane chose her gown and got through her dressing with the alacrity of a grisette who is her own waiting-woman.
Rigolette, the prettiest grisette in the Quartier du Temple.
The one black eye of the maimed grisette saw only Mlle.
The unhappy grisette felt this from the sympathetic hand of the young man slipped into hers at parting.
Jean Marot knew very well the type of grisette indigenous to the Quartier Latin.
They were read by the simple-hearted grisette thus: It could only be love or hate; since it is not hate, it is love!
Madeleine was on her feet in an instant, but Fouchette's right foot caught her on the point of the chin, and the stout grisettewent down like a log.
Fouchette's face gave way to confusion when the grisette quickly shifted her ground.
Fouchette had been spared the knowledge of the real cause of Madeleine's misfortune,--the jealous grisette whom she had set on to worse than murder.
Even as he spoke he grabbed a sheet and a blanket from a cot in the corner, snatched a hat belonging to Massard's grisette from the wall, bundled the girl's clothes around the body the best he could, and ran to the window.
The stranger hailed a hackney carriage which was passing, and, helping the grisette in and pushing O'Hara after her, he mounted beside the coachman, and drove in the direction of the Place before the gate of Notre Dame.
Caroline,' the grisette again murmured, and dropped off with glassy eyes into a tranced sleep, irregularly punctuated with sighs.
The crowd immediately gathered round the fainting grisetteas she lay in the arms of our friend, forgetting, in their eagerness for this fresh excitement, the morbid spectacle on the slab.
How finely he has portrayed the grisetteof the period, with her following of young tradesmen and poor students!
He cannot draw a grisette without seeing her with David's eyes.
Whilst thegrisette is awaiting the coming of Germain, we will allow the reader to overhear the conversation of the prisoners who remained there after the departure of Nicholas Martial.
Retreating from the fresh arrival as far as she could, the grisette leaned her back against the wall, and once more relapsed into her mournful ruminations.
At the sight of the grisette the face of this man brightened up, and assumed an expression of benevolence.
Although she had become Madame Germain, and Rudolph had settled on her forty thousand francs, Rigolette had not been willing (and her husband was of the same opinion) to change her grisette cap for a hat.
Retreating as far as she could from her new neighbors, the grisette leaned against the wall, and abandoned herself to her sad thoughts.
Humiliating as it is to say so of one's heroine, the black-eyed grisette was a hundred times more to his taste than the blue-eyed lady.
It was the vulgarity and brazenness of the New York grisette breaking out, or the spangles and sawdust of the circus-rider.
Have you ever noticed a grisette tripping along the street?
A grisette may love according to her fancy, that is intelligible enough, but you have a pretty fortune, a family, a name and a place at Court, and you ought not to fling them out of the window.
I would be a grisette for you, and a queen for everyone besides.
As he called, a little grisette who was hanging out clothes to dry kissed her hand to the boy.
A grisette advanced smiling, and was sent away charmed with the gifts a pleasant future held in store.
No longer was she the little grisette with the cock-nose and the wide mouth, but a tragedy queen pronouncing a malediction.
The beautiful grisette measured them one by one across my hand.
The beautiful grisette looked sometimes at the gloves, then sideways to the window, then at the gloves,--and then at me.
In a few minutes the grisette came in with her box of lace.
The beautiful grisetterose up when I said this, and going behind the counter, reach'd down a parcel and untied it: I advanced to the side over against her: they were all too large.
I was sensible the beautiful grisettehad not asked above a single livre above the price.
With due deference to those gentlemen, we maintain that the grisette still exists and always will exist in Paris.
Your liaison with this grisette doesn't displease me at all.
Just an ordinary face, I am sure; one of those affected little minxes--the grisette who wants to be followed; I know all about it.
The more one drinks, the more one talks, unless one happens to be melancholy in one's cups, and my grisette was not so constituted.
Because you looked so comical, polking with that grisette just now.
Why in the devil did that provoking grisette take up her abode in my house?
And haven't you made any attempt to see that fascinating grisette again?
Rosette had called upon me several times; but my pretty grisette talked too much about Monsieur Freluchon, the dealer in sponges; which led me to think that our relations would not last much longer.
John briefly, but with no, sort of hauteur: he seemed quite to understand the Rosine or grisette character.
Smart, trim and pert, she stood, a hand in each pocket of her gay grisette apron, eyeing Dr.
The day before yesterday I saw the young grisette in the street; when she found that I was walking behind her, she pretended to make a misstep; then she stopped and clung to me to keep from falling.
A grisette who passed him one day said, "What a nice strong widower!
The grisette and her companion then entered Mother Bouvard's shop.
Good, good; if thegrisette and the pretended clerk meddle with what does not concern them, we know where to find them.
The face of the grisette was absolutely unknown to her; nevertheless, from that moment she paid great attention to the conversation.
Like some of the free prostitutes, the grisette does not live only on the support of her lover.
When the grisette acts as her lover's housekeeper and lives with him on terms of the closest intimacy, the liaison takes a more serious character and there is a certain degree of affection or even love.
Relations with a grisette may be compared to limited and free marriage, in which there is comparative fidelity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "grisette" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
