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Example sentences for "grisettes"

Lexicographically close words:
gripsack; gris; grisaille; grise; grisette; griseus; griskin; grisled; grisly; grist
  1. You must not serve your apprenticeship in love with grisettes or supernumeraries from the theatre.

  2. But if you are afraid that you are not yet sufficiently enterprising with a great lady, why, my friend, make a beginning with grisettes and actresses.

  3. That was very prudent; grisettes think of everything.

  4. In spite of other advantages, he wishes to shine by these excesses among his fellows and even among the grisettes whose minds are full of sexual matters.

  5. The grisettes of Belfast are among the handsomest ornaments of it; and as good, no doubt, and irreproachable in morals as their sisters in the rest of Ireland.

  6. In the picture, painted in 1857, of the two grisettes lying in the grass on the bank of the Seine he had "intentionally placed the girls in the most unrefined attitudes, that they might appear as trivial as possible.

  7. But they too have gone to their rest with the grisettes of Monnier and Gavarni, and have left the field to the women of Mars and Forain.

  8. In all grisettes there is something of the malevolent mischief of a monkey.

  9. All these grisettes fully understood the fallen majesty of the Chevalier de Valois, and they kept their private familiarities with him a profound secret for his sake.

  10. She compared du Bousquier with that charming chevalier, who had given her nothing, it is true, but who had comprehended her, advised her, and carried all grisettes in his heart.

  11. Then he re-entered the boulevard by the Place de Médicis, dodged a bevy of singing grisettes in male attire, to suddenly find himself face to face with the object of his thoughts.

  12. Unlike the Mimi Pinsons of the Murger era of the quarter, Fouchette was the most notorious of grisettes without being a grisette.

  13. He passes for the uncle of the grisettes at festival times, arranges duels, and dines in the city.

  14. Then, at three o'clock he came home, admired on horseback by the grisettes and the ladies who happened to be at their windows.

  15. Those little grisettes are all alike; that is what they all aspire to; as if when they once had lodgings of their own their fortunes were made.

  16. Of course the grisettes could not be taken with them, and the ties of years were suddenly and rudely to be snapped asunder.

  17. The grisettes are often girls of industry and great good-nature, but the morals of the class are lamentably low.

  18. Those little grisettes sometimes have the presumption to insist on being virtuous.

  19. Seriously, she's one of the prettiest grisettes I ever saw.

  20. His thoughts were all of Diane, and he was not to be cajoled by a couple of grisettes who made advances.

  21. The grisettes suddenly forgot their differences, and began to chat quite amicably.

  22. Meanwhile Müller was casting admiring glances on the young girl in the corner, whilst the fat countrywoman, pursing up her mouth, and watching the grisettes and soldiers, looked the image of offended virtue.

  23. They were a pair of hussies, grisettes born into a sphere of society for which Nature had never intended them.

  24. The little provincial milliners and grisettes replaced, without rendering him obvious of, the little singers and actresses of Paris.

  25. By searching for them, one may still find grisettes in country towns, and Paul de Lavardens sought assiduously.

  26. To be graceful, a woman should be decent, sir, and respectable, sir; and your grisettes are not a whit better than they ought to be!

  27. And I tell you, sir, that your grisettes and lorettes and actresses want grace, that's what they do.

  28. Several times my grisettes had wiped their faces, crying: "'Dieu!

  29. At last the play came to an end, and my grisettes went out; I went with them, still talking, but taking care to fall behind when we passed a cafe.

  30. That is one way of taking our revenge for the capers that mesdames our grisettes play on us.

  31. All women love renown; grisettes are as susceptible to it as other women.

  32. Ignorant as they were of history, the sprightly grisettes of our days had heard of that; their great ambition was to get the five francs that would open the door of Mdlle.

  33. He could not be more so were the grisettes his sisters, and the spectators his father, mother and aunts.

  34. It is the resort of the students and the grisettes proper, and the spectacle is genuine.


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