I asked her if her hors had any name & she called out & said Jack; I then asked her to sing & then she sunge; I asked her yt if she had sung wt Inglish she could then sing French and then she sung that wch they called French.
It seems quaintest of all when, at some Jewish luncheon parties, a tray of hats is actually handed round, and each guest helps himself to a hat as a sort of hors d'oeuvre.
Harry was still hors de combat with the strained tendon in his leg, and I had the beginning of an attack of influenza.
The lamps of the car were hors de combat and a watery moon did not give us sufficient light by which to drive in safety, so we stopped on a hilltop shortly after dark.
They began with hors d'oeuvres and tumblers three parts full of Chianti.
As he rod an honteth, and par-auntre [h]is hors spurnde.
Grekissch hors Synon,' which makes Sinon the name of the horse; and this odd blunder is retained in the editions by Wright, Bell, and Morris.
But he ventures to tell me that pebbles from the sling of simple truth and common sense will ultimately crack my shell, and put me hors de combat.
That wel unnethe it seen was in his chere; But at the yate ther she sholde oute ryde With certeyn folk, he hoved hir tabyde, So wo bigoon, al wolde he nought him pleyne, That on his hors unnethe he sat for peyne.
Whan they un-to the paleys were y-comen Of Troilus, they doun of hors alighte, And to the chambre hir wey than han they nomen.
For whan she gan hir fader fer aspye, Wel neigh doun of hir hors she gan to sye.
God woot if he sat on his hors a-right, Or goodly was beseyn, that ilke day!
A marchant was ther with a forked berd, In mottelee, and highe on hors he sat, And on his hed a Flaundrish bever hat.
Thus he could put two or three of his opponents hors de combat, while, all unarmed, they could not possibly harm him; and so the five surrendered to the one, who marched them before him to his own lines.
Pickled oysters are always served as a hors d'oeuvre.
The King Vortiger went back to lodging, and ever were nigh to him Hors and Hengest.
Together they came, and combated with might; there fell to the ground two and thirty hundred of Hengest's men; and Hors was wounded.
Catiger came there, and with his spear ran him through, and Hors forth-right there wounded Catiger.
Hengest was dear to the king, and to him he gave Lindesey, and he gave Hors treasures enow, and all their knights he treated exceeding well, and thus a good time it stood in the same wise.
I hight Hengest; Hors is my brother; we are of Alemaine, a land noblest of all, of the same end that Angles is named.
Running a quarter-mile race," he continued, "does not place onehors de combat for the afternoon.
As one of these philosophers remarked, "Montague means running in the hurdle race; there is always a possibility of his breaking or straining something in that, and so being hors de combat for the Cup.
Not in struggles before being placed hors de combat, for he had never had a chance to resist.
Faux-Froidure was announced as hors concours in water-colors.
The Franks had lost from four to five hundred men in this skirmish, while of the besieged not more than twenty men had been put hors de combat.
So we had the Hors d'oeuvres, which he brought with him, after the Entree.
We had about two dessert-spoonfuls of soup served in coffee cups, then a little anchovy paste on tiny pieces of toast as a hors d'oeuvre, and one whiting between us three.
And on a day he seighe him biside, Sexti leuedis on hors ride, Gentil and jolif as brid on ris; Nought o man amonges hem ther nis; And ich a faucoun on bond bere, And riden on hauken bi o river.
It is an awful night, blowing and snowing; all the men but two are hors de combat.
Last night a man (for Hadji was horsde combat) brought in some live embers, and heaped some gum tragacanth thorns and animal fuel upon them; there was no chimney, and the hole in the roof was stopped by a clod.
I know which platters I'll use for hors d'oeuvres, I know where I'm going to put the cocktail napkins, and when to start peeling the corn.
If you slice the cooked Roll-Ups crosswise, they make wonderful hors d'oeuvres or appetizers.
For decorative slits, use a favorite hors d'oeuvre or cookie cutter.
Despite the chagrin I felt at being literally hors de combat, I could not at this moment avoid surrendering myself to a feeling of exultation.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hors" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
