Les Huit Maisons, where it remained in temporary billets until dusk when it advanced to Croix Barbée, Battalion Headquarters occupying a house at the corner of Loretto and Edward Roads.
On relief the Battalion occupied billets as training battalion at Fosse, C Company being detached in hutments at Les Huit Maisons.
Catlin, auquel un sejour de huit annees parmi ces diverses peuplades a permis de s'initier d'une maniere complete a leurs moeurs et a leurs habitudes.
It now contains the bodies of Louis Dix-huit and the Duc de Berri, and is completely bricked up.
The arrival of the 5th Seaforth Highlanders was most timely, and considerably relieved the pressure, the garrison being able to retain its hold on Huit Maisons for another three hours.
Brigade had established its headquarters near La Croix Marmuse, where its battalions were waiting for guides from the units which they were to relieve in Huit Maisons and Lacouture--the Corps Cyclists and King Edward's Horse.
They reached Huit Maisons, two platoons of the leading company reinforcing the cavalry garrison there, while two platoons lay in support of them.
In fact, it was not until Le Marais post had fallen, and the enemy appeared to be surrounding Huit Maisons, that the garrison fell back in face of heavy enfilade machine-gun fire and bombing.
Certainly no one can call Louis Dix-huit ‘only a gentleman.
But Louis Dix-huit appears to be the choice of France.
Three weeks afterwards the allied sovereigns entered Paris once more, and Louis Dix-huit returned in their wake.
But I fear the government of Louis Dix-huit is not either wise or strong.
DIX-HUIT (popular), shoe made up of different parts of old ones.
SAISE XVI the sixtenth saisiéme DIX SEPT XVII the sevententh dix septiésme DIX HUIT XVIII the eightenth dishuitiésme.
Mil is used in Christian era, l’an Mil huit cent, 1800.
Dix-huit Mois a St. Petersburgh," see Works of Dumas.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "huit" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
