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Example sentences for "sang froid"

  • All this was accomplished, before his antagonist could turn to attack him; and the sang froid exhibited in the act, along with the graceful equitation, completely restored the confidence of his supporters.

  • Without appearing to notice the effect which his speech had produced, he coolly quaffed off the wine; and with like sang froid, returned the empty goblet to the giver.

  • Now with all the Sang Froid of your profession you tell me, that not only I shall not be permitted to repair my rooms (which was at first agreed to) but that I shall not even be indemnified for my present expence.

  • Still preserving my sang froid, I sat down in one of the garden seats on the terrace, and opened the book which I had lifted at random from the drawing-room table.

  • Santley was again dominated by his supernatural sang froid' his supreme self-control.

  • As matters stand now, I can arrange everything with coolness and sang froid, for I am really the master of the situation.

  • But after a moment of hostile confrontation the professional impassivity of a waiter--which is perhaps the ultimate perfection of sang froid--descended about him like a cloak and mask.

  • But he undoubtedly had sang froid, for he concealed his confusion, or most of it, and said: "Let me turn the other cheek.

  • He had never thought of himself as possessed of any exceptional sang froid.

  • His sang froid, however, did not quite forsake him, for the Cockney possessed considerable presence of mind-- the offspring of an infinite superciliousness.

  • Mr Vaughan was endeavouring to appear collected, and to say something; but his sang froid was assumed and unnatural; and being unable to keep up the conversation, an ominous silence succeeded.

  • There's no mistake in the matter, girls," replied their friend, with her accustomed sang froid.

  • His characteristic sang froid, that peculiar rigidity of the lips, that faint furrow in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows, and the gravity of the somewhat languid face, made the metamorphosis complete.

  • Never had Maria had to exercise such self-control as now, when, gazing through the window into the night, she watched with the utmost sang froid the distant conflagration which was lighting up the room.

  • Swiftly, but with the utmost sang froid, he made his preparations.

  • But something told me that the exquisite creature could not but admire the sang froid of a youth who would let his boat drift while he stood up and took a picture of the thundering cataract over which it was about to plunge.

  • I tried to continue registering nonchalance and sang froid, but accomplished an only too literal rendition of the latter.

  • Possibly if I had not wasted valuable time displaying my sang froid I might have worried the Mule over in that direction, and headed right for a clean run through.

  • I have always been a great believer in whistling to keep up ebbing courage; not necessarily a blowing of air through pursed lips, but any easy and spontaneous action to show nonchalance and sang froid in the face of danger.

  • A little sang froid, my boy--you know: all of life is a play.

  • Markworth, quite himself again, and with his usual coolness and sang froid, "and you must help me.

  • Tom sadly deplored the absence of Markworth, for he was so well used to the campaigner, and had such nerve and sang froid that he was capable of even turning her out of her own carriage.

  • Markworth, after counting them over carefully, pocketed the notes with the utmost sang froid.


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