While his servant was fetching the sedan my lord put on his laced hat and lingered on the step.
At about breakfast-time he started to go down in his sedan chair nearer the scene of action.
Instead of carriages the more wealthy inhabitants use sedan chairs, which are usually borne by two bearers.
Since Sedan little has been done in France to further the doctrine of nationalities.
Several times as I was going about in a sedan chair I looked out suddenly, and each time there was a dark face somewhere in the street behind.
If I had known what it was going to be like I would have hired a sedan chair, and had myself carried down.
After his hurt had been dressed, the Queen sent her sedan chair to convey him to his residence.
I think there are two private coaches in Nice, besides that of the commandant: but there are sedan chairs, which may be had at a reasonable rate.
In sixteenth-century Spain, home of the sedan and the caballero galante, the original term was bracciere.
Prince Kraft says: "At Sedan the divisional cavalry were employed during the battle, charging by single squadrons, patrolling and reconnoitering to obtain information of the enemy and the ground.
He also says: "At Sedan the cavalry division was kept in reserve.
On the twenty-fifth anniversary of Sedan he delivered an address in the University of Berlin which struck his fond disciples dumb.
The fortress of Sedan is to be immediately placed at the disposition (of the Germans) exactly as it stands.
Imagine a prospecting outfit in the California Sierra or the West Australian bush with sedan chairs!
In fact, Sedan was hurried on because Paris could not be trusted: there was no sincerity in the ex-Emperor's professions and concessions.
At whatever cost, it was necessary last July 'to do something,' and at Sedan the ex-Emperor judged rightly that he had better fall into Prussian hands than trust to feelings which even his uncle had not ventured to rely on.
The poor men were mowed down at Sedan by shells from such a distance that they could not see whence they were fired, simply because it was 'useless' for Napoleon to go to Paris.
By the evening of the 30th its routed divisions had been re-formed in front of Sedan behind the defensive line of the Chiers, the huge German forces gathering all round and hemming in their intended victim.
The disgrace of a second Sedan flashed across the mind of the French commander, and in a paroxysm of despair he shot himself, unable to brave the impending peril.
The king's sedan now stopped, and Catharine hastened forward with smiling face, to assist her royal husband in alighting.
But those who fear to trust themselves to the ancient and tottering Biblical bridge, will hardly get into the sedan chair of obsolete orthodoxy, and add the weight of that to the danger.
Through the dark night, amidst a heavy downpour of rain, the men toiled along the heavy roads in great confusion, and reached Sedan at nine next morning.
His army was massed under the walls ofSedan in a valley known as the Sink of Givonne,[135] in a sort of horse-shoe line, concave to the enemy.
You will remember that the Germans managed to surround a large French army at Sedan and force it to surrender.
Titled dames, in their sedan chairs, carried by liveried servants, alighted amid much bowing and flourishing of attendant gallants.
They put me in a police sedan and drove about eight blocks and turned into an enclosed courtyard through a gray stone arch.
I turned just in time to see a dark blue sedan approaching at a high rate of speed.
A dark blue sedan was parked at the head of the driveway, facing out.
Another black object loomed up--a larger car--the sedan Lane recognized.
It leered as the luxurious sedan swayed from side to side, a diabolical thing with speed.
The students flocked to the Academies of Sedan and Saumur, and soon two schools of divinity flourished opposed to each other, that of Sedan upholding orthodoxy, while that of Saumur became the nucleus of French latitudinarianism.
Their adversaries were utterly unready for a great struggle; the French army was in a wretched state in every sense of the word; indeed, after Sedan there remained hardly any regulars able to take the field.
During the month of fighting from the 2nd of August to the 1st of September the regular armies of France had suffered defeat on defeat, and were now blockaded in Metz or were tramping from the catastrophe of Sedan to captivity in Germany.
That this was scarcely true as regarded French regulars the annals of every battle of the Franco-German War up to and including Sedan conclusively show.
But a still more amusing specimen of this figure of speech was supplied by an honest Highlander, in the days of sedan chairs.
For the benefit of my young readers I may describe the sedan chair as a comfortable little carriage fixed to two poles, and carried by two men, one behind and one before.
There were rugs on the floor and a number of chairs with painted crests on the backs, and in a corner was an old sedan chair, its poles upright against the wall.
One lady of our party, who had four bearers to carry her in a Sedan chair, found her head swim as she crossed.
After Sedanhe proclaimed the Republic and organised the national defences, leaving Paris, then invested by the Germans, in a balloon.
After the battle of Sedan he was made member of the Committee of National Defence, and in '76 of the Senate, of which he became vice-president in '79.
But the men that fell out on the march to Sedan and in the passes of the Pyrenees were physically incapable of further effort.
When the German armies, suddenly changing direction from west to north, pushed on to Sedan by forced marches, large numbers of the infantry succumbed to pure exhaustion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sedan" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: automobile; car; litter
