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Example sentences for "selle"

Lexicographically close words:
selflessness; selfsame; selig; sell; sella; seller; sellers; selles; selleth; sellin
  1. He told his aunt of the provision for her (Madame Babette's) life, which he would make on the day when he married Mam'selle Cannes.

  2. It was to extract from her, by promises and threats, the real name of Mam'selle Cannes, which would give him a clue to the true appellation of The Faithful Cousin.

  3. The enemy was now holding a strong position along the Selle river, and an attack was arranged for the 20th October in which the whole of the 3rd and 4th Armies were to be engaged.

  4. And I told Ma'm'selle Guion I should look out for the very prettiest girl.

  5. Meanwhile may I see Ma'm'selle de Longueville?

  6. Ma'm'selle Guion has the bravest king of them all," said a neighbor.

  7. Ma'm'selle is a pretty girl and sweet tempered.

  8. I am not going to marry any one, and Ma'm'selle Barbe has a fine young admirer.

  9. Ma'm'selle Barbe brought the two little girls, who looked awestricken at the pale face, where the eyes seemed bigger than ever.

  10. Ma'm'selle Barbe has been, and she says it is so beautiful and gay.

  11. Oh, you must know, you must have guessed that I love Ma'm'selle Renee.

  12. It was quite true that Ma'm'selle Barbe had a lover, a handsome young fellow who was devoted, who came every night with his violin, and when he did not play sang charming French love songs.

  13. Ma'm'selle has not been to Quebec nor Detroit.

  14. Then Renee inspected her room afresh, ran out of doors and gathered a few flowers, as she had seen Ma'm'selle Barbe do.

  15. I do not know until yesterday that you were betrothed to Ma'am'selle O'Leary.

  16. Perhaps ma'am'selle will care no longer to promenade with the wicked man.

  17. Mam'selle shall be entirely safe," he said.

  18. It was Mam'selle Diane who answered him with an emphatic shake of her dark head; an engaging smile tugged at the corners of her lips.

  19. It's because of him I've been here quiet all these weeks as Ma'm'selle Larue.

  20. I'm here under my maiden name, Ma'm'selle Luzanne Larue.

  21. But the cross-eyed one was humility itself, and protested that he could not for all the gold in the bed of the Saskatchewan have lifted a finger to do the dear young Mam'selle any harm.

  22. Perhaps Mam'selle will remember in the house when the good mother told how you would like to marry Pepin, and he said you would not do.

  23. She is driving on the ice with ma'm'selle Lotbiniere and her brother Charles.

  24. Why Ma'm'selle Duvarney does this or that is not for muddy brains like ours.

  25. But what would ma'm'selle have thought if Gabord was found dead with a hole in his neck--behind?

  26. And she it was who had Governor send me here--even Ma'm'selle Duvarney.

  27. But what say you to Ma'm'selle Duvarney coming to him that day, and again yesterday with Gabord?

  28. Me, I go back to bed an' Mamma Jeanne suspec' it might be I flirt with the M'am'selle by dark!

  29. I hear M'am'selle Ygerne laugh like it's fon!

  30. So instead of going to the station in the hearse, I went with Mam'selle in the trolley car.

  31. It's he that fetched Ma'm'selle Sophie to the hitching-post.

  32. She said not a word, and the silence was broken only by Mam'selle Pauline's continued sobs.

  33. Mam'selle Pauline was terribly excited; the flush that throbbed into her pale, nervous face showed it; and she locked her thin fingers in and out incessantly.

  34. With the enthusiasm of a young artist she drew from the keys strains that seemed marvelously beautiful to Mam'selle Pauline, who stood enraptured near her.

  35. But that night, in the stillness of the room, Mam'selle Pauline sobbed and would not be comforted.

  36. Then Ma'ame Pelagie rose with stately deliberation and went to saddle her horse, for she had yet to make her last daily round through the fields; and Mam'selle Pauline threaded her way slowly among the tangled grasses toward the cabin.

  37. Mam'selle Pauline had been touched by the re-creation of Valmet.

  38. Moreover, two serious obstacles in the shape of rivers completely crossed the Divisional front--namely, the river Selle and the river Ecaillon.

  39. On the right the 4th Gordon Highlanders, by improvising rough bridges from beams, branches, and straw, crossed the river Selle south of Fleury, and at 6.

  40. Indeed, orders captured during the forthcoming operations showed that the troops had been instructed to hold the line of the river Selle at all costs.

  41. Meanwhile the bridges thrown across the Selle were only sufficient for field-guns and horsed transport.

  42. You please to know dat madame open her eyes lillie time ago, and know mam'selle and Dinah.

  43. Madame and mam'selle must fly and hide themselves!

  44. If anyone ask her, den she say: 'Mover bery sad at house being burnt down and madame and mam'selle run away.

  45. Mam'selle hab gone to sleep again," she said; "now we can talk quiet.

  46. What madame and Mam'selle Myra do widout Dinah?

  47. Don't you whisper word to Mam'selle Myra 'bout dese tings, Marse Glober.

  48. Now dat de slabes are masters, for suah dey not want to go near dat place, and neber dream dat Madame and Mam'selle Myra know of dat place and go and hide dere.

  49. Mam'selle must slip into de bush, now she got dat gown on, no one s'pect her being white a little way off.

  50. Mam'selle hab brown eyes and dark hair, and me make her regular little mulatto girl.

  51. So they were forst to selle of some of their provissions to stop this gape, which was some 3.

  52. The enemy apparently had determined to make their first stand on the line of the Selle river, a very definite obstacle.

  53. It was necessary for the tanks to cross the Selle by a specially-constructed bridge.

  54. On the 10th Le Cateau fell, and by the 13th the British had gained the west bank of the Selle as far north as Haspres.

  55. By the 10th the advance had been carried to the line of the Selle river, on which the Germans made another stand, while farther south the French pushing east of St. Quentin, cleared the Oise-Sambre canal as far north as Bernot.

  56. Did Ma'm'selle Slut not wait at table in this house and lead the men a dance here night and day-day and night till I found it out!

  57. His wife and Ma'm'selle Zoe, they didn't know a good thing when they had it.

  58. And is to mene to men That on this moolde lyven, Who so wole be pure parfit Moot possession forsake, Or selle it, as seith the Book, And the silver dele To beggeris that goon and begge 7120 And bidden good for Goddes love.


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