There is a good deal in it which makes us think that Prévost had read Defoe, and something which makes it not extravagant to fancy that Thackeray had read Prévost.
He followed Prévost in Nouveaux Mémoires d'un Homme de Qualité as he had followed Marivaux in the Paysan Perverti.
Rousseau may not, in one sense, go beyond that life in Julie, but in touching it he is almost as limited and exclusive as Prévost in his masterpiece.
We have seen that Prévost attempted a sort of quasi-historical novel.
He meets Manon (Prévost has had the wits to make her a little older than her lover), and actum est de both of them.
One wonders how Prévost came to write anything so admirable as Manon Lescaut; one wonders how Crébillon came to write anything so insufficient as the two books just criticised, and even others.
No, she must go at once to Mein Herr von Vost and tell him alone, begging him to let no one know what she had heard, but to prevent the mischief the men threatened, as if by accident.
Mein Herr von Vost put it into my head himself," said a man's gruff voice, in answer to some question.
Prévost was ordonnateur, or intendant, at Louisbourg.
Miss Vost and yourself are the victims of a misunderstanding.
He wanted to have a little talk with Miss Vost before she saw Bobbie.
Miss Vost lifted both of Peter's hands, and one was still blue from the back-fire of the automatic.
Had Miss Vost been a susceptible young woman, it is safe to assume that Bobbie MacLaurin would not have accepted command of the Hankow from tide-water to that remote Chinese city, Ching-Fu.
He told me----" Miss Vost opened her eyes on a look that was hurt and humiliated.
Miss Vost was praying, praying for courage, for help.
But he let you go; and he and his thousand sharpshooters who lined the great, green walls, when you and Captain MacLaurin and Miss Vost galloped bravely out, with one poor little mule!
Don't you dare call him a young pup, Robert MacLaurin," retorted Miss Vost resentfully.
Elbow to elbow, glancing down at the hissing water, Miss Vost and Peter stood for a number of sweet, meditative moments in silence.
Peter remarked to himself that somehow Miss Vost did not seem to be the daughter of a missionary, nor was the costly way she dressed in key with her remark.
While MacLaurin pulled a silver dollar from his pocket and spun it to the anxious coolie, Miss Vost turned with the warmest of smiles to Peter.
Whether Prévost aimed at it or not, he hit the white in Manon as certainly and unmistakably as he lost his arrows elsewhere.
Prévost and Sallé were contemporaries and rivals, each with a great and ardent supporting faction.
Introduced at court, her triumph so affected Prévost that she discontinued her pupil’s instruction.
The same artistic instinct which we see in Defoe and in Borrow’s quasi autobiographic work is exhibited by the Abbé Prévost in “Manon Lescaut.
The Abbé Prévost was found in the forest of Chantilly perfectly insensible.
Prévost only became conscious to feel aware of the horror of the death by which he perished.
The "prévost des marchands" and other members of the municipal government received him with great demonstrations of joy, as the defender of the faith.
Le Prévost and Bourdon say was demolished in 1807.
Le Prévost and Bourdon that in 1804 the Château of Aubevoye and its tower no longer existed, and that Mme.
This solitary pistol-shot, resounding across the ocean as the signal of many hundred thousand terrible volleys, deeply affected the friends and companions of Prévost Paradol's youth.
Hippolyte Prévost was chief of the stenographic staff, and in that capacity had apartments in the Legislative Palace.
Prévost corrected the proof, and the messenger was sent off.
Mademoiselle de Prévost had predicted that his daughter would be his glory and his fortune.
Mademoiselle de Prévost swore that she would ruin her youthful rival; but it was too late.
César Prévost is fortunate in a very elastic temperament.
Six months from now, the firm of Prévost and Meavy, established to-day, will begin business together.
César Prévost shall not be piqued at your incredulity.
César Prévost had used the language above quoted, and with such empressement of manner, that my attention was diverted from his wares to himself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vost" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
