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homme d'esprit awm des-pree adjective a witty man 1768A Sentimental JourneyC'est bien vrai, said he.—But in this case I should only exchange one disquietude for another, and with loss: figure to yourself, my dear Sir, that in giving you a chaise which would fall to pieces before you had got half-way to Paris—figure to yourself how much I should suffer, in giving an ill impression of myself to a man of honour, and lying at the mercy, as I must do, d'un homme d'esprit.1903Calvert of Strathore'Ah! Monsieur,' she said to him, with a languishing glance out of her brilliant eyes and a smile that displayed a row of wonderfully white teeth, 'Monsieur de Lafayette tells me that you are un homme d'esprit.'Labels: Carter Goodloe, Laurence Sterne
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