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homme d'esprit awm des-pree adjective a witty man 1768Laurence SterneA 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.1903Carter GoodloeCalvert 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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jactitation jak-tuh-TAY-shuhn noun restlessness; twitching; an untrue claim at the expense of someone else 1759Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman—It has not only been a question, Captain Shandy, amongst the best lawyers and civilians in this land, continued Kysarcius, 'Whether the mother be of kin to her child,'—but, after much dispassionate enquiry and jactitation of the arguments on all sides—it has been adjudged for the negative—namely, 'That the mother is not of kin to her child.'1995Patrick O'BrianThe Commodore'Well, sir, this is the second day of the first stadium, and we may expect a diminution of the animal heat—increasing restlessness and jactitation.Labels: Laurence Sterne, Patrick O'Brian
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eleemosynary e-li-MAW-sen-aer-ee adjective supported by charitable means 1759Laurence Sterne The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy, Gentleman'Twas by a poor ass, who had just turned in with a couple of large panniers upon his back, to collect eleemosynary turnip-tops and cabbage-leaves…1851Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of Seven GablesUncle Venner's pig was fed entirely, and kept in prime order, on these eleemosynary contributions…1855Walt WhitmanLeaves of GrassDown, down, proud gorge!-though choking thee; | Thy bearded throat and high-borne forehead to the gutter; | Crouch low thy neck to eleemosynary gifts.1909Agnes Deans CameronThe New NorthSitting low among the 'pieces' of the police boat, with only his head visible in the sunset glow, Dr. Sussex builds air-castles of that eleemosynary hospital of his on the Arctic Circle.Labels: Agnes Deans Cameron, Laurence Sterne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Walt Whitman
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