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Débonnaire
"Débonnaire" in a Sentence (18 examples)
I look up, and discern him perched in a cherry-tree, chanting loud in the innocent lightness of his spirits, and greeting me with a débonnaire ‘Bonjour, mademoiselle.’
Why, poor Jules was a débonnaire young fellow like me the other day,—peaceable, laborious; […]
He explains in a débonnaire way the motive of his intrusion. […] The amount is eleven hundred and odd pounds, and in the event of Mrs. Westray not being ready to pay that sum, the débonnaire gentleman is hero to take possession of the aforesaid furniture by his minion, the man with the sleek hat.
He went off to the mills as he spoke, walking with quite a débonnaire manner, for he knew she was watching him from the window.
“Oh,” said the other, in a débonnaire manner, “he’s no heart.[…]”
“So do I, dear,” confessed Lady Flashe, a well-known society hostess who looked a débonnaire five-and-twenty, whilst a pitiless “Peerage” chronicled her age at forty-three.
With a splendid effort of self-control, Eustace assumed a débonnaire manner.
As I turned away, heart-broken and in tears, a tall, stately, robust gentlemen came, I must not say swaggering, but lounging in, with a débonnaire grace, as if the place belonged to him—as indeed it did, for it was Charles Kemble himself!
As a matter of history, some of the rapidest men in the University were not vicious, if scarcely paragons of virtue, while not a few combined with high spirits and a débonnaire disposition considerable brain power.
The Frenchman, moreover, in a much greater degree than the men or women of other nationalities, is possessed of a débonnaire self-confidence which has played so great a part in the history and literature of France that it is impossible to pass it over in silence.
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It is quite likely that a débonnaire and handsome man of fifty-something should be captivated by her charm of manner, for is she not Miss [Ethel] Irving?
It seems that her mother was a very great lady before her marriage with a débonnaire young adventurer outside the charmed circle and that this lady mother taught her instead of sending her to school.
As he swerved slightly to miss us, he intrusted his life—and ours—to one of his hands, while with the other he gave us a débonnaire salute.
The venerable theme of a husband and wife gone emotionally stale and advised by a débonnaire Charles Hawtrey to try divorce as a means of regaining their lost taste for each other was here laboriously deleted of its original virtues, given a fricassee of meek epigrams, and served up by a company of actors who toed the footlights like so many champing distance runners and suddenly let go each of their lines as if on pistol cues.
With a remonstrance in every finger[-]tip, a débonnaire Frenchman was laughingly upbraiding his fellow for giving him bad advice.
He made an uncertain halt, a débonnaire figure, twirling his folded pince-nez by its silken lanyard, well-pleased with himself and indifferent if all the world knew it.
“I guess the warm weather makes the sap run,” remarked a débonnaire police chief while surveying the weekend quota of vandalism in an eastern town.
It was a débonnaire crowd that followed Raoul that Christmas eve, a crowd who thought no prank too wild to play on an unsuspecting community, and whose sole aim seemed to be to get out of life all the fun that could be extracted without any thought of the consequences.
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