abbe's

The abbe's machine was a sort of gondola, seven feet long and about two feet deep.

Wonderful Balloon Ascents

He obviously disliked his little abbe's dress, and we always kept saying, "It's only for the time being, my little fellow."

Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

In spite of the abbe's poetical extravagance, Madame de

In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

But bad writers are always the most shameless intruders on the time of good critics, and we find Diderot willingly spending hours over the abbe's handwriting, which was as wretched as what he wrote, and then spending hours more in offering critical observations on verses that were only fit to be thrown into the fire.

Diderot and the Encyclopaedists Morley, John, 1838-1923 1905

Maurice Joval, who had orders to bring her to the abbe's house -- that, and no more.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

All the human affection of the good abbe's life centred upon Iberville.

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

At this he got to his feet, came over, laid a hand on the abbe's shoulder, and his voice softened: "Abbe, the woman shall be mine."

The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

And it is curious to observe how unerringly the abbe's thoughts aspire, from no matter what remote and low-lying starting-point, to the loftiest niceties of religion and the high thin atmosphere of ethics.

The Queen Pedauque Anatole France 1884

Guillaume Froment, a savant of lofty intelligence, a chemist who lived apart from others, like one who rebelled against the social system, was now a parishioner of the abbe's, and when the latter passed the house where Guillaume lived with his three sons -- a house all alive with work -- he must often have dreamt of leading him back to God.

The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

Guillaume Froment, a savant of lofty intelligence, a chemist who lived apart from others, like one who rebelled against the social system, was now a parishioner of the abbe's, and when the latter passed the house where Guillaume lived with his three sons -- a house all alive with work -- he must often have dreamt of leading him back to God.

The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Complete ��mile Zola 1871