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I am alone but for the petite-fille (granddaughter), but I love the English, for they save my home and my dear country I heard a good many stories of this kind off and on, but this particular one, I think, brought home, to me at least, the general beastliness of the Hun closer than ever before.— A Yankee in the Trenches
Surely, brethren, these things ought not so to be A CONVINCING PROOF Miss D. had the misfortune to become what the language of our neighbours delicately expresses by the compound word fille-mčre_, and wished to bestow, or rather to force, the honours of paternity on the prince.— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 17, No. 477, February 19, 1831
Yet the minstrel added a new peroration Sang Sir Gregory Ma voix mocque, mon cuer gיmit Peu pense א ce que la voix dit Car me membre du temps jadis Et d'ung garson, d'amour surpris Et d'une fille--et la vois si Et grandement suis esbahi And when Darrell had ended, the Countess of Farrington, without speaking, swept her left hand toward her cheek and by pure chance caught between thumb and forefinger the autumn-numbed fly that had annoyed her.— Chivalry
His blanche-fille, of course, died of hopeless love for the conquering Frenchman, her father's murderer.— The Newcomes
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