lourdaud

Yet it is one of history's or geography's ironies that the Frenchman goes on his way, neither knowing nor wanting to know the blond beasts over the Rhine -- "Jamais un lourdaud quoiqu'il fasse" .. the young sculptor must have smiled when he tacked that verse on the wall of his prison!

Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905

Stealthily I took the chain and the key from about the neck of the sleeping lourdaud, and then drew near her on tiptoe.

A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

The lourdaud, that was their captain, carried the pannier, and, laughing, we crossed the street and the moat, giving the word "Bedford."

A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

Then I hung the chain and key again on the neck of the lourdaud; I put some of the fallen coins in the men's pouches, but bestowed the dice and tablier in my wallet.

A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

It could scarce be that she slept, but she lay like one dead, only shuddering when the lourdaud, the captain of the guard, smote her on the shoulder, asking, in English, how she did?

A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878

Parmi les courtisans qui admiraient l'esprit du jeune homme quand il n'avait encore que neuf ans, se trouvait un lourdaud qui dit en sa présence: "Quand les enfants ont tant d'esprit, ils deviennent ordinairement stupides dans un âge avancé.

French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

Jamais un lourdaud quoiqu'il fosse, ne saurait passer pour gallant. "

Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905

"This is better stuff," says the lourdaud, "than our English ale.

A Monk of Fife Andrew Lang 1878