vivandiere

• Diantre! It is not like France to leave him a Corporal Vireflau listened attentively--a short, lean, black-visaged campaigner, who yet relaxed into a grim half-smile as the vivandiere addressed him with that air, as of a generalissimo addressing a subordinate, which always characterized Cigarette the more strongly the higher the grade of her companion or opponent Always eloquent, pretty one!" —  Under Two Flags
• But we learn things without being told in camp; and I know well enough he is here to save someone else, in someone's place; it is a sacrifice, look you, that nails him down to this martyrdom Her auditor was silent; she thought as the vivandiere thought, but the pride in her, the natural reticence and reserve of her class, made her shrink from discussing the history of one whom she knew--shrink from having any argument on his past or future with a saucy, rough, fiery young camp-follower, who had broken thus unceremoniously on her privacy. —  Under Two Flags
• "That's as good as dear Caron, the vivandiere of the Third Corps. —  The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker
• The vivandiere was by instinct a fine political economist. —  Under Two Flags
• He bowed to her with the old grace of manner that had so amused and amazed the little vivandiere. —  Under Two Flags

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