Mignonne

The jealous mistress was constantly threatening to stab her lover, and he dubbed her Mignonne, by antiphrasis; in memory of her he gave the same name to the panther.

Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

A poem such as Mignonne, allons voir si la rose has all the freshness and fragrance of a summer day at dawn; it is impossible to contemplate it with intelligent interest as a specimen of sixteenth-century poetry; we might as well try to refuse to be thrilled by the coming of spring because the spring happens to be a million years old.

Introduction 1920

"Mignonne," because her jealousy was so furious that throughout the whole period of their intercourse he lived in dread of the knife with which she threatened him.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

'Mignonne' has double pink flowers, yet is still fragrant.

Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

He seemed to have found a friend in the boundless desert, and, half-unconsciously, his mind reverted to his old sweetheart whom he had, in derision, nicknamed "Mignonne."

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

On awakening Mignonne was absent; he climbed the hillock and afar off saw her returning in the long bounds characteristic of those animals who cannot run owing to the extreme flexibility of the vertebral column.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

Harrison, a transport agent; as well as to Mr. William Harrington, master of the Willington, and the transports men; who were all anxiously eager to serve on shore, or on board his majesty's ships, mentions having taken possession of the Melpomene and Mignonne frigates: the former, one of the finest ever built in France, carrying forty guns; the other, only thirty-two.

The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 1 James Harrison

She was now "Madame Mignonne" from Paris, and wore a golden wig, and came on the stage riding a lion in the character of a heathen goddess in the spectacular display which always ended the performance.

The Hippodrome Rachel Hayward

At last his companion had grown so far tamed that she had caught the habit of looking up at him whenever he called in a falsetto voice, "Mignonne."

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

Mignonne arrived with bloody jaws; she received the wonted caresses, the tribute her slave hastened to pay, and showed by her purring how transported she was.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker