bon-vivant

Ms. Le Pen was dubbed a tomboy by her sisters, but as a student she emulated her father's bon-vivant style, frequenting chic Parisian nightclubs.

In the Name Of the Father Emma-Kate Symons 2011

His headnotes are as bon-vivant engaging as his Tweets and blog.

While Flour Girl's away 2010

He could be childish and was a bon-vivant but after Louis de Polastron died he changed quite a bit and matured somewhat.

New Book Review elena maria vidal 2009

The interviews at which these descriptions took place, often ended in a bottle of choicer wine than the Swan Inn afforded, with some other appendages of the table, which the Captain, who was a bon-vivant, had procured from Edinburgh.

The Surgeon's Daughter 2008

He was lazy, peevish, and a bon-vivant; the appearance of a lady frightened him beyond measure; hence it was but seldom that he joined the paternal circle in Russell Square, where there was plenty of gaiety, and where the jokes of his good-natured old father frightened his amour-propre.

Vanity Fair 2006

Mr. Hall was no bon-vivant: he was naturally an abstemious man, indifferent to luxury; but Boultby and Helstone both liked good cookery; the recherché supper consequently put them into excellent humour: they did justice to it, though in a gentlemanly way - not in the mode Mr. Donne would have done, had he been present.

Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte 2004

He was somewhat of a bon-vivant, and a man who thoroughly understood dinner-parties; and with much good nature he took Frank under his special protection.

Doctor Thorne 2004

Ascetic and _bon-vivant_, mystic and materialist, learned and simple, noble and peasant, all have found something in it of which to lay hold.

Christmas in Ritual and Tradition, Christian and Pagan Clement A. Miles

But why had Colonel Van Ashton, the bon-vivant and habitué of clubs, the adored of pretty young women and confidant of duennas, taken the one road which led to the wilderness when it is well known that all roads lead to Rome, especially when the

When Dreams Come True Ritter Brown

He was lazy, peevish, and a bon-vivant; the appearance of a lady frightened him beyond measure; hence it was but seldom that he joined the paternal circle in Russell Square, where there was plenty of gaiety, and where the jokes of his good natured old father frightened his amour-propre.

III. Rebecca Is in Presence of the Enemy 1917