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Par tout le parc les platanes portent le ciel, et quelques-uns dans leur cime l'oiseau espiègle du soleil.

Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

The only thing I feel sure about is that she's _espiègle_, and altogether delightful.

A Comedy of Masks A Novel Arthur Moore 1909

Isabella Linton -- a charming girl of eighteen with an _espiégle_ face and a thin sweetness of disposition that could easily turn sour -- Isabella Linton fell in love with

Emily Brontë 1900

Her expression was gay and _espiègle_, and not without a spice of irony, on the whole more French than German.

The Countess of Albany Vernon Lee 1895

Her eyes, black as sloes, were fringed with long dark eyelashes which gave their glances an _espiègle_ expression.

The Toilers of the Field Richard Jefferies 1867

The few letters given of hers in Mr. Lockhart's life of Scott, give the impression of an amiable, petted girl, of somewhat thin and _espiègle_ character, who was rather charmed at the depth and intensity of

Sir Walter Scott (English Men of Letters Series) Richard Holt Hutton 1861

French women ever do walk, nimbly moving their little feet _bien chaussé_, and with an air half timid, half _espiègle_, that elicits the admiration they affect to avoid.

The Idler in France Marguerite Blessington 1819

He was a bright boy, and precocious as a lady-killer; for, already, before we had left far behind us the pleasant slopes of Bay Ridge, with its peeping villa-parapets of brown and white, and its umbrageous masses of chromatic green, he had evidently engaged the affections of an _espiègle_ little straw-bonnet-maker, who did her hair something like his own, in a close-curled crop, and had her pretty little person safely shut up in a high-necked dress.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 Various

_espiègle_, highly artificial style of "Tom Moore's" after compositions, his "Pastoral Ballad" will be what Coleridge called his Vision, a

Notes and Queries, Number 189, June 11, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852