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  • As few, if any of us, had ever studied Flemish, the language question in some of the villages of Flanders presented a little difficulty, but with his guiding principle of "tout-de-suite, and the touter the sweeter," the British Tommy never seemed to have any trouble in getting what he wanted.

    The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

  • En arrivant à Washington j'ai tout-de-suite songé à votre observatoire, où vous avez acquis tant de droit à l'estime de tout ceux qui achèvent la science.

    The Reminiscences of an Astronomer Simon Newcomb 1872

  • Similarly, Bud Scoppa, freelance writer extraordinaire, was a good egg and got back to us tout-de-suite!

    rockcritics.com 2009

  • Similarly, Bud Scoppa, freelance writer extraordinaire, was a good egg and got back to us tout-de-suite!

    rockcritics.com 2009

  • The driver meanwhile got his load to take back, and anxious as all were who ever had a job of work at that particular spot, to get it done and be off, he adopted the practice which seemed to us rather foolish, of vigorously sounding his gong time after time, at the same time shouting "Alphonse, Alphonse," with the result that all our men vanished "tout-de-suite," leaving him and the errant Alphonse to face any whizz-bangs which might result.

    The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914 - 1919 History of the 1/8th Battalion W. C. C. Weetman

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