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to confirm our interest in him;
G. I. Williamson • Westminster Confession of Faith: For Study Classes
respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and towards 1821 the moment arrived when the word "Monsieur le Maire" was pronounced at M. sur M. with almost the same accent as "Monseigneur the Bishop" had been pronounced in D—— in 1815. People came from a distance of ten leagues around to consult M. Madeleine.
Victor Hugo • Les Misérables (English language)
as you know all, hath a contemptible spirit.
CLAUDIO
He is a very proper man.
PRINCE
He hath indeed a good outward happiness.
CLAUDIO
Before God, and in my mind, very wise.
PRINCE
He doth indeed show some sparks that are like
wit.
CLAUDIO
And I take him to be valiant.
Much Ado About Nothing - Act 2, scene 3 | Folger Shakespeare Library
respect became complete, unanimous, cordial, and there came a moment, around 1821, when the words “Monsieur the Mayor” were pronounced at Montreuil-sur-mer with almost the same accent as the words “Monseigneur the Bishop” at Digne in 1815.
Victor Hugo • Les Miserables (Les Misérables)
he was so useful and he was so gentle that people had been obliged to honor and respect him. His workmen, in particular, adored him, and he endured this adoration with a sort of melancholy gravity.
Victor Hugo • Les Misérables (English language)
my admiration for him had grown by leaps and bounds.
Elif Shafak • The Forty Rules of Love
‘Attention,’ wrote the French thinker Simone Weil, ‘is the rarest and purest form of generosity.’ Give your sentences that courtesy and they will repay you.
Joe Moran • First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life.
You must court him: he does not court you. But the man is, as it were, clapped into jail by his consciousness. As soon as he has once acted or spoken with eclat, he is a committed person, watched by the sympathy or the hatred of hundreds, whose affections must now enter into his account.