“The Fair Persian,” a brightly written historiette with not a few touches of true humour. ❋ Unknown (2006)
The editor was proportionably civil to him, and he was encouraged to commence a third historiette. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Coquelin did some excellent French monologues — one of them an ungrammatical Englishman telling a colorless historiette in French. ❋ Unknown (2003)
It would be easy to lengthen out our historiette into one of circumstantial evidence, trial, condemnation, and ultimate discovery; but we have preferred telling it as it really happened. ❋ Various (N/A)
Bagdad, "a fairy tale --" Lady Lucy's Petition, "an historiette --" the ❋ Various (N/A)
If a case came before an advocate that gave any scope for his talents as a pamphleteer, his opinion immediately took the shape of a little _historiette_, and in a few days was in print. ❋ Various (N/A)
ANECDOTE, _f. _, petit fait historique; historiette. ❋ Harry Vincent Wann (N/A)
"The Royal Sufferer," by Mrs. Hofland, follows, and gives the misfortunes of Prince Arthur in an interesting historiette. ❋ Various (N/A)
Donnez votre idée de la morale de cette historiette. ❋ Harry Vincent Wann (N/A)
And last in our enumeration, though first in our liking, are the following by the editor: -- Invocation to the Echo of a Sea Shell; King Pedro's Revenge, with a well written historiette; the Youngling of the Flock, full of tenderness and parental affection; and some Stanzas, for our admiration of which we have not an epithet at hand, so we give the original. ❋ Various (N/A)
Which historiette repeated itself many a time in the family annals. ❋ Collingwood, W G (1911)
I have met somewhere with a historiette, which, whether more or less true in its particulars, carries a general truth. ❋ Unknown (1909)
Englishman telling a colorless historiette in French. ❋ Albert Bigelow Paine (1899)
They are, for the most part, of the very favourite class, where the oaken boards constitute a receptacle or foundation for an encasement of leather (frequently pigskin) stamped with some beautiful historiette on either side, and carrying the date and other particulars of origin and ownership. ❋ William Carew Hazlitt (1873)
Coquelin did some excellent French monologues -- one of them an ungrammatical Englishman telling a colorless historiette in French. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
"The Fair Persian," a brightly written historiette with not a few touches of true humour. ❋ Anonymous (1855)