But "mousquetaire" is a might poor way to spell muskeeter. ❋ Unknown (1911)
Chesterton, mystique, mousquetaire de la plume, miroir redresseur de nos travers déformants, humoriste paradoxal et décapant, reste à redécouvrir. ❋ Unknown (2008)
To this remonstrance, which was delivered with a very significant countenance, the mousquetaire made no other reply, but that of echoing his assertion with a loud laugh, in which he was joined by his confederates. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Meanwhile Peregrine, having burst open the chamber door, found the lady in the utmost dread and consternation, and the spoils of her favourite scattered about the room; but his resentment was doubly gratified, when he learned, upon inquiry, that the person who had been so disagreeably interrupted was no other than that individual mousquetaire with whom he had quarrelled at the comedy. ❋ Unknown (2004)
While this inquiry was carried on, our hero and his companion concealed themselves among some weeds, that grew on the edge of the parapet, a few yards from the spot where he had agreed to meet the mousquetaire; and scarce had the morning rendered objects distinguishable when they perceived their men advancing boldly to the place. ❋ Unknown (2004)
His excellency, having heard the circumstances of the dispute, sent one of his gentlemen to invite the youth to dinner; and after having assured him that he might depend upon his countenance and regard, represented the rashness and impetuosity of his conduct so much to his conviction, that he promised to act more circumspectly for the future, and drop all thoughts of the mousquetaire from that moment. ❋ Unknown (2004)
The big shoulders, black brows and black mousquetaire swagger of Flambeau were a great contrast. ❋ Unknown (2003)
She was clad in pink, with a wide-brimmed straw hat ornamented with a mousquetaire plume, and was laughing mischievously. ❋ Unknown (2003)
"My son," said Anne of Austria, showing him the mousquetaire, who stood with his plumed hat in his hand, calm, grave, and collected, ❋ Various (N/A)
Then the lady would fall in love, and the husband conceived a friendship for the courtier, mousquetaire, or abbe, whom the lady patronized. ❋ Various (N/A)
Athies, mousquetaire gris in the service of Louis XV., and knight of the order of St. Louis, has just died, aged 113, at his country house, near ❋ Various (N/A)
With a long vividly striped stockinet neck wrinkling like a mousquetaire glove, the neat small head that so closely fitted his own neat small head, the tweaked, interrogative ears, -- Beautiful-Lovely, the Wolf Hound, reared up majestically in his own chair. ❋ Eleanor Hallowell Abbott (1915)
Slocomb was a mousquetaire, and Augusta, in red and black, "Diablotan," a vision of beauty and grace. ❋ Unknown (1912)
This stately and dangerous walk of his, his long, vibrant whiskers, his scars, his yellow eye, so ice-cold, so fire-hot, haughty as the eye of Satan, gave him the deadly air of a mousquetaire duellist. ❋ Booth Tarkington (1907)
A very handsome man of fifty, with mousquetaire moustaches, wearing ❋ George Bernard Shaw (1903)
A mousquetaire? or a troubadour in blue satin trunks and cloak, white silk tights and shoes and a Grecian helmet, like Mr. Snodgrass at ❋ William John Locke (1896)
[245] The best perhaps is of a certain peppery Breton, Saint-Foix, who was successively a mousquetaire, a lieutenant of cavalry, aide-de-camp to "Broglie the War-god," and a long-lived _littérateur_ in Paris. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
That peculiarity of being a novelist only _par interim_, much more than Aramis was a mousquetaire, appears, even in _Julie_, so glaringly as to be dangerous and almost fatal. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)
