When Rougon heard the word gendarme, he thought he understood her. From Wordnik.com. [The Fortune of the Rougons] Reference
He finished with a gesture of supreme disgust, as if friendship with a gendarme were the basest of crimes. From Wordnik.com. [The Isle of Unrest] Reference
Cuba has served as a kind of gendarme regarding the drug traffic in the. From Wordnik.com. [REPORTERS FROM THE CARACOL NETWORK] Reference
"What is this," the anti-terror gendarme demanded. From Wordnik.com. [The Mata Hari of the Faculty Lounge] Reference
The closest gendarme gives him a contemptuous look. From Wordnik.com. [Tango] Reference
The gendarme refused again, and started to move away. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
That brute of a country gendarme could have shown you nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
"One!" he shouted in a ringing voice, pushing aside the gendarme. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
The search was nearly over, when a gendarme came in from the stable with. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
A man and a woman with two children approached the gendarme deprecatingly. From Wordnik.com. [Trapped in 'Black Russia' Letters June-November 1915] Reference
He is accompanied by the brave young gendarme carrying a pair of crimson pajamas. From Wordnik.com. [Absolute Friends]
On the arrival of a gendarme, he explained that he was an English book-maker, and that. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, June 20, 1891] Reference
"He has found two Englishmen in a dungeon," observed the gendarme with wooden persistence. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III.] Reference
A conversation took place between them, and was interrupted by the approach of a gendarme. From Wordnik.com. [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference
"I'll see to these two while you go and summon our amiable gendarme and call an ambulance.". From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
While waiting for his connection, he addressed the senior gendarme of those present in the room. From Wordnik.com. [The Tale Of Mr. Peter Brown - Chelsea Justice From "The New Decameron", Volume III.] Reference
As we crossed the frontier a French gendarme and Spanish civil guard appeared, demanding passports. From Wordnik.com. [Bidwell's Travels, from Wall Street to London Prison Fifteen Years in Solitude] Reference
I looked around in a dazed way and saw the Brother Director and a young gendarme by the closed door. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 6] Reference
The gendarme at the door fastened his holster and returned to his former pose of stolid indifference. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
If he had made any threat of knocking the gendarme down he had not really intended to take that course. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 7, 1917] Reference
They will scatter at the signal of danger, like mischievous boys when a gendarme comes round the corner. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863] Reference
He had been excessively restrained in resisting the unscrupulous attempts of the gendarme to dislodge him. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 7, 1917] Reference
When the A.P.M. had interpreted the matter the gendarme insisted on an embrace, and the cook permitted it. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 7, 1917] Reference
A gendarme in one of the towns estimated that at least 100 Nigerian women were working there as prostitutes. From Wordnik.com. [Human Rights Watch: Côte d'Ivoire/Nigeria: Combat Trafficking for Prostitution] Reference
I found my gendarme a facetious fellow; though his merriment might not be well adapted to cheer his prisoner. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
A gendarme accompanied the stove in all its movements and remained with it during the disinfecting experiments. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 623, December 10, 1887] Reference
Cries were now heard outside the door, and a wounded gendarme was carried in, borne in the arms of his comrades. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
I forgot to remove it before starting and that was why not a single gendarme did more than salute as we tore past. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Chest] Reference
First we went to the hen-house, and in ten minutes had placed ten dripping victims in the French gendarme captain's car. From Wordnik.com. [Adventures of a Despatch Rider] Reference
The gendarme leaning against the wall outside the salon eyed them disinterestedly as they approached from the main hall. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
He saw her look at the house of the Three Widows, shrug her shoulders, and scold the gendarme who was pushing her forward. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret at the Crossroads]
But having got his place by right he refused to give it up to anyone else, be he French or English, Field Officer or even gendarme. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 7, 1917] Reference
The minister of police made a sign to the gendarme, who stepped up to the two captives, handcuffed them, and led them out of the room. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844] Reference
One of them, who was dying of thirst, would not drink the water that was offered him before the gendarme had tasted it in front of him. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915] Reference
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