Avec les lambeaux je me ferai un manteau de velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [pinku-tk Diary Entry] Reference

“But the soft touch of a patte de velours will do it no harm.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

Yet to Amaryllis it was perhaps the raffish green imitation-velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ambrotox and Limping Dick] Reference

Neil Gruen was encased in beige suede slacks and an orange velours pullover.    From Wordnik.com.  [Murder Without Icing]

“She offers me no patte de velours; she is all form and reserve with me.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte] Reference

The dress was of blue silk velours, French material, and was going to be very becoming.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Virgin and the Gypsy] Reference

The present fashion does not go beyond a grey tweed lounge suit, with white spats and velours hat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 16, 1919] Reference

"Patte de velours, patte de velours, Minon-minet!".    From Wordnik.com.  [Gossip in a Library] Reference

Quatre morçeaux de bois dorè recouverts de velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.] Reference

I like the green velours in the sitting-room, don't you?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emma McChesney and Co.] Reference

"Ya du monde h la boutique pour mar chander le velours.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Songs of French Canada] Reference

Le diable emport 'la boutique aussi le marchand de velours!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk Songs of French Canada] Reference

From the bottom of the kitbag he dug up a blue velours case, which after.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drums of Jeopardy] Reference

But you wait until I get my complet de velours -- which is to say my velveteens.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Hilltop on the Marne Being Letters Written June 3-September 8, 1914] Reference

Rose with six-inch fingernails and artfully draped Donna Karan panne de velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [NYT > Home Page] Reference

Fantastique combinaison en bouche: des gants de velours autour d'une poigne de fer.    From Wordnik.com.  [CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes)] Reference

She has two maids; one of them in a grey velours dress that must have been one of Mrs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Nicky-Nan, Reservist] Reference

It is wonderfully white and pretty; but excuse me, C'est une main de fer, gantee de velours!.    From Wordnik.com.  [St. Elmo] Reference

M. le principal, en robe de chambre, se tenait près de lui humblement, son bonnet de velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant] Reference

She played before me the amiable; offered me patte de velours; caressed, flattered, fawned on me.    From Wordnik.com.  [Villette] Reference

Moi que d'être à plusieurs sur un coussin de velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Word-A-Day:] Reference

I always dreamed I'd have a house with blue velours curtains. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wrong Twin] Reference

Sur les mousses de velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Views and Reviews Essays in appreciation] Reference

It was a case of blue velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Drums of Jeopardy] Reference

Pendre en lambeaux le velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rodrigue pendant la bataille] Reference

ESCOBAR sait un chemin de velours?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes] Reference

ESCOBAR sait un chemin de velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fables of La Fontaine — a New Edition, with Notes] Reference

L'enfant aux grands yeux de velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Amiel's Journal] Reference

La main de fer sous le gant de velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Images from Works of Oliver W. Holmes] Reference

Très bel équilibre en bouche, du velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [CellarTracker Tasting Notes (all notes)] Reference

Expliquez les termes: cuir, velours, pataquès.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Conversation and Composition] Reference

Mrs. Milo straightened against the green velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [Apron-Strings] Reference

C'étoît une sorte de couche couverte en velours.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III] Reference