 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1857 - 586 pages
...but I literally seem to have murdered a man whose name was Ennui, for his ghost is ever before me. They say there is no English word for ennui; * I think...literally by what is called " entertaining people," aud " doing the honours : " that is, you sit an hour with somebody you don't know and don't care for,... | |
 | 1859 - 686 pages
...knives in act to carve, and look on them as savages that devour one another. I should not stare at nil more than I do, if yonder alderman at the lower end...what is called "entertaining people," and "doing the henours:" that is, you sit an hour with somebody you don't know, and don't care for, talk about the... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1860 - 404 pages
...16 but I literally seem to have murdered a man whose name is Ennui, for his ghost is ever before me. They say there is no English word for ennui; I think you may translate it most 17 literally by what is called "entertaining people," 18 1 I hold it, je regarde la chose comme—2... | |
 | Horace Walpole - Authors, English - 1861 - 580 pages
...but I literally seem to have murdered a man whose name was Ennui, for his ghost is ever before me. They say there is no English word for ennui;' I think...good deal in the country," or, " I think you don't lovo this thing or that." Oh! 'tis dreadful ! I'll tell you what is delighful — the Dominichin !... | |
 | Henry Southgate - 1862 - 774 pages
...but I literally seem to have murdered a man whose name was Ennui, for his ghost is ever before me. They say there is no English word for ennui; I think you may translate it most literally by what is T called " entertaining people," and "doing the honours ;" that is, you sit an hour with some body... | |
 | Lounger in society the pseud - Etiquette - 1881 - 374 pages
...but I literally seem to have murdered a man whose name was Ennui, for his ghost is ever before me. They say there is no English word for ennui; I think...somebody you don't know and don't care for, talk about 58 VISITING CARDS. the wind and the weather, and ask a thousand foolish questions, which all begin... | |
 | David Thomas - 1883 - 470 pages
...but I literally seem to have murdered a man whose name was ennui, for his ghost is ever before me. They say there is no English word for ennui, I think...'entertaining people,' and doing the honours, that is, you ait an hour with somebody you don't know and don't care for, talk about the wind and the weather, and... | |
 | Austin Dobson - Authors, English - 1890 - 414 pages
...but I literally "seem to have murdered a man whose name was Ennui, for his ghost is ever before me. They say there is no English word for ennui; I think...about the wind and the weather, and ask a thousand foojish questions, which all begin with, " I think you live a good deal in the country," or " I think... | |
 | Alphonse Mariette - 1894 - 402 pages
...— 2a / literally teem to, il me semble, tout comme je vous le dis. for his ghost is ever before me. They say there is no English word for ennui ; I think you may translate it most1 literally by what is called2 "entertaining people,"3 and " doing the honours ;" that is,4 you... | |
 | Susan Hale - Eighteenth century - 1898 - 334 pages
...you may translate it most literally by what is called ) "entertaining people" and "doing the honors," that is, you sit/ an hour with somebody you don't...about the wind and the weather, and ask a thousand fool-) ish questions, which all begin with, "I think you live a good I deal in the country," or, "I... | |
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tis growing old ; but I literally seem to have murdered a man whose name was Ennui, for his ghost is ever before me. They say there is no English word for ennui; I think you may translate it most literally by what is called "entertaining people... 
