| 单词 | French |
| 例句 | Especially as, like most shot-down British airmen, she spoke only the most basic schoolgirl French and had no clever forged identity to fall back on in Nazi-occupied France. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A huge French window and a high ceiling made it bright all year round, warmer during the winter and cooler in summer. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z NOTE.—In derivatives through the French, super- takes the form sur-, as sur-vey, to look over. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z We called her “Madame” because she was French or Belgian—there was a dispute as to which—and that was what the guardians always called her. Never Let Me Go 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z The commissioner tugged ever so gently at his French cuff. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z "It’s queer, when one thinks about it,” goes on Kropp, "we are here to protect our fatherland. And the French are over there to protect their fatherland. Now who’s in the right?” All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z His voice is shaking, just a little, and his French accent’s a disaster. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “I hear there’s enough Irish, French, and l-talians around these parts to have us some fun tonight.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I entered the Chapel through the French doors and was surprised by the silence. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z And Pierre went to great lengths: he planted stories about the Patriarch of Antioch in Dutch and French newspapers on the offchance that Boyle would come across them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z We followed our gigantic shadows across the campus, and Phineas began talking in wild French, to give me a little extra practice. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z It transpired that she understood and spoke French, so that the conversation took place in that language. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re the first snails I have ever eaten, this is the first French restaurant I have ever been in. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Like Girard, Dr. Devèze was French; like Girard, he did not believe the fever was contagious; and like Girard, he did not believe in the Rush cure. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The distance derived from measurements of the parallax of Mars carried out in 1671 by a French team using simultaneous observations by Jean Richer from Cayenne, in French Guiana, and Cassini from Paris. The Scientists 2003-10-21T00:00:00Z French rule in Vietnam would deny power to the Communists. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Unfortunately, it coincided with another type of revolution–the French one–and for this one Lavoisier was entirely on the wrong side. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z At first there was some hesitation in the committee over hiring a French doctor. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Because,” Collins growled, “he sailed on privateers before he was knee high to a capstan. He knows guns. If we have trouble with the French he’ll be worth the rest of the crew put together.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I thought of porte, which is French for door, obviously. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She called room service and ordered a glass of orange juice, pancakes, a cappuccino, and French fries. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Their French is good, very Parisian, but who knows where their loyalties lie? All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He related how the FLN had begun their struggle with a handful of guerrilla attacks in 1954, having been heartened by the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The nice ones just kept asking us if we spoke French. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z A few weeks into our stay, I made a friend who wanted to improve his English as much as I wanted to improve my French. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I tried to speak to her in French, Lingala, and then English, but she knew none of them. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He told Lupe of the two French islands east of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "I wrote about liberty, fraternity, equality. The three themes of the French Revolution, which I see as one of the greatest events in history." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Townsend had discovered that about 8,000 Redcoats were boarding ships to sail to Newport, where they would launch an attack on the French troops. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I ordered a hot dog, French fries with ketchup, and a Coke. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The French doors are flung open, light streaming into the kitchen. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The French Quarter woke up around them, ready for Mardi Gras. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z On Wednesday afternoons, three of the girls in the class would go to his house where he taught them some of the mysteries of French cooking for extra credit. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z The man we’d rescued didn’t understand when we talked to him in French. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Some states, like Virginia, simply refused to comply: in 1936, a black student from Richmond named Alice Jackson Houston applied to the University of Virginia to study French, but she was denied admission. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Our Father finally caught on, nobody was understanding his horrible stabs at French or Kikongo, either one. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z His name is Ongah, and he is an exchange student from Kenya who is writing a dissertation at N.Y.U. on the French symbolists of the 19th cent. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z There was no harsh greeting or heckling as I entered French class. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie, shaky enough regarding English grammar, spelling, and punctuation, didn’t stand a chance with the French language. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The Thug said, “That’s easy, bone in French is la bone.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z She liked his accent, his English drenched in Wolof and French. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In his twenties he became a communist; communism’s promise to redistribute land and wealth among the people seemed an attractive alternative to French oppression. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Completely unarmed, the Florentines engaged ten thousand French soldiers to take Pisa: such a plan endangered them more than any of their previous predicaments. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z The phone rang again and Mariama spoke in French, her voice rising, and she stopped braiding to gesture with her hand as she shouted into the phone. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Today's discussion was dominated by an Italian nanny, two chatty Poles, and a pouty, plump Moroccan woman who had grown up speaking French and had enrolled in the class hoping to improve her spelling. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Unlike the French class I had taken in New York, here there was no sense of competition. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Rooms, corridors, doorways...The explanatory words were in French too, and in different writing. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Thus in this respect the Scientific Revolution is not like the American or French revolutions, which were called revolutions as they happened; it is a construction of intellectuals looking back from the twentieth century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Bobby had attended a performance of the French opera with his mother and sister at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York shortly before going to Europe. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Ben said, beginning a conversation he had fantasized when his father was flying from the carrier off the French coast. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Red-brick Georgian rose next to English Tudor, which gave onto French Provincial. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Later, our hosts informed us that Sudani had been a legendary soldier, and had even reputedly captured an entire French unit single-handedly. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z But the word itself, at least in English, French and Italian, is not new. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The French toast that the waitress brings is big as a dictionary. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z Years before, he explained, the country’s best leaders had gone north to fight the French. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Two years after the meeting in Alligator Woods, on August 29,1793, the leading French official on Saint Domingue realized that there was no point in opposing Toussaint and his armies. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “We thought we heard a game,” he said in a relaxed voice with the slightest of French accents. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z I picked a heavenly blue master bedroom with a king-sized bed and French double doors. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z No one was diverted from the issue by this try at a funny French pronunciation. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “What possesses him!” were some of the replies she gathered, uttered simultaneously in French and English. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z Why the French had given us the Statue of Liberty. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z But the Germans were our masters now, until our allies the British and the French arrived to drive them out. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z French fries—ten dollars’ worth of french fries, ultimate fantasy. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z NOTE: The French horn79 has a reputation for being a "difficult" instrument to play. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z French was a subject that I had great difficulty passing. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z The French means “long chair,” and the standard English pronunciation is shays-LONG. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Yesterday Churchill, Smuts, Eisenhower and Arnold visited the French villages that the British have captured and liberated. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Music is playing, a man singing songs in French. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z A recurring bit includes one of them choking on French fries; commedia dell’arte experience helpful. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z “Don’t know a word. I’m very stupid about studying anything, can’t bear French, it’s such a slippery, silly sort of language,” was the brusque reply. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Of course. We’ve had the French ambassador here to dine any number of times.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinwiddie, who wanted aid from the king to stave off the French, had the report published. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1894, the French criminologist Bertillon had helped to wrongfully convict Alfred Dreyfus of treason, having presented a wildly incorrect handwriting analysis. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My present French class involves no dialogue memorization, but still I find myself wearing the Walkman, mainly as a form of protection. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z At meals they chide younger children for admiring anything foreign: a British car advertisement, a French picture book. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z My greatest desire was to walk into Jack’s, sit down at the lunch counter, and order French fries with ketchup. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He has been reading the Vercors—he has read Le Silence de la Mer, The Silence of the Sea—the French Resistance tract, at my recommendation! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He had made a pact of mutual aid with two French kings, called Ban and Bon—and these two allies had come from France with about ten thousand men, to lend him aid. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z I closed the book on French verbs for the day. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The French, by contrast, had a Roman law system. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Using the side of his fork, Sherm cut up his last piece of French toast. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Adam gets a hot dog, Libby gets a panini from a French bakery, and Amelia insists on going to the cheese place. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z First they were enslaved by their French masters. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z I see Bedouins in the Sahara and the French Foreign Legion, cowboys on the American prairie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z At first, the FLN believed they could defeat the French militarily, Dr. Mustafa said, then realized that a pure military victory was impossible. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Throwing open the French windows of the drawing-room we sat smoking out into the darkness. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z I stopped going to my French group, then to my sketching class. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In addition to Sanskrit he had learned English and French and a little Latin and Greek. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “To not having random sex with French dudes.” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z In England, foreign secretary Anthony Eden said he “deeply regretted” the news, and then set about pressuring the French not to overreact. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z So, too, in French you find ‘physic’ in the singular, not the plural, to mean natural science: e.g. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “Any idea how come I found a plush toy shaped like a loaf of French bread in my trailer this morning?” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z “I may be only a girl of twelve, but I am a brave French explorer who has come to help you with your adventures.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “What about this one?” she said, showing me a book written in French. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z The porch was separated by French doors from the parlor and by windows from the office. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The letters keep coming: from more family members, from the Roos family both brothers had boarded with in The Hague, from Dutch artists, French artists, Australian, Belgian, Danish, English, and Italian artists. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She found a job working for an agency, helping American businesspeople learn conversational French, and French businesspeople learn conversational English. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Hello, young man!” he said, and he was kind of weird-looking, because he had on a red beret, like a French person, and an eye patch, like a pirate. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He walks toward it on this chilly evening through the French countryside like a moth to a flame. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “Eventually a four-wheeler came through the canyon. Fabian signaled to us all. When the cart was abreast of us, we leapt out and cried, ‘Jowls to the ground!’ like real French brigands. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z She peeled potatoes for French fries quietly, her eyes always on the sky. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Mohammed launched his whole bag of French fries at it. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z She should still be sleeping, but my father’s wife drives her to school early four mornings a week for violin lessons and conversational French. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z They said they were afraid of an attack from the French. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z These fugitive dignitaries are both from the Batetela tribe and learned French in mission schools, but have no inkling of how to talk to the Kwango tribesmen who fish the rivers east of Léopoldville. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It's no secret that the French hate Hitler, for what he has done to their country. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z The French onion soup was hot when it arrived, a rarity, all noted, at the Officers’ Club. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z By contrast, Lauritsen and his Caltech colleagues soberly devoted two full pages to a meticulous accounting of every step they had taken to validate the French findings on carbon and boron alone. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z When cotton became readily available there in the eighteenth century, it grabbed so much of the textile market that French woolmakers persuaded the government to ban the new fiber. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z When he had no more to tell me, I thanked him in my politest French, and left. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I stood up again in Engel’s cloud of smoke—hadn’t even ordered anything, just as well as it always panics me to have to speak French to strangers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z So after dinner the dads are in the front parlor with the French doors closed, leaning over a big round table, each scribbling away on pads of yellow paper, spinning out theories like madmen. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z He says he comes from the order of the White Fathers, missionaries to the nomadic Bedouin tribes and chaplains to the French Foreign Legion. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z "Straight A's in Flushing's gifted program? You'll do just fine here, young lady. I'll enroll you in Advanced Placement for math, English, French, and physics." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A member of the Berkeley French faculty and a close friend of Oppenheimer’s, Chevalier had approached Oppie about passing information from the bomb program to the Soviets. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Dancing at the French court, though, was not merely a way of passing a pleasant evening. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z And now that I think about it, she wasn’t in English or French. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “Morning, French. I see we ended up having a slumber party last night.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It’s only the boys, and not all of them either, since most of the parents don’t approve of learning French or the foreign element in general. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The next day Ann had French arrested for beating her, but she allowed him to talk her into withdrawing the charges with expressions of contrition and promises of a new beginning. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I had classes on Monday: Greek and French. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z She nods and begins slicing and buttering pieces of crusty French bread for me. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z No. But French’s Island was the spot in Maine where Mr. Patterson used to drink Moxie and sit on the beach with his wife when they were young. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I managed to get out of taking my French exams the next week, due to the very excellent excuse of having a gunshot wound to the stomach. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Farsi and French use the exact same word for “thank you.” Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z Tracy studied biochemistry and French, hoping to become a doctor. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Katherine’s development from solid high school French student to near-fluent speaker with a Parisian accent astonished her language teacher that fall. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Perhaps Werner feels sympathy for the two million French prisoners of war that the Nazis have forced into labor in Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z "But Louisiana—which shares my name, Louis—is a very French state." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Calder concentrated on the table, which also had a necklace of beads and a book with French words on it. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z I’m so glad the liaison officer has discovered your French and given you a job that makes use of it. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He spoke French well and fluently, with only a slight accent. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z She has the kind of mouth that always rests in a faint smile, and she smells a little like French toast. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z ‘Will French peasants go on forever pulling off their caps and saying “Oui, Monsieur,” when the gold coaches run down their children? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Granted, Pondicherry was once a French colony, but no one would have me believe that some of the zoo animals had frequented the Alliance Francaise on rue Dumas. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z All those little windows in the French doors allowed the shimmer of moonlight to come in and kiss everything in the room with a glittering silver dust. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z While I felt at ease giving my talk on TMV in shorts, the French contingent feared that I would go one step further by arriving at Sans Souci in the same outfit. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z We lived in the French concession on Rue de Paris. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z That was a typically French way to furnish a room. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He spoke fragments of French, Spanish and Japanese. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah, weirdly enough. He also sucks at French.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “Because French doors are nice,” the left face mused “Lots of natural light.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z "Chef Jammin' Jazzy's Spa-ghetto," she said in a French accent, which made it even funnier, since she had made an Italian meal. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z Pro-French sympathies were further heightened in July by the sudden influx of 2,100 French refugees, who were fleeing a fierce slave rebellion in Santo Domingo. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She pulled her arms from behind her back, producing two small plastic French flags and waving them enthusiastically. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “This is one of the best things I have, but it’s in French. Do you know French?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “What, suddenly you are an artiste?” he said sarcastically, pronouncing it the French way, “ar-TEEST.” I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z To us, the French behaviour has become increasingly barbarous.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Washington’s report on the French plans helped convince England to fight France for control of the territory both nations claimed. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We were in Paris training at INSEP, the national French sports training center, prior to our World Cup. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Our extended separation has so far improved my devotion to Anatole, my French grammar, and my ability to live with uncertainty. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Arnold passed the British many secrets, such as how many French troops were landing in America and where and when they were landing. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z See the history of the French horn43 to find out more. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z “Oh! What a wonderful story!” the French host said, her palm placed dramatically on her chest, looking around the table, as though to seek a response. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I study my French and try not to bother him too much while he prepares the next day’s lessons. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “And you understand French perfectly, do you not?” Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was exactly how they had beaten the French. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z After I’d explained some French to him, we began to talk. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Tell me, have you studied any foreign languages yet? French? Italian? German?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z Actually Daniel is the First Attaché, but the French are all so much of a higher class, regardless of their position. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I left: promising to enroll in a French class and then forgot that promise as soon my plane landed back in New York. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In middle school, it got around that we spoke French. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z I was pretty sure maman was borrowed from French, but Mom would neither confirm nor deny. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z We had to walk out of French in an orderly fashion and line up in the playground. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “I’m going back to Berlin. I applied for a transfer weeks ago, when we started interrogating her and that pathetic French kid. God.” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Nearly a year later, Washington and Count Jean B. de Rochambeau, the general commanding the French troops, began planning a real attack on New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “But at the minimum,” the captain says in French, his face falling, “we must X-ray it, no?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He said something else in a strange and southern French. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I called out in French, crossing my arms over my chest. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Back at the time of the sanctions controversy, Spassky wasn’t indicted by the French, and Lothar Schmid wasn’t indicted by the Germans. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Once or twice she went to Montreal, which worried me a little, because whenever she called to say she was fine I would hear the sound of French in the background, all breezy and guttural. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Wasn’t the French fight for individual freedom, Jefferson asked, exactly like America’s struggle against British oppression? An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Many of France’s neighbors worried that similar revolutions might spread to their countries and wanted the new French republic crushed. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z In another two million years, geologists like to joke, Yellowstone will be producing French fries for McDonald’s, and the people of Billings, Montana, will be stepping around geysers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z In the battle between the British and French fleets in Chesapeake Bay, thanks to Washington’s agents, the French may have been reading Admiral Graves’s flag signals. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z For on that Saturday a young French sailor rooming at Richard Denny’s boarding house, over on North Water Street, was desperately ill with a fever. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A hot shower and a breakfast of French toast helped drive away the fear. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The small, withered heart of Marie Antoinette’s ten-year-old son is kept in a crystal urn in a French church. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z This way the French and perhaps the whole world will learn that many Germans don't support Hitler and the war. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “The rooms have many windows that catch the wind. It’s clean, and they have French physicians.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It got trapped in a burning city and escaped, speaking bad French. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z What little money French earned at the tobacco factory he spent on Minnie’s homemade liquor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z All you could hear was the clock ticking and Mr. French’s fork tapping his dessert plate. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Rufus chains his bike to a parking meter and I follow him inside the fairly empty café, immediately smelling scrambled eggs and French toast. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “Okay. I’ll take the one at the counter. We both like French fries.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Each fresh arrival was briefed in this way; people—police, doctor, family members, servants—stood in knots that unraveled and reformed in corners of rooms, the hallway and the terrace outside the French windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “The French are no more capable of a republican government,” he insisted, than a snowball can exist a whole week in the streets of Philadelphia under a burning sun.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z After the South American music there was an interval Marco led me through the French doors into the garden. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “I have to leave today. How about if we have bad-news French toast today, and then a celebration special breakfast when I get back?” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “He has not learned French as a child,” says Marie-Laure, and both women laugh a moment before falling quiet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Instead, he saw the French Revolution as the European continuation of the spirit of ’76. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I drank hot chocolate and ate French fries. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z August bought me a new bed and a dressing table, white French Provincial from the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z A French counterspy had gotten his hands on a British spy’s list of ships carrying war supplies from French ports. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z From the menu the bellboy brought him he selected a luxurious breakfast—broiled bluefish, hominy, French toast, and hot black coffee. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I spoke French and English with my parents, but was still fluent in the language of my childhood friends. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z "Go and get some food, Justin. Dogs, French fries, some a that sweet corn. You go help him carry it, Sonny." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z If she had French on Mondays, life would really be unfair. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z This morning was just like old times: cinnamon French toast, Dutch pancakes, Ping-Pong. Booked 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z They’d come down to shepherd us through customs and speak French to the men in uniforms. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The only human form with dry feet was that of Daniel Chester French’s Statue of the Republic—Big Mary—which stood hidden under a silo of canvas. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The different representatives had all spoken their own languages—French, Spanish, Russian, Chinese. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Slowly, ‘experiment’ became in English a technical term for something scientists do; but not, as we have seen, in French. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Cal opened the front door a crack and saw Lee’s shoulders and head outlined against the white wall of the French Laundry across the street. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “That’s just great,” Skid said, popping a French fry into his mouth. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z Harry could hear them both talking very fast in French as they went off into the Great Hall. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z A similar suggestion was made a few years later by the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace, apparently independently of Michell. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z By the third day she was firing them at him, “French?” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z She spoke a few words to him in French. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z "But how did you relate the French Revolution to your own life, Sonia?" You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z That was poor little me, suddenly a diplomat’s wife on the edge of the forest prime evil, wearing my Dior gown and long black gloves to embassy parties in Brazzaville, French Congo. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z My sisters seem not to have slowed down long enough to learn French. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The spectacles have good lenses that magnify things: when I try them on, even French words look large and easy to read. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Patrice and Martin have been commandeered by their father to teach French and mathematics respectively, even though this puts Martin in charge of children older than himself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In time, the French government, prompted by complaints from the United States, replaced Genêt with a new minister, who brought along orders for Genêt’s arrest. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The books are by Dutch painters, who painted in a muted palette, so although he absorbs some of what Theo is trying to tell him, Vincent's color range remains more Dutch than French. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Four years later the revolutionaries removed the French king’s head. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z He complained to James Monroe that “my name is running through all the city as detected in criminal correspondence with the French directory.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z We worked on our French and chatted about one thing and another. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Thunder and heavy rain filled the air, punctuated by inhuman shrieks emanating from a recording of a grisly French melodrama being played for a French class on a nearby balcony. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z But when it came to Beginning French, she was lost. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It is true that our color was not our distinguishing feature there, so much as the American- ness represented in our poor handle on French. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In 1869 a French scientist, Leopold Trouvelot, accidentally allowed a few of these moths to escape from his laboratory in Medford, Massachusetts, where he was attempting to cross them with silkworms. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Now I was in a storm of French, drenched really, and only equipped to catch drops of the language—“who,” “euros,” “you,” “to the right.” Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z From this resulted the rebellion of Urbino, the insurrections in the Romagna, and countless dangers for the Duke, all of which he overcame with the assistance of the French. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z Not so many years before, the French monarch, Louis XVI, had sent money, ships, and soldiers to aid the struggling Continental Army’s fight against the British. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z General Eisenhower said to the French people: “Stiff fighting will come now, but after this the victory. The year 1944 is the year of complete victory. Good luck!” The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z He spoke French very poorly, but that didn’t stop him or diminish his enthusiasm. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z “You take care, French. Don’t break cover. Just disable the drivers and wait for them to abandon the cargo, just like we planned.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When the queen learned that I had been schooled in Latin and French, she bade me read aloud as she and her ladies worked on their embroidery. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z It was a quaint hideaway in a round chamber, stocked with shining rows of Tusker-beer bottles and French aperitifs and obscure African brandies. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The French counterattacked, defeating him at a hastily built stockade near Great Meadows, Pennsylvania. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I did not understand the Iranian obsession with French loan words. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z As the Presbyterian preacher commenced his sermon, I was puzzled by the behavior of Mr. French Gordy, who sat with Miss Sarah in front of us, smelling of soap as usual. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Monday I sat between Jay’s legs for hours as she braided my hair into fishbone cornrows that end in French braids. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z After lunch, after my French class, I sat on the top floor of the library with my books spread across the table in front of me. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z These similarities were obvious since the Renaissance, but mathematicians had to wait until the end of the French Revolution before they finally unraveled zero's big secret. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Her quickest way into the drawing room was across the lawn and terrace and through the French windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The north wall had vaulted windows with French doors that opened onto a roof terrace. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z She decided against closing the French windows, and sat down at one end of the Chesterfield. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z French reappeared shortly before the baby was born, but the months of worrying had weakened the developing fetus; Ann lost the child soon after the birth. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The drawing-room French windows still stood wide open to the night. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He handed me the sheaf of papers he’d brought over and asked me if I would kindly translate his written corrections from French into English. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z When she arrived home one night after attending church, she found French furiously pacing the floor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z We spoke French there and fit right in. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Many units of the French army were mutinous. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The French occupied land in the Mississippi Valley called Louisiana and much of the land north of the Saint Lawrence River. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He read the letter as another student in the class did irreparable damage to the French language and a short story by de Maupassant. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z It said that French troops were in British territory and must leave. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There are, I have noticed, two basic types of French spoken by Americans vacationing in Paris: the Hard Kind and the Easy Kind. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Sheet music, surely also the ill-gotten spoils of the Château des Bourreaux—a lot of popular songs from the last decade and some pieces by French composers, scored for flute and piano. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I loved showing off to my dad especially, since he also spoke French very well. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She consulted her list and ordered a "Beginning French” and an "Elementary Chemistry.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We were given cold water to drink that the boy explained in pidgin French was fresh and safe. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Her smile was friendly enough, but her eyes reminded Hazel of the policemen in New Orleans who used to patrol the French Quarter at night. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He forms two lines, with blue-clad French soldiers dug in on one side and gray-clad Germans attacking mercilessly on the other, just as they had fought on the Western front during the Great War. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll bring the coffee to you. I’ve got some dirty stories written by a French queen. They might be too—” “You bring ’em with the coffee,” she said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z By using the word new, Farmer was playing on the term triangular trade, the trade that had created the French slave colony that eventually became Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Mrs. Somerset put a bag of frozen French fries in her cart. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The words “Meet the Chartreux: French, Quiet & Cute” floated across the cat’s image. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z “The British and the French will be here by then.” Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z But after passing by the French Gordy house next door, I ducked around back to the Gordy stable and went through it to the pasture. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “The British were in Africa, along with the Germans and French. The Dutch were in Asia, and nobody was in South America,” because most of its nations were independent. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “I had already studied everything that was taught there except French, music, and dancing,” she wrote, “so I devoted myself to these accomplishments.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In 1789 the French population switched almost overnight from believing in the myth of the divine right of kings to believing in the myth of the sovereignty of the people. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z In the early 1600s the French explorer Samuel Champlain thought he might find a route by water across Canada—up the St Lawrence, through the Great Lakes, and on. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Mrs. French, the bio teacher, is hectoring a kid who hasn’t done his homework. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z On the first day, Bridge raised her hand and said, “Excuse me, but we don’t understand anything you’re saying. We don’t speak French yet.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I remember how the air smelled like French fries and soy sauce from the food court. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z After five weeks in school, she can swear in French. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z It was as if one was speaking German and the other French. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Mom explained that Grandma Smith had owned two houses, the one she lived in with the green shutters and French doors, and an older house, made of adobe, in downtown Phoenix. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I can’t hear him when he talks French but Father told Mama about it at night. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The experience had been thrust upon her with no warning, as if she were a character in a comedic French play. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z “Excuse me,” she said with a thick French accent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z We are marching in column; the French certainly will not fire on a town in which there are still inhabitants. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinwiddie gave Washington a letter to present to the French commander. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z French II started at 8:10, and figuring it couldn’t take more than eight minutes to put on some clothes and walk to the classrooms, I set my alarm for 8:02. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Finding the Colonel’s French to be of a severely limited description, Poirot conducted his interrogation in English. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Odile was positively enchanted with the French boy that my sister had brought along. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z His mom taught French at the prestigious and expensive Kalman School downtown, and his dad was a sociology professor at Northwestern University, just north of the city. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z French officials warned the Americans that their most secret information, including word-for-word reports on their conversations with Beaumarchais, were showing up in London within days. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z His works were key texts from the end of the Dark Ages through the Renaissance and French Revolution to the drafting of the American Constitution. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z One is a Mass he wrote for Reims Cathedral, newly rebuilt but subsequently destroyed in the French Revolution, and which, as it happens, had a complex maze set into its nave. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “I can see that,” says Abby, shoving a French fry into my mouth. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z He came up the steps to explain in his formal French that the tracks of a large lion, a solitary hunting male, had been spotted on the path from the river. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Just so we won’t have any trouble. If a French privateer sees us, we’ll look so dangerous the privateer will crowd sail and run!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Our supplies come from the French Catholic Relief, and sometimes just thin air. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But the former slaves in what became Haiti defeated the French army. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I couldn’t help thinking about how, in my book, Meg’s mother had French toast waiting for Meg in the morning. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z “We’ll do hour shifts and leave at first light. Starting with Tree and ending with French. Got it?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z But when Napoleon overturned the French Republic and declared himself omnipotent military dictator, again just as Adams had predicted would happen, Jefferson quickly shifted his position to accommodate the new reality. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The governor’s decision to send George off to deal with the French shows the trust that people already placed in young George Washington. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Right now, he was reading a book translated from the French. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z I was also thinking you might know how to pick French cheeses. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z I end the call, but am suddenly gripped by the completely irrational fear that the phone could ring, that Tom would hear it from upstairs, so I slide the French doors open and step outside. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z It was before the disastrous May when the Allies fled, retreating to the French beaches, before the siege that was the Battle of Britain, before the thunder and flame-filled nights of the Blitz. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It would be the same if a French person were to visit, say, Knightdale, North Carolina. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z "It's a reproduction of a famous painting by an impressionistic French artist who was famous." The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Her bed would be littered with the separated sheets of the daily papers folded anyhow, while French novels with curling edges and the covers torn kept company with American magazines. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z It was the half-hour break after their homework and before their French tutor arrived, and Ojiugo was making jam sandwiches, carefully cutting off the crusts. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In the military, brilliant generals are said to possess "coup d’oeil”—which, translated from the French, means "power of the glance”: the ability to immediately see and make sense of the battlefield. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Rinaldi said that the French had mutinied and troops marched on Paris. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Adams had always supported military preparations more as a diplomatic maneuver to impress the French government of American resolve. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She also just arrived in New York, but they put her in the smart class because she speaks French and English. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z He spoke to me in French, as kids from Africa generally know some French. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z During one ten-month period she gave 123 concerts in fifteen different countries, performing a repertoire that included over two hundred songs and arias in German, Italian, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Finnish, and other languages. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z He was so embarrassed and he talked so fast that he started talking French. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She recited those words now, at the dinner table of the French and American couple, while the Haitian poet stared, arms folded. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z For over a year, the male French pilots of the Normandie-Niemen Regiment, flying dangerous Soviet Yaks, frequently served as fighter escorts for the women of the 125th Guards in their powerful Pe-2 dive-bombers. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The French, Lyndon Johnson—they simply hadn’t been tough enough, Nixon believed. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z She could know French for the both of us, as far as I was concerned. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z One writer marveled at Osage girls who attended the best boarding schools and wore sumptuous French clothing, as if “une très jolie demoiselle of the Paris boulevards had inadvertently strayed into this little reservation town.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z They rode on to Town Square, where they parked their bikes next to the bronze statue of Fry’s founder, Fullerton French Fryer. The Last Last-Day-of-Summer 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z This means “one of a kind” and it's from Latin, so don't pronounce it as if it were French. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Struggling to form words, I asked him if he spoke Lingala, and he responded “no” in French. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “What are you doing with Lulu? And Susan and Acre and French Fry and Up?” Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The French were sinking American ships left and right. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a white man that talked French. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Brett was talking French and he was talking Spanish and a little English, and laughing. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Finn remembered that the last time Mom had made French toast, it was because she’d gotten overwhelmed with her job and had to work an entire Saturday. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z He was Count Mallevant, he told them—once of the French navy. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z This is a striking case of French imposing itself upon English, and of the scientists determining for the first time the language of the theologians. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He could talk about such subjects as the French Revolution and the Siberian gulags, the philosophy of Nietzsche, and the discourses of Disraeli. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Day after day, if I ask directions or try to chat about the weather, they attempt nervously to answer me in halting English or French. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I visited the famous Casbah, the ghetto which had resulted when the ruling white French wouldn’t let the dark- skinned natives into certain areas of Casablanca. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States will have done something the French don't like, and people will behave as though it's all my fault. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “With a name like Bridget you are surely not French, are you, Mrs. Flagg?” asked Grandfather. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Hamilton had been born on the West Indian island of Nevis, the illegitimate son of a down-on-her-luck beauty of French extraction and a hard-drinking Scottish merchant with a flair for bankruptcy. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Maybe passersby would think he was a member of the French Foreign Legion or some heroic mercenary. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z It’s similar to the way Adah will sometimes turn up knowing some entire, difficult thing like French or the square root of pi when I’d been taking for granted I knew everything she did. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie couldn’t understand the French but she gathered that the play was written around the actress’s amputated leg. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z It was deserted—the French didn’t see an Indian village for two hundred miles. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “You know how I remember that? Your father and I visited the French Quarter in New Orleans when you were a baby.” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z Somewhere above him, the voice of a young man starts speaking in French about coal. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z When you think about French theater back in Moliere’s time, the Greeks, it isn’t something that has just happened. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Just south of Hadley, before they could reach Deerfield, they had been ambushed by Indians who attacked savagely with both arrows and French rifles. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z His laptop was gone and so were his French novels. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Our tests were administered by an attractive French psychologist named Madame Haberman, who was herself a Mensa member. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “Every culture is like that. The Americans, the French, the Jamaicans, the Koreans. Everyone thinks their way is the best way.” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z This French map shows the great chain that blocked the Royal Navy from the upper Hudson. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Raised in New York City by French parents, he had attended the Lycée Français de New York in Manhattan, a high school that was unapologetic about its European perspective on education. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It was a typical student apartment: prints of modern French paintings tacked onto the walls and books and papers piled on tables and chairs. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Twenty minutes into French class, Madame O’Malley was conjugating the verb to believe in the subjunctive. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z Matt settled against a roll of blankets with a slice of cold French toast. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I only wanted a few good French friends in Bayonne to make me welcome in case I should come back there again. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z When it was time to order, I flailed at her with my catastrophic French. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Then he did French for an hour. Then he studied Russian. Then he would read philosophy. He did that religiously, every day.” Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The five men raised them in toasts to the French and British armies, and to the crushing of Germany. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was a classic meal of the French lords. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z The French fries were heavenly; the soda burned their throats in a good way. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In a minute here Mr. French came back, his ruddy face beaming, and took my mother’s arm. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Bloom raced up to them, shouting commands in French and English. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Then I felt dead selfish and bossy and mean, and tried to apologize to Papa Thibaut’s mate, in my rubbish French, for denting his fender. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I was anxious to get started because I could see that Central had tape recorders and special headphones, things I hadn’t had in my French classes before. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Not until I got older did I learn that Flatbush Avenue inspired a lower level of awe than the French Riviera. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z Their instructions were to travel to Sumatra and chart the transit there, but after just one night at sea their ship was attacked by a French frigate. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z As they made their way around the room, Tab signed up for Hindi Club and French Club, where Madame Lawrence pointed at Bridge and said, “Le chat! ” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I don’t have the vocabulary for a warfare account in French, and I can’t write fluently enough in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The sister, who had taken on a job as a salesgirl, in the evening studied stenography and French, so as perhaps later to obtain a better position. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z This was in the early 1930s, when the French were still trying to make Pondicherry as Gallic as the British were trying to make the rest of India Britannic. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Celeste stuck her head into the living room, where Bridge and Tab had done what felt like hours of French. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Catalina was originally from Spain and she was fluent in both Spanish and French. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z In front of the tall French window our square mahogany table was covered with steaming dishes and surrounded by my family, who were laughing and chattering when I rushed in. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I speak a little French. I can try to help you understand what people are saying.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Mrs. Underdown reported this to me, in quick little bursts of translation while she squeezed my hand tightly, since it was mostly all in French. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The trains route runs through small, pretty French villages of stone houses, villages not that different from Zundert. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z George did not speak French and neither did Gist. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z It was his custom, after each reading, to ask X to plot out or pad out the letter of reply, or to insert a few impressive words in French or German. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z A French examination was announced for one Friday late in August. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z He made a stiff bow, then spoke in his weird French accent: “They are here, General.” The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z That night I dreamt that I was at a costume ball in an eighteenth-century French chateau, with huge crystal chandeliers above my head. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z She was taking four AP classes and served as secretary of the French Club. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Following such impulses, a few Spanish—and a few French, Portuguese, and British— deliberately spread disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z For this reason I took one companion on my journey—an old French gentleman poodle known as Charley. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad sat at the dining room table, staring at his phone, and there was a stack of French toast and a pile of bacon awaiting my arrival. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z As far as I was concerned, the French could be cold or even openly hostile. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Fluent in Spanish, Portuguese, and French, he had a knack for making friends wherever he went—as well as narrowly avoiding danger and death. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z As it happens, Oresme’s text was never published, and cannot have circulated widely because it was written in French. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z An experienced traveler could have told by looking at my shoes that I wasn't French. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He has a French face, lean, whimsical, all planes and angles, with creases around the mouth where he smiles. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t feel like he was there or anything, but I still took one of Mom’s dumb little French flags and stuck it in the ground at the foot of his grave. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z “It was not,” says Jutta, reaching the limits of her French, “very easy to be good then.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Go away, you stupid things,” he said to them in French. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z It will take him a while to get used to the food, the habits, the temperament of the southern French. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z He got B-pluses and A-minuses in French, and, even though he was a jock, he “didn’t mind being called on in class.” A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z Later I remembered that he spoke in French, and I wondered if he meant to show me that he had noticed my gift of the pansies. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z The governor also gave Washington another mission: Get intelligence on the French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, we have to be careful with the menu because of my allergies, but my mom always makes her version of a cassoulet—a French stew with chicken, sausage, duck, and white beans. Everything, Everything 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z Ruthie, who softens her French toast by pouring orange juice over it and much of the table, is one of the more with-it gals. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Her first move was to go round to the various teachers who taught the senior class and borrow from them a number of text-books, books on algebra, geometry, French, English Literature and the like. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z But Grandmère was French, and was always saying my parents were too “American” anyway. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z American and French flags fly from a hilltop at the center of the park. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z She traveled the world after that, her name made, teaching girls how to defend themselves against shamblers, and finally marrying a handsome French duke. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Some of them married French people or came here for work, but none of them viewed the move as a political act. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Washington had learned that colonists in the area recently had been killed and scalped, probably by Indians working for the French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z On the tenth morning, I was visited by a French doctor, Dr. Deveze. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not exactly. He’s got his heart set on a cavalry charge. Drawn sabers, all that glorious French business. He was horrified when I had to tell him we didn’t use the British square.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some had stayed behind, along with the French police. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z The year that Buttercup was born, the most beautiful woman in the world was a French scullery maid named Annette. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “Too bad Bit isn’t here. He loves French fries,” Malcolm says. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I asked for some more bread in French for no reason. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z I tapped an artesian well of good feeling and made a small speech in my pidgin type of French. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z I search my brain for this word, trying to find the Creole word for it, or a French one—détenir: to hold back, to keep from moving. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But before they left, Washington spotted many French canoes. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She speaks quiet, perfectly enunciated French; her accent is crisper than Frau Elena’s. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Eventually he smiled again and said: 'As I say, I'm not going to waste my time on our French friend over there. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I wonder if this is the way actual French people say it. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z I stabbed a chunk of French toast with my fork and dragged it through the gooey syrup. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Not the French doctor who had refused to treat my father. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z He understood immediately she was a gypsy who was not fooled by his speaking French. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “This is your fault. The French blood in him has made him crazy.” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z There, she wore a uniform of green and white and learned to speak French. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z The deception plan called for the French and American armies to seem to be forming for an attack on New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She did not think the French should have tested atomic weapons in Algeria, of course, but she did not understand why it mattered enough for Balewa to break off diplomatic relations with France. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Underdowns talk French to each other even though they are white people. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, her dad kept bringing in these plates of bacon and, for me, French toast strips I could pick up with my hands. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z It is impossible to be in this high spinal country without giving thought to the first men who crossed it, the French explorers, the Lewis and Clark men. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “But you must learn to pronounce it in French. Like this!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But a large number of United States citizens loved Genêt and the French cause and rallied around him. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z But successful negotiations required a French government sufficiently stable and adequately impressed with American power to bargain seriously. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Is he talking about French, or is he talking about the language of hacking? Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The French doors were closed; heavy drapes hung full against the seventeen windows he had counted so many times. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Her thick brown hair was in a French braid, and she’d gotten new red glasses. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z As they waited for instructions to march, they practiced their French and bantered with the Irish Seventh Regiment. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I don’t know what Engel used, but she wrote in French, so I don’t remember her exact words. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z More than a century later the French explorer La Salle canoed down the Mississippi. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Dinwiddie had sent a special message to London, advising that French troops had marched out of New France and built two forts in the Ohio Valley, land claimed by Virginia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “He’s something of a genius. He has a Punjabi mother and a Bengali father, and because he learns French and English at school he already speaks four languages. I think he skipped two grades.” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “Who was that French guy who bopped me on the head?” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Devised by the French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon in 1879, it was the first scientific method for identifying repeat criminals. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Francis Poulenc neatly summed up the prevailing French ambivalence towards Wagner by saying that, after listening to him, it was necessary to cleanse one’s spirit and ears by listening to Mozart. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We call it paraffin at home, but the Americans call it kerosene, and that is more or less what the word sounds like in French and German too. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “French citizens only will be evacuated. We will begin processing visas immediately.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z When Sherm said “date,” Bridge’s head buzzed the same way it did when Madame Lawrence pointed at her in French class. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Unless they're for children, all movies are shown in their original English with French subtitles. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The French masters had separated slaves who spoke the same African language, so in secret they had fashioned their own common tongue in order to communicate more effectively. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Jacques a dit is “Simon Says” in French, by the way. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z For an hour, I roamed aimlessly through streets at the edge of the French Quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In another part of Switzerland, the Swiss peoples speak French; in another part German; and yet another tiny part Romansch. The Unfinished Angel 2009-09-22T00:00:00Z Though I could invite someone to call me, the only phone number I know by heart is Eric's, the young man on my French tape. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The French cuffs were held together with onyx cuff links, and his collar was tied with a red-striped power necktie. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z "Would you translate something into French for me?" The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z “True. But they were all searching for belonging. She was, too. Not that it’s an excuse to have possibly mind-blowing sex with a French dude...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Napoleon had popularized the word, which had first been used by the French philosophe Destutt de Tracy, whom Jefferson had read and admired enormously. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z There was the French Recycle, where she let smoke out her mouth only to inhale it back through her nose. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He established a network of mysterious contacts that enabled him to buy antiques, particularly baroque French porcelain, for which he had a weakness. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her English is as rubbish as my French, but though we persist in thoroughly mangling both languages, we understand each other pretty well. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “The Cape’s not so bad. You’re safer there than lots of places. For instance—take the Mediterranean. There—you’d be running from a French privateer, and probably be hulled by a Barbary pirate.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I was dubbed the Black Pimpernel, a somewhat derogatory adaptation of Baroness Orczy’s fictional character the Scarlet Pimpernel, who daringly evaded capture during the French Revolution. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Remember Napoleon’s dream of a French sugar empire and how the victorious Haitians destroyed it? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Being accustomed to fighting with the aid of the Swiss, the French cavalry felt they could not win without them. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z They installed me at the marquetry table with some harmless dummy documents to work on—finding the best connections between French rail and bus timetables and making a list of them in German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Immersing herself in a third language, a third culture, had been her refuge— she approached French, unlike things American or Indian, without guilt, or misgiving, or expectation of any kind. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z There was a trip wire, barely thicker than a human hair, running the entire width of the room, and the French windows were alarmed. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z My mother didn’t speak French and I had never seen her do anything but add and subtract in her account book. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I bet he will, too, I thought, staring at a picture of a woman holding up a stick of French bread at the camera and grinning like a maniac. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z In a French village far to the south of Saint-Malo, a German truck crossing a bridge is blown up. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Rufus reaches over and carves himself a piece of French toast and then chews it, savoring the bite with his head down and eyes closed. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z “The French physicians are every where getting into disrepute,” the increasingly combative Rush asserted. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z There were tanks rolling through tiny villages and French girls waving handkerchiefs from balconies. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He was thinking about the French boy asleep in his bed, and about the indifference with which men could lob shells into a landscape. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “We’ve got him, sir! A French spy! I can tell by the way he talks!” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Sitting up in bed eating breakfast we could see the lake and the mountains across the lake on the French side. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Sometimes our boarders were French and American journalists who wanted to take pictures of the churchyard where you could see the bodies. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Best of all: Tall French windows opened to a small, private balcony. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z After the French stock market crashed when he was thirty-four, he floundered. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Word of the French moves alerted the militia. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z High on hashish and mast on French wine, they struck and killed a Hazara husband and wife on the road to Paghman. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Bernhardt played the part of a French soldier who had lost his leg in the War. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Cecilia gripped the cool porcelain in both hands as she stood on one foot, and with the other hooked the French windows open wide. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Also, they have been questioning that French girl again. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “I’ve only gone as far as the past perfect tense in my French book.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Once again I stopped men on the street and asked directions to the French Market or to some church, and once again each gave me courteous replies. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone of insight was needed to thrust chemistry into the modern age, and it was the French who provided him. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Most of us in England find the present French attitude despicable. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I gave her all my French fries and talked loudly about the two of us going to Boston for a museum trip with her mom. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Did she notice their impeccable suits, one the light blue of a globe’s watery portions, the other the pale lavender of French pastilles? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He cut me off, “Let’s talk about that up front here, French. No need to bother everyone.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z He also sends him a drawing of a Zouave, a French soldier, which amazes Bernard. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Sent to France to negotiate a wartime alliance, he arrived in Paris just when the French ministry was ready to entertain such an idea. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “From the wounds he earned at the French wars. I suppose it will only encourage your enterprise,” she said with some unease. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He knows the fleet proves that the French plan to seize more Virginia land. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Molasses from French islands would now be too expensive—merchants could never make a profit. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Lumière. These French guys who basically invented movies—they made the camera and showed the first film—a bunch of people exiting a train station...” Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z Whereas Bach undoubtedly absorbed Italian and French flavours of style, he was nevertheless inescapably a north German composer whose music would take a century to be reintroduced into the mainstream. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The forms en- and em- are of French origin. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington gave Genêt what amounted to a diplomatic cold shoulder, meeting with him very briefly, but refusing to discuss the subject of United States support of the French. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He said, “Around here, some folks speak French, some speak in Creole, and they is some that speak Spanish.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The French girls didn’t look like they’d been through a war; they wore pretty, ruffled skirts, white ankle socks, and silk scarves. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Dad was left out of the conversation when the talk was in French. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z English, North American, French, and Dutch ships competed to supply the Caribbean plantations and buy their sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Washington had spent his young manhood fighting with the British to expel the French from North America. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z For example, the Indo-European language family, which includes English as well as French, Russian, Greek, and Hindi, comprises about 144 languages. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “I had a burger, with ketchup and mustard and relish and a tomato and onion and French fries. And a black-and-white ice cream soda.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it’s some French person visiting Mr. Gervais on the fifth floor. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Once again the French seemed fated to provide the most memorably unlucky participants. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Spanish word corrida means in English the running of bulls—the French translation is Course de taureaux. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z They used to have these two French babes, Tina and Janine, come out and play the piano and sing about three times every night. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z Seeing that the priest had properly and assiduously observed all the procedures, millions of devout French Catholics behaved as if God really existed in the consecrated bread and wine. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. P was blowing into the French horn, and Fred was watching him, his trumpet in his hands. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I imagine her texting from some café at sunset, some French boy hanging over her shoulder, jealous of me on the receiving end. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z My parents wanted us to grow up speaking fluent French. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z Once in a while, he said, “they throw a French twist on it: ‘Losier.’ Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Why? It’s unpatriotic. French hostility toward Americans. Too many people taking time off in April. Our plane will be blown up by terrorists. I could go on.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z This was a great source of pride for the French, but it was predicated on the assumption that the Earth was a perfect sphere–which Newton now said it was not. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One after another, five more French cities held fairs, until the last one of the year ended in Troyes in December, and then the cycle started again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It’s about this woman who had to learn French for her job and was having a lot of trouble. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z When the three got together, Farmer told them, in French, that he dreamed of a new kind of “triangle”—doctors from Cuba and money from France coming together in Haiti. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But it doesn't interest me to manipulate the French. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The blonde had French braids; the other had short brown pigtails. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Rochambeau’s son, a colonel, broke security by telling his girlfriend that the American-French force was heading for Chesapeake Bay, where they would meet up with more French forces. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z One was a French officer, the other was a little man with enormous moustaches. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z Geneva found a plate and stacked the French toast on it and set it on the table. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The French doors my father had installed squawked as they opened. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z This word entered English in the 1200s, so there’s no reason to say it as if it were French. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I had French at two, but after Greek I went straight back to my room and took a sleeping pill and went to bed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z The victorious Allies divided Germany into four occupied zones: Russian, French, British, and American. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z “Like French and German,” added another student, officiously showing off his learning. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z People like France, so that ended the conversation, even though the French kings pooped right in the hallways of their castles. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Members from the French team came to see me to offer their support, as they knew how important staying healthy was during the Olympic qualifying year. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z Onto the shirt, she had sewn four carefully hoarded brass buttons, gleaming, each marked with the French flower that the voyageurs called fleur-de-lis. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Mainly Dimple tried not to be jealous that not only was Celia smart and glamorous and rich and beautiful, but she also spoke passable Spanish, excellent French, and fluent English. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He would quietly tell me what the teacher was talking about during the lessons, doing his best to use French. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z My favorite subject in school is French class. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z This convenient comparison is given extra poignancy by Beethoven’s reference to the French despot in his momentous third symphony, these days known as the Eroica but originally dubbed the Bonaparte. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I picked it up into a French twist and looked at myself from different angles. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z I sometimes wonder why I even bothered with French class. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z One night Werner and Jurta tune in to a scratchy broadcast in which a young man is talking in feathery, accented French about light. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z And even if I were French, it's not as if English is some mysterious tribal dialect spoken only by anthropologists and a small population of cannibals. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z At one point I decided to wander outside and sit on the stone steps just beyond our dining room's French doors. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z He didn’t speak French, Swahili, or Mandarin to any tourists. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z French fries spring loose in the bag, and it shakes around like a maraca. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z It sounds the same in English and French and German. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z “French, up front with me. Chi-Boy, take the back. Everyone, grab your stuff.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z That’s an application to join the White Fathers, missionaries to the nomadic tribes of the Sahara and chaplains to the French Foreign Legion. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z For a time I did work hard to learn French, but then Adah ran away with that prize so I dropped the effort. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Doubt and hesitation are completely unnecessary, as Easy French is rooted in the premise that, if properly packed, the rest of the world could fit within the confines of Reno, Nevada. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z "It was about our faith, ma'am. We're Catholic, thanks mostly to the French part of us. Even one of the most violent, bloody antireligious revolutions in history couldn't keep the French away from the Church." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The Manufactures and Liberal Arts Building alone had ten, plus two large restaurants, one German, the other French. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Something like French toast, if we had any eggs. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z As a boy he taught himself to read parts of the Bible in Hebrew, and before we came to Africa he made us all sit down and study French, for the furtherance of our mission. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A prim woman with bobbed hair and a throaty French accent asked Felicia to remove her shoes and knee socks, then made a note in a calfskin ledger. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The voices went on—Tonie’s slow, Acadian drawl, Robert’s quick, soft, smooth French. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The commotion of the passing French column had covered the sound, but they were easy enough to see. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z My confidence hit a new low when my friend Adeline told me that French children often make mistakes, but never with the sex of their nouns. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z MacQueen had stood looking from one to the other, not quite following the rapid flow of French. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I sit in a French restaurant with Josef, drinking white wine and eating snails. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z William, on the other hand, spoke the high French of the monastery, which was infused with Latin. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z “I've found you insanely attractive since I saw you when I was freaking out about my French test,” she answered. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Ma would order the eggs and English muffin, Spoony always got the French toast, and me and Dad both got pancakes. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Chevalier was a Berkeley French professor and, along with his wife, a member of the Oppenheimers’ social and intellectual circle. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Abigail heard him out about the doomed course of the French Revolution but was somewhat more sanguine: “I ruminate upon France as I lie awake many hours before light,” she wrote. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the drawing room the French windows were open on to the terrace and the sound of the sea murmuring against the rocks came up to them. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z It may have been the first touches of green along the French lanes and the haze of bluebells glimpsed through the woods that made him feel the need for reconciliation and fresh beginnings. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The relentless ogive of growth fascinated Jacques Monod, the French biologist. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z But where in English we can speak of ‘the evidence’ as a totality—‘the evidence of his guilt was overwhelming’—in French it would be necessary to use a plural, les preuves. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Posh Southern English with a faint French accent. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z And yet here Anatole speaks French, English, Kikongo and whatever all he first started out with, plus knowing enough to be the one all-purpose schoolteacher. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z French composers of the melodramatic grand opera school -Jules Massenet and Charles Gounod, for example - were just as much a target for his often facetious pen. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Even so, his moon book went through at least nineteen editions in French and two in English before the end of the century. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z As for Washington’s French problem, the fever had an impact on it as well. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He adds, “And it’s French like Louis Pasteur.” The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z Leah’s hair is so pretty, and it smells exactly like French toast. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z “She wants you to say it in French,” Tab told Bridge quietly over her shoulder. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Under the bright green and blue plastic tents vendors sell everything from fabrics with stripes, paisley, and flowers to books in Chinese, Khmer, English, and French. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These were not only Britons and Germans, but also Belgians, French, Italians, Swiss; they were diplomats and political persons of high rank; distinguished clergymen; retired military gentlemen; writers and thinkers. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He had a wife, a young French girl called Marie whom he had recently married in Paris. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes we talk in French class. How come you don’t want to look for one?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I sniff the coffee, the rich, black, oily French roast we all prefer. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The first British colonial militias fought Indigenous people and French and Spanish colonizers. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Except, of course, Arnauld didn’t use the word ‘evidence’, as he was writing French, not English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z They were waiting for Hagop and Atom from Liyana’s class to appear so they could go see a French movie at the British library. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Neither of them was very fluent, and Louisiana French was so different from Canadian French it was almost impossible to converse. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z I didn’t have time to, because the presiding judge told me in bizarre language that I was to have my head cut off in a public square in the name of the French people. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Until one day, when a French diamond trader, during a trip to the Golconda Mines in India, was shown a massive pear-cut diamond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z One demanding French countess, with a habit of holding forth for hours on the telephone to friends in Paris, began to suspect that her walls had ears. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z "Just look at the French Revolution! Look at their motto—Equality, Liberty, Fraternity. That was their battle cry! Those are things we've given up, that the Nazis have taken from us." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z When I help him with French, he thanks me a thousand times. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Most of it I do not understand, it is so hard to decipher and I scarcely know any French. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z One of three men who had been sitting on the beds came up and asked us if we spoke French. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The abbey is fortified and in its time has been an outpost against the Vikings, the French, the English, and the Bretons. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z Alba’s name was entered in the Civil Registry and in the books of the parish with her father’s French surname, but she never used it because her mother’s was much easier to spell. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z A woman was giving a lesson in French. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He is particularly mute when he and Moushumi get together for dinners with groups of her French friends, drinking Pernods and feasting on couscous or choucroute, smoking and arguing around paper-covered tables. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Even though Joseph had studied French in school for many years, he wasn’t sure what that meant. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z When Julie Landsman auditioned for the role of principal French horn at the Met, the screens had just gone up in the practice hall. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Generose, who spoke Swahili, some French, and Kirundi—the language of Bujumbura and western Burundi—knew only a few words of English. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z How often he and his companions had played that heroic battle, in the ruins of the old fort, taking turns to be Danes and French! The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z And Tab, who had always spoken French at home but almost never raised her hand at school, became kind of a know-it- all. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z ‘Because nothing helps you make friends faster than a rotting corpse with a French accent.’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z Alyce knocked at the midwife’s door, surprised at how the French roses had grown since last she was there. The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Early in life, she’d expressed an interest in the sciences, but her father thought she’d have no culture and so at Cambridge, she studied French literature. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I can still hear the whistle—two toots for French’s, three for Van Camp’s—and she and Chizu would be out of bed in the middle of the night, heading for the cannery. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z That afternoon, Catherine’s birthday party was attended by many friends, French, Haitian, and African, including current and former PIH-ers. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The French arrive in Rhode Island, beginning a series of moves that will fool the British into expecting an American-French attack on New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In French he says, “There will be a—a Wajfenruhe. Stopping in the fighting. At noon. So people can get out of the city. I can get you out.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z On Friday morning I went to my French class. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Having undertaken the study of Hard French, I’ll overhear such requests and glare across the room, thinking, "That's Mister Steak to you, buddy." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Carte'sian, relating to the philosophy of Descartes: a French philosopher of the 17th century. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Stephen pronounces his name like he’s French, but his family is from Springfield and I know for a fact he’s never been to France. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z She sets plates of steaming scrambled cheese eggs, French toast, golden hash brown rounds, and fried green tomatoes on the table. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z I had chosen the words myself, wanting to show off my French, hoping to please my father by bringing attention to us. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z I’d been reading modem French novels, and William Faulkner as well. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z One recommended improvements to the public health office, while another suggested that the fever had been imported from the West Indies by French immigrants. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The shoulder of the road is ground zero for a meteor shower of bottles, cans, tires, hubcaps, French fry holders, and discarded shopping bags. Shine! 2019-11-05T00:00:00Z In 1763 the French capitulated and the Seven Years’ War was over. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z Then the French doctor was made to collect the parts. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The British followed by turning Barbados into a sugar island; then the French found rich soil on Hispaniola all over again. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Chocolate mousse, which of course means ‘foam’ and not an antlered cousin of elk, has been a staple of French cuisine since the eighteenth century.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z I heard a Dutch voice, and an English one, and behind me came the most beautiful French voice I had ever heard, though I didn’t understand a word of his song. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z She wished she were fluent in Hausa and Yoruba, like her uncle and aunt and cousin were, something she would gladly exchange her French and Latin for. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Joseph recognized him immediately as the French fishmonger from the market. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z I was startled that the French philosopher could so perfectly characterize the racists of our Southern states. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z French officials made sure that French markings on the cannon were removed in case the British captured them in battle. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She is even taller than von Linden, and her French has all the same broad twangy American vowels as her English. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Regardless of their nationalities, everyone spoke in what sounded to me like excellent French. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He said his great-grandfather was a French missionary who had been beaten senseless by a mob in his family’s village. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The little boy just wiped his nose, looked up at his mom, and said, “French fries.” The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z At the time he had a French colleague who managed GE’s power generator business for the scanners out of France. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z And, in the few hours of the morning set aside for lessons, they learned French, Italian, and German. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Ground, sea, and air troops from the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada, supported by the French resistance, stormed onto the beaches of Normandy in France. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z Windmills were a great power Painted around 1490 by the French artist RobinetTestard, this picture shows people collecting aloe wood as it floats down a river from the Garden of Eden. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z In much the same way that priests and sorcerers have created gods and demons throughout history, and in which thousands of French curés were still creating Christ’s body every Sunday in the parish churches. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Dinwiddie needed someone rugged enough to plunge into the wilderness, yet wise enough to deal with those clever French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Herr Thiessen is friendly with several French winemakers and has made clocks for many of them. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z At that point, the bell went, and they had to put their game away and turn the desks around and settle down, sighing heavily, to French. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Leah passes me a note in French class, and my heart starts pounding, thinking it could be a message from him. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z That’s when I thanked them for the French fries and excused myself. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been in Paris for several weeks when, one afternoon, returning from a French lesson, I stopped at a café to check my email. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Later, some of Half King’s men took Washington to a house where a French flag flew. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z My dad would brag to guests that his daughter spoke the best French, and I was so proud. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z For example, the French eat small portions and don’t go back for seconds. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Another French vessel anchored in Boston Harbor at about the same time. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Late in 1943, an unusual section of the French Air Force, later known as the Normandie-Niemen Regiment, had joined the Soviet troops to defend them in the air. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z If the Americans had one, the Soviets had to have one, and then the British, the French, the Chinese, the Indians, the Pakistanis ... Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z She still hoped to begin French and Latin as soon as practical. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The French had tired of a greedy queen who ate cake. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z Three Marks & Spencer's French Fancies, I ate, straight out of the packet. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Then he said something in some other language that wasn’t French. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Marian took classes in German and French, studied with a famous teacher of German lieder, and met many people in London’s close-knit music community. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I could be speaking French in another universe. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He speaks proper French, but she can tell that he is German. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z British agents sent numerous reports to their case officers, tracking the French as they set out from Rhode Island to join up with the Americans. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z We pretended this tall guy with a black mustache was a French painter here to find the woman he’d met in Paris years ago. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The students spent the entire hour speaking in French about suntanning. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “Read in the paper, afternoon paper, what they ordered for their last meal? Ordered the same menu. Shrimp. French fries. Garlic bread. Ice cream and strawberries and whipped cream. Understand Smith didn’t touch his much.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Crowned queen a year after purchasing the 1546 Amati violins, she introduced to the French court what amounted to a complete lifestyle after the Italian fashion. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Sander and I tried to track her down there, but neither of us knew enough French to make much headway. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The French Film Academy, through the intervention of Rene Tabard, arranged for money to be given to the Melies family, and some of that money went into furnishing Hugo’s room. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z I’m sitting at the table eating my dinner out of paper bags—a hamburger, French fries, and soda. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z When those in the central plateau staged a rebellion—refusing to be treated as slaves—their insurrection was put down violently by Marine-supervised Haitian police, not unlike the French masters had done to their ancestors. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z If the French kept expanding their hold, they could link their southern lands with New France. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She went to Chinatown three times a week, thinking of it as one more foreign quarter of Shanghai, like the British concession, or the French. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought you said he was a Frenchman. He talks French,” the captain said. A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z In 1789, just as George Washington was sworn into office in the newly founded United States, the French Revolution began. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I check the French doors to the garden three times, but they’re locked. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The quality of Kreacher’s cooking had improved dramatically ever since he had been given Regulus’s locket: Today’s French onion was as good as Harry had ever tasted. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z I'm about four feet away, looking at them through the French doors that open to the front hall from the parlor. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Zero was so important to the new set of numbers that people started calling all numbers ciphers, which gave the French their term chiffre, digit. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z The French feels old-fashioned, the dots printed much closer together than she is used to. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Her corn-yellow hair is tamed into a tight French braid, but a few strands of silver hair flash in the candlelight. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z He signals a charge to encircle the French. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z There were some novels in French and a new book about art by David Hockney. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z At last!’” continued Kate, who had read French novels, and admired the style. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z As he passed Reynaud’s Bakery Lee came out, carrying a golden loaf of French bread. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z In 1959 several British and French research teams found their independent studies pointing to a common conclusion — that some of humanity’s ills are caused by a disturbance of the normal chromosome number. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z A beautiful French spy escapes murderous Gestapo agents in Paris; in the North Sea, British navy sailors brave a suicide mission against enemy submarines. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z So our little intrigues played out while women whispered over the backs of the sofas and men, after supper, passed the port and listened to tales of the wars against the French and the Indians. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Honeyman, who had fought heroically in the French and Indian War, told everyone that he was still loyal to England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom was behind the counter, and Jess and the twins were at a booth, munching on French fries and trying to focus on their homework. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z Graceful phrases fell from his lips in polished French. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z It was my second month of French class, and the teacher was leading us in an exercise designed to promote the use of one, our latest personal pronoun. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Any silver that English or French pirates could steal from the Spanish was also ideal for buying Asian cloth. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The lamp on Dr. Roland’s desk cast a warm, buttery circle of light and, after turning the radio on low to the classical station in Boston, I settled on the couch with my French grammar. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z “Oui,” you tell him, utilizing the summation of almost three years of high school French. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z She was aware of the breeze strengthening, pushing one French window closed, before dying down once more. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z To understand the rise of Christianity or the French Revolution, it is not enough to comprehend the interaction of genes, hormones and organisms. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “How can I say it in French if I don’t speak French?” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z They have trouble understanding his French because of his Dutch accent. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It’s pretty cozy sitting next to Abby and smelling her magical French toast scent, while we watch the freshmen take turns racing in the chairs. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z This was easy for him to do, for he discovered that the Venetians, moved by other motives, had turned to bringing the French back into Italy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “Yes," I say, “but this is the French dark. It's...darker than the dark we have back home." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But his general gist seemed to be close to his lordship's, concluding with a call for a freezing of German reparation payments and the withdrawal of French troops from the Ruhr region. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Attempted Sabotage of Poitou River Bridge on Tours-Poitiers Road, with intention of stopping German military bus carrying 24 French and Allied prisoners—Wed. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z In his second period French class, he opened the letter and placed it inside his book. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But when Nat and Captain Prince went on shore, they found the custom officials conducted all their business in French. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I tried it both in French and in English but found my enthusiasm waned after the word almost. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z There was another awkward pause before Sir David said, rather uncertainly: 'We English have often had a different way of looking at such things from the French, Mr Lewis.' The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z I guessed her accent was French without being sure. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z French rockets go up, which unfold a silk parachute to the air and drift slowly down. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z "It is a mikvah," she says in a French accent. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He pronounced it the French way, so the T was silent. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Yes, it is, my dear,” said a man’s voice in a heavy French accent. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z The vase she was looking for was on an American cherry-wood table by the French windows which were slightly ajar. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Graves’s fleet could not reach Cornwallis without first breaking through the French fleet. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I joined a weekly study group to practice French, and another to learn knitting. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Some man came by to see Lice last night,” she said, “just before he ran off. A big bald-headed guy with a weird foreign accent—French or Russian or something.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Having used up her single French phrase, she speaks Kikongo unabashedly, as though there were no other language on earth. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Napoleon was thrilled, and he ordered the French to begin planting thousands of acres of beets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z I did not know any French people, and nothing around me suggested I ever would. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z He obliged, pinching his thumb and forefinger together and shaking them in the air for emphasis, like a French chef on a TV commercial. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z My Spring is gone, however, but it has left me that French floweret on my hands, which, in some moods, I would fain be rid of. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z My mother started right off with complicated arithmetic, and since she didn’t know French, she said she would teach me Latin. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “I assume you’re deep in thought about the French Revolution, Ms. Burke. Care to weigh in?” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z The prisoners were led inside and shown exhibits celebrating Vietnam’s bloody victory over the French and the ongoing fight against America. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then John the chieftain slowly translated my speech into high-school English and put it back into Canadian French. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z French editor Octave Uzanne called it “that Gordian city, so excessive, so satanic.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On the first day of November the Second Division left Wellington, presumably on maneuvers at Hawke Bay again, but ending up instead at Noumea on the French island of New Caledonia. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z The British were upset over the seizure, and wanted their ship back, while the French were upset that the ship was being detained until the president could decide what to do. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Jutta clutches her bag between her knees; she is certain that he was wounded in the war, that he will try to start a conversation, that her deficient French will betray her. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Bologne, the first mixed-race colonel in the French Army, was thereupon abandoned by all his previous patrons and friends, and died in impoverished obscurity. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z We talked Spanish and the critic knew a little French. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z "Well,” Dad said, "they are very entertaining. They are French and German language lesson records. You don’t have to listen to them consciously. Just play them. And they’ll finally make an impression.” Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z Treasury hundred dollar bill, and the dentist is saying, sadly, in French, “I think we can save the molar, but I’m afraid that tongue will have to come out.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Voice of America was reporting it, as was French radio, which Olanna translated: Tanzania was the first country to recognize the existence of the independent nation of Biafra. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z She measured out the French dressing in a cup and poured it on the string-bean salad. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Rev. J. E. Poindexter, Secretary I walked to the same shoeshine stand in the French Quarter that I had been visiting as a white man. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z When the story finished, we turned the radio back on and found someone speaking French. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He doesn't need to worry because I know for a fact that Mai's not leaving this place until she's finished her French fries. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Then, when she was all done whispering and being cute as hell, she'd sing some dopey song, half in English and half in French, and drive all the phonies in the place mad with joy. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z I remember a movie I watched in first grade about a red balloon that chased a French boy throughout the streets of Paris. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z I checked my bags at the Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter and began walking. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like you can’t just tell them about your French teacher’s obvious wedgie, or Garrett dropping his tray in the cafeteria. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson purchased, from the French, the Territory of Louisiana, which contained lands dominated by the Osage. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z At the age of forty-one, I am returning to school and have to think of myself as what my French textbook calls "a true debutant." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Girls walked arm in arm at B&I, the way French schoolgirls do. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z On the one hand, the country was already waging an undeclared war against French privateers in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She had teased Boubacar about Francophone Africans, how battered their minds were by the French and how thin-skinned they had become, too aware of European slights, and yet too enamored of Europeanness. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z On one earlier assignment he’d been a French merchant; on another an Arab businessman. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z By the time of the next appearance of Europeans on the lower Mississippi, that of French settlers in the late 1600s, almost all of those big Indian towns had vanished. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Many citizens felt Washington’s Proclamation of Neutrality was a betrayal of the French people. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z All he knew was that the French commander was somewhere in the Ohio wilderness, about 300 miles from Williamsburg. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z By the end of August, the French colony was in flames. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The doctors took trips to France, the United States, Scotland, and Mexico to study new techniques that were being developed—especially those of French surgeon Paul Tessier, whose pioneering work was fundamental. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Or, more accurately, Roosevelt tried to converse in French. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z I don’t know how long I waited, paralyzed with indecision, but I was still wondering if there was time to escape when the French doors opened and Shawn walked in. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z That night, Dad moved the boys’ bathroom victrola into his bedroom, and we heard him playing French records, far into the night. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z "My family's been in Louisiana for decades and my mother has French blood, believe it or not. My skin might look like coffee-no-cream, but I've got some au lait in here somewhere." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z If I am caught writing this I will be in trouble, whoever catches me—German, French, British. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I read a little Oscar Wilde for English and practiced vocabulary for French. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The situation was made worse in April by the arrival of the French republic’s new minister, Edmond Charles Genêt. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Each member nation had its own specific interests because each had had different experiences in the previous 150 years of British and French intrusion, including the French and Indian War. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z I put down my copy of French Vogue. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “Show’s not till eight,” she says in her Breton French, and he nods as he limps past. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z If we were feeling sophisticated, we ordered the French dip. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z But suddenly Abby’s talking like we’re the kind of friends who go to parties and take selfies and split French fries at midnight. Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z She picked up a small ax kept by the woodstove and struck French with its blunt end, catching him off guard and hurling him into and through the front door. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “I shouldn’t have to wake you up. You should be awake and ready like the rest of the men. Like French, here.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Because of this, he began to seek out new allies and to vacillate with France during the campaign the French undertook in the Kingdom of Naples against the Spaniards besieging Gaeta. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z There were journals in English, French, German, Russian, Italian, and even one collection in Chinese. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z Except now Calvin showed me that French people put an X on the end of some words. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z He had saved the French fleet from attack. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve got two tests next week,” Rachel said, “so I thought maybe we could get a jump on the French Revolution project?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z Mr. Clyde stuck the fork in Vendor Reilly’s muffler and ordered him out of the garage, threatening him with dismissal if he didn’t show up early to begin working the French Quarter. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of the problem is that I have no one to talk to except for the members of my current French class, who mean well but exhaust me with their enthusiasm. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Rishi tried to catch Dimple’s eye, but she kept shoveling in French fry after French fry like she was punishing them with her teeth. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He says that forty years ago the French had a colony at Fort Caroline in Florida. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “He is a French knight who calls himself the Chevalier Mai Fet I told you I was right about Sir Lancelot being dead.” The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z “We call Spanish a romance language, Kojo, because it, like Portuguese, French, Italian, and Romanian, originated from Latin, the language spoken in the western Roman Empire.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z Buchi would not go to the French school, of that he was sure. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z I hadn’t figured him for a deep interest in Greek cooking or French museums. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z He nodded toward the kitchen, where María was preparing another batch of French toast. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The papers were covered in swift, spidery handwriting, in black ink, which was hard to read; it seemed to be a sort of long argument about mathematics, all in French. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z He called her Betty and sent her French sonnets, as well as ardent lines about midnight meetings, written in a bold, dashing hand. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z I toss my backpack into my locker and pull out my books for English and French. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z Naturally, in 1790, Antoine Lavoisier, caught up in the midst of the French Revolution, declared that he was making a revolution in chemistry. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z From this, it came about that the French were not strong enough to match the Swiss, and without the Swiss they did not test their chances. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z If he married soon, “I never should know French,—or see the Continent,—or go to America, or go up in a Balloon, or take solitary trip in Wales....” Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z "I suppose you have lots and lots of affairs in Cambridge," I told Irwin cheerily, as I stuck a snail with a pin in one of Cambridge's determinedly French restaurants. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z The house—or what remains of it—is grand: twenty French windows in the facade, big freshly painted shutters, manicured hedges out front. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z He surprised me by switching to rough French; he must have gone to school at some point. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The French he had met were generous, or otherwise lost to their own miseries. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z His intent was to make himself secure against the French, and he would have immediately succeeded in this if Alexander had lived. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z In 1212, a French shepherd boy had a vision that the Holy Land could be recovered by innocent children. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z To be as thirsty as I was, you'd have to be in the French Foreign Legion and lost somewhere out in the Sahara for a week. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z But when the Nazis had come to power in 1933, he refused ever to play again in Germany, became a French citizen, and moved to the United States. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z They saw Gobelin tapestries at the French Pavilion and the life-mask of Abraham Lincoln among the exhibits of the American Bronze Company. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z It was only after the French discovered similar paintings, partially obscured by millennia-old mineral deposits, that the Altamira drawings were pronounced authentic. The Annotated Mona Lisa 1992-06-01T00:00:00Z Therefore, it has been seen, and experience will show, that the Spanish cannot withstand French cavalry and that Spanish infantrymen can destroy the Swiss. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z During the French and Indian War, Washington and other people living in America thought of themselves as British, subjects of the king, and citizens of their colony. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Very neatly dressed in a little black suit with a French grey shirt, the smooth waves of her dark head were neat and unruffled. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z II. French-Latin words—that is, Latin words introduced through the French—can often be readily distinguished by their being more changed in form than the Latin terms directly introduced into our language. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was ten. When my other friend died,” I say, staring at the French tips on my nails. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Maybe an ice cream cone, or ketchup from French fries. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “It means that animals make our hearts happy in a very special way. A French man named Anatole France said that a long time ago.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z As the two men tramped through snow-covered woods, several “French Indians,” as Washington called them, suddenly appeared. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The only word I knew in French was bonjour, which did me no good. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Chevalier was a professor of French literature at Berkeley and the host of the Communist discussion group at which Oppenheimer had been spotted by the FBI about two years earlier. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z “Three of them,’’ he said, “and flying French colors.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Most days Frau Elena works close by, wearing a torn ski jacket she has found, mumbling to herself in French or singing songs from childhood. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The French were barely able to sustain trading posts in the St. Lawrence and didn’t even try to plant their flag in pre-epidemic New England. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z And she warns as he’s walking out the door, “Avoid ordering a cafe creme unless it’s morning. The French never do that.” The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In two years of fighting, nearly 50,000 French soldiers died. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Here and there SS officers sat apart, at their own tables, chatting, laughing, drinking French wine, and attacking beefsteaks or sauerbraten with knives and forks. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He approached a fruit stand in the French market and began taking photographs. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z I don’t know if it was my mood or whether it was just Les Misérables itself, but I spent the next hour feeling helplessly pounded by French misery. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He spoke with a French accent, and there was a gap between his front teeth. The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Through the French windows I saw Squelch playing Twister with two younger kids and a man I guessed was their dad. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z “I was at the abbey for seven years. I learned how to pray. How to be silent. I learned to read Latin, French, even English. There’s that. It keeps me from the gallows.” Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z It lay on a bedside table inside a French painting by an artist named Auguste Bernard. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Half the time he doesn't know whether he's using his CIA crash course in Spanish or his prep school Latin or his college French. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z The nuns I’d had in grades one and two were mysterious, unknowable, but Mr. French was a civilian. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z His fountain pen flashed through her French assignments. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She loses things, such as combs and also her French homework. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z I've spent quite a few summers in Normandy, and I took a monthlong French class before leaving New York. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A helpful chart from the city categorized every home as a Tudor, English, or French style and laid out the appropriate colors for architects and homeowners alike. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I wanted to learn French because I wanted to read Balzac’s dialog in French. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z My fear had nothing to do with the actual French people. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z A nationalistic approach also began informing his choice of subject matter, especially after the Germans defeated the French in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The pumpkin seeds wore little silver patches, like French medals, and Nokomis blessed them gently as she pushed them into the soft new earth. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z The French had taken over the house after throwing out the English trader who had lived there. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm named after one of my mom's writer heroes, but I think Grandma Rose likes it because it's French, and not Indian. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “At present,” he observed, “there is no more prospect of seeing a French army here than there is in Heaven.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The stacks of Nahuatl manuscripts in Mexican archives depict the tlamatinime meeting to exchange ideas and gossip, as did the Vienna Circle and the French philosophes and the Taisho-period Kyoto school. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Then, with nothing to do until my French class at five o’clock, I began turning over in my mind this question of sports. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “French toast,” he said at last, and grew silent for a long period before inclining his head towards me very slightly and saying: “You?” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z At Geneva, there were no residual hard feelings; Lawrence and Veksler shared a friendly dinner at the city’s finest French restaurant, comparing notes on the technologies that had made their careers. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Had I read The Little Prince in English or French, I suspect this question might have been quite easy. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z From the symbols on their helmets, I knew the soldiers weren't French or English. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z Her windows looked out into the forest, and she had French doors that opened to a stepping-stone path. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z If Ruth May had been feeling up to snuff she’d have already climbed aboard and started jabbering with the Fowles children in probably all those languages plus French and Siamese. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Her parents still live in Egypt, and her husband is French. They met when he was studying in Cairo.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z What scared me was the idea of French people I'd gotten from movies and situation comedies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “What? His only mode of speaking is yelling, and sometimes he barks orders in French and I have no idea what he’s saying.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z The battered French girl and I were taken together down through the cellars and out to a little stone courtyard that must once have been the hotel’s laundry. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It was still a farmhouse in 1890, when her daddy died and her stepmother went to live with a grown son, Mr. French Gordy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z She lifted one with a French cafe painted on it. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z If these faraway intellectuals were much concerned with the lessons of native life, what about English and French colonists themselves, who knew intact native cultures for some three centuries? 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z She says she wants to try their French fries. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Dr. Jean Devèze, a recent French arrival, condemned Rush with a passion: “He, I say, is a scourge more fatal to the human kind than the plague itself would be.” An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Not all,” Grandma counters with just a hint of the French accent that remains from her childhood in the orphanage. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z We spoke mostly French and some Swahili, not the language of my people, Kinyamulenge. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z All in French, probably very bad French—never imagined I could dream in French! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Their French is barely adequate and they seem more interested in their questions than his answers. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z About two years after Hunt’s offenses, a French ship wrecked at the tip of Cape Cod. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “But I don’t speak a word of French.” Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z If they run into Germans, he will speak only French, say he is helping her leave the city. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z On their first few aggressive missions together, the French pilots didn’t even realize that the pilots and navigators of the Pe-2s’ crews of three were women. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z The school’s instructors were priests from the Oblates of St. Francis de Sales, an order dedicated to a seventeenth-century French cleric known for his sunniness and kindness who is sometimes called the “gentleman saint.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z I ordered orange juice and coffee and a side order of toast and hot chocolate and French fries, too, even though I knew I wouldn’t be able to pay for any of it. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Why,” she says, lurching through the French, “would my brother have a miniature reproduction of this house?” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I’m working hard at French, cramming five irregular verbs into my head every day. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Very soon, in any case, a new Italian sound was to dominate European music once again, leaving both the French opera and ballet styles in its wake. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z This little French town has no factories, no supplies, and it is far from the front line. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z As she pulls out a ticket he inquires, first in French and then in English when she does not catch his meaning, if she might know whom he could contact about the clock. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z I wondered if it helped his French horn playing to have such long fingers, like a pianist. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I begin my school day in a French class; in the afternoon, it’s Chinese; and in the evening, I am busy with my Khmer class. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He swung the baby bonobo up into his arms and greeted me in Lingala, not the French that Congo’s educated classes use. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z The ultimate success of esperimento reflects, just like the phrase philosophie experimental in French, the influence of the English language and of English science. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Its slated turrets, conical in the French fashion, crowded from complicated battlements in a hundred unexpected aspirations. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z In the rest room, I saw the remains of a loaf of French bread lying on the floor beside the waste bin. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Late the next afternoon, when Nat had a few minutes of free time in the chandlery, he opened the New Testament in French. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He crunched one of the French fries he gripped in a greasy bag on his lap. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z She wanted a birthday cake with her family, and she wanted Layla to sing “Happy Birthday” in French like she’d done every year since she started learning the language in eighth grade. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “All of my early work was in French. I didn’t know you spoke my language.” Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “You speak as if your tongue were a saw and English words were made of wood. You have a French accent.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z He piled on top ketchup, mustard, relish, a tomato slice from his own cheeseburger super deluxe, a few rings of onion, five French fries. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Not to mention the fact that she was wearing a red jacket, a fedora, a cane, and had a French chauffeur. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z I would blush, looking quite attractive in my new dress— French, of course. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She swore softly in French, a single violent word of disappointment. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “You . . . were . . . supposed . .. ?” the man stammered, obviously unused to French. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Bringing empty trunks down the attic stairs they sounded like coffins French Lick. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I horrify the French every time I open my mouth. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Mr. French being Granny’s stepbrother, his wife felt like they were kin and had a right to speak up in the family. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Many French intellectuals were already discussing the possibility of a political revolution in the years preceding 1789, and after 1776 the American Revolution presented them with a model. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Surely they must be French or English soldiers coming to our rescue! The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z In the castle of Benwick, the French boy was looking at his face in the polished surface of a kettle-hat It flashed in the sunlight with the stubborn gleam of metal. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z The French one was my favorite—it was the one she did the most. The Boy in the Black Suit 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Throughout the Adams presidency, Jefferson and his Republican followers had been insisting that the French Revolution was the American Revolution on European soil and that France was therefore America’s major international ally. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z She and French later reconciled and they had another baby, a daughter, Marilyn, but their life together remained chaotic and dismal, living in broken-down houses, working long hours for little pay. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t worry. No need to explain to me. You’re a good man, French. I already know that.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Step forth and give your assistance in building the Frigate to oppose French insolence and piracy. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He tells me how he heard that the Spanish came and massacred all of the French settlers—men, women, and children. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “I haven’t had French toast in years. My dad really got into making BLTs on toasted tortillas every morning instead.” They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Instead, both Odile and Francis thought the best tactic for getting a foot in the door was to commence French lessons with Pop, whose deceased husband had been the Professor of French before the war. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z I had by then withdrawn from French class because I wasn’t able to concentrate with the combined pressure of the extremely hostile students and coping with everything else. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “I won’t ask you to come with us, French. I wouldn’t do that to you.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z “Just as good as they serve at the French Market. I’m making some more now. You want a cup?” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Beginning French, Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, a total of three hours a week. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I love listening to Pa speak French to his colleagues and that’s why I like learning the language, even if the teacher is mean and I don’t like her. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z From a thousand miles away I heard Miigwan’s call, “French! Come back.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z We can hear the faint static emanating from the trunk, and the spooky, distant voices speaking French and English. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Jefferson himself thought in this French fashion, Adams claimed, confusing the seductive prospects envisioned in his imagination with the more limited possibilities history permitted. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z "The French knew how to overthrow oppression and tyranny. We could learn a lot from the French." The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z Sierra forked a load of French toast into her mouth. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z Daniel Chester French’s “Statue of the Republic”—nicknamed “Big Mary”—stood in the basin complete and gleaming, its entire surface gilded. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z But no Proto-Indo-European word can be reconstructed for “gun,” which uses different roots in different modern Indo-European languages: “gun” in English, “fusil” in French, “ruzhyo” in Russian, and so on. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z One of the French sailors had learned enough Massachusett to inform his captors before dying that God would destroy them for their misdeeds. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z They even argue about what language to speak: Vincent wants to speak French, but Jo and her brother are more comfortable with Dutch. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Up on Coalwood Mountain. That shack off the road, about a third of the way down. She fixed me French toast. She wanted me to be sure to tell you about it.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Her husband, French Wilson, had found a job at the Central Leaf Tobacco factory and had sent for her and the baby, enclosing a one-way bus ticket along with his letter. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Bridge thought that intruder drills belonged to the very small set of things that are even less fun than French. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z So the word is ‘chat,’ which, by the way, could also be ‘chat,’ the French word for cat!” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “So, Nat,” I say, like I would to a normal sister, “what would you think about two people who talk all the time in French class?” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z French culture includes a set of customs or rules about how to eat. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Theo pulled her crust to pieces and arranged three crumbs in an inverted L-shape to imitate torches blazing in a dark French meadow. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z When the French soldiers invited Washington to dinner, he eagerly accepted, hoping that he could get some information. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, no, it is I who must thank you, mademoiselle”—says he, in French—“for you have mended my choke!” Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z “Hey, French, you want to come with me to look for mushrooms?” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z It was a French column, hardly more than a detachment—three armored cars, two half-tracks and two troop carriers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z We visited an army unit at the front, and at one point I took a pair of field glasses and could actually see French troops across the border. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Turtle preferred not to explain how she knew the library could be entered from the French doors on the lawn. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z French fries were really terrible when they were cold, but these were hot and crispy. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Courses in English, French, math and history offered at any hour of the day or night. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The most recent breezes had carried him into the Republican camp as a staunch defender of the French Revolution, which was the chief reason Abigail thought that Gerry “had a kink in his head.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The TV shows folks partying in the French Quarter. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z "I can't seem to remember much French since we got off the plane," I say, changing the subject. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “There’s this new girl at the Bean Bar. She says French is the language of love. And that’s why she refuses to speak it.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Of course, that looks an impractical kind of position to us in the United States, but what's always puzzled me is how you English don't seem to share the view of the French. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z He speaks fluent French and says that’s how he’s able to succeed in his career. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He said it was the best poetry ever written, and that even in French, the language of the arts, there was nothing to compare it to. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She’s invited hundreds of society people whom she doesn’t even know, and insists that the food be French— pheasants and eels and God knows what else. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “He says French women are the most beautiful in the world.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Mother Lois spoke fluent French; she often gave Conrad and me lessons over the dinner table. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Back home, the idea of French had seemed like a parlor game anyhow. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z With her Arabic and French, Luma was able to translate documents and answer some of their questions. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Then she’d dressed me in the most ridiculous dress — deep blue, frilly and off the shoulders, with French tags I couldn’t read — a dress more suitable for a runway than Forks. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z They passed their insights to the French and the British just before Germany attacked Poland in 1939. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Halfway through class, Madame O’Malley turned around to write something in French on the blackboard, and Alaska passed me a note. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z He claims he’s listening to French classical, that it helps him concentrate. The Crossover 2014-03-18T00:00:00Z How fine it might have been, to end a days ramble in the French countryside, walking into the setting sun. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z On the beach of French Island, Mr. Patterson took the urn in two hands and shook it up a little. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Normally she would have noticed that Chess had barely eaten two bites and that Finn had licked all the syrup off his second piece of French toast but not actually bitten into it. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z The French horn—like the trombone—is a “male” instrument. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “Well, the Cajun is part English and part French. And some can speak English anyway, but just don’t bother. People here, they do things as they want.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes she won’t let me go to the bathroom until I ask permission in French. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Another example is the Algerian revolution, led by Ben Bella; they threw out the French who had been there over 100 years. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Mommy was a connoisseur of ministers; she knew them the way a French wine connoisseur knows Beaujolais red from Vouvray white. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well, not literally. Come on. We have French.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Why can I remember the details of the French Revolution but I can’t remember if I ever had a best friend? The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z If you were Boyfriend and Girlfriend, you did not visit each other's homes; you registered for after-school lessons, for French Club, for anything that could mean seeing each other outside school. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I’m sensitive to light in the morning,” he says in French, while I read his translation. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Rae returns with drinks, hands a grilled chicken salad to Rufus, and places sweet potato fries and French toast in front of me. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She opens her purse and unwraps the partially crushed wooden house and says in her best French, “My brother had this. I believe he found it here. During the war.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Mama stood there on Mr. French’s arm like she was looking at a man with a tail. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z These practices Julius not only continued but also increased, and he planned to capture Bologna, to wipe out the Venetians, and to drive the French out of Italy. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z “Thank you, monsieur,” I say, using my best fake French accent. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z So the word ‘fact’ in its modern sense becomes respectable in English only after 1661, while in French it was at first a word particularly associated with Jansenism. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z When the French and Indian War ended, the French left the region, ceding to the British all the land they had claimed east of the Mississippi River. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z The French aid had been a major reason why Washington was able to surround and force General Charles Cornwallis to surrender at Yorktown in 1781. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z “Can you hear what I am saying?” the red-haired French teacher would ask me, impatiently. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z According to the rules of Mensa France, the test instructions were delivered in French, but I understood every word. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z For a while now she had been examining the archives documenting the lives of French slave masters and their commerce in West Africa. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She doesn’t speak French to the waiter, who is French himself, but the way she pronounces the items on the menu makes it clear that she is fluent. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z This morning as I was on my way to the attic to hang up my apron, Father asked whether I wanted to stay and practice my French, and I said yes. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Dad had named me after her; Mom suggested adding the second N to make it more elegant and French. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Père Lafontant—père is the French word for “father” or “priest”—was a small but imposing man with a forceful manner, especially when he spoke of life in the central plateau. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z She returned to our room, stopping at the vanity to pluck at her tendrils and smooth her French roll. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “I hear you want to study French, Mr. Bowditch? Maybe we could trade lessons. You could help me with my English, and I’ll help you with French.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Eighteenth-century English and French scientists rejected the ample testimony as to the reality of meteorites, as we reject stories of alien abduction. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He gets to his feet, walks over to the French doors and pulls back the curtain. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z He was mediocre in English, social studies, French, and computer science, and well below average in math and science. Ungifted 2012-08-21T00:00:00Z Not surprisingly, those government purity specifications are based on what German breweries put into beer, and not on what American, French, and Swedish breweries like to put into beer. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z How could such a weak fool have risen to the highest post in the French church? The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z It's a common mistake for vacationing Americans to assume that everyone around them is French and therefore speaks no English whatsoever. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Overseers watched closely to make sure of that, beating slaves who did not carve out at least twenty-eight holes an hour on one French island. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They shook their heads in incomprehension, even the boy who spoke French. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Pe Pierre keeps a box for old newspapers, in French or Creole, some even in Spanish, which is hard to read. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “The only French food I’ve ever eaten is French fries,” I confess. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z That Roman bell would be lucky to get work cleaning up after a French bell's dog—and even then he'd need papers. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z I knew Mr. French would be upset about the wedding. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z So, yeah, I spent a lot of my time at home studying math and memorizing French vocab, just like I had before Culver Creek. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z In effect, Jay’s Treaty was a repudiation of the Franco-American alliance of 1778, which had been so instrumental in gaining French military assistance for the winning of the American Revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The fourth contained a row of French windows looking out onto the spacious theater grounds below. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z And they’re off again, hustling through rooms of Chinese art and French sculptures. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z Candidate instructors, it stipulated, were to have a fluent knowledge of both the French and English languages, and only those of temperate habits and unquestionable character need apply. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z I also observed that his name, backward, was the French verb for wearing one’s clothes threadbare, so I told him that as well, with no offense intended as his clothes were fine. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z After the lineup Anatole marches them into the church and urges them, I guess, to wrestle with their numbers and their French congregations and what not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington believed that the French were building a fleet of canoes “to convey their Forces down in the Spring.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was one of the French people who had lately come to live in the area. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z In the two hours that he had been cruising the French Quarter, he had captured no one. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z As an adolescent, after his father’s death, Liszt and his mother moved to Paris, where he adopted French as his ‘first’ language. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Busy little wild card,” he says in French, his words translating in my view. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Julie Landsman, who plays principal French horn for the Metropolitan Opera in New York, says that she’s found herself distracted by the position of someone’s mouth. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Clearly the artist, George Robertson, wanted it to look peaceful and beautiful, and to make slaves look meek and humble. the sugar islands—if, that is, the colonists or the French followed the rules. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z My school shut down just before the War began, when most of the English and French pupils were pulled out, which is why I went off to university a bit early. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Up-stairs in the office I read the French morning papers, smoked, and then sat at the typewriter and got off a good morning's work. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Perhaps it had been a French boat though, a fishing boat. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z In the late 1800s, long before the start of the Cold War, France took control of Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, ruling the three countries as a colony known as French Indochina. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “And what of other subjects? French? History? Geography?” The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z The first interrogators are French; an hour later they become German. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “What is the matter?” she asked rather breathlessly in French. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z What Cornwallis did not know was that French ships under de Grasse now stood in the way. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Day after day I press my nose against the glass of the French doors, trying to see if Mrs. Smeath is still alive. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “They fit me, French!” she squealed, clomping down the hall one way and then back. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Printed in our textbooks was a list of major holidays accompanied by a scattered arrangement of photographs depicting French people in the act of celebration. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But officially the French aid was not happening. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t even know you liked French fries.” The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z An old wound he had received fighting forty years ago in the French and Indian Wars had stiffened up on him. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The great paradox about the French Revolution is that even as the revolutionaries passed ever more laws to benefit the poor and enslaved, those same leaders turned increasingly zealous in murdering their enemies. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The envelope is addressed to a professor of Comparative Literature who teaches German as well as French. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z He explained how in former centuries, before the arrival of the French, the Abomey kings had enormous palaces and very nice clothes. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z When she tried to speak in French, Bridge felt as if someone had sewn her mouth closed, which made her angry. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Listlessly, they completed their survey, which confirmed that the first French team was correct. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The war was clearly going badly for the French, and commentators were warning that the United States needed to avoid involvement. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Then I worked on an awful math problem and translated three pages of French grammar besides. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The men had been French for the most part, but also German, Persian, Italian, Lebanese. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We recognize the smooth distorted faces, the helmets; they are French. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Hugh tells me that the market is off-limits until my French improves. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The success of scientific theories, particularly Newton’s theory of gravity, led the French scientist the Marquis de Laplace at the beginning of the nineteenth century to argue that the universe was completely deterministic. A Brief History of Time: And Other Essays 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Here in Maine a great many were French Canadians who came over the border for the harvest season. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside there were tapestries on the walls, a suit of armor with French script over the visor, and, in black leotards, Clementine’s slender mother. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She narrates the whole piece like it’s an essay for a French class. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z The other centre of operatic style in the nineteenth century was Paris, though French opera at that time was essentially a grander version of Italian opera. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “They don’t wear any clothes at all. They just paint themselves different colors instead. The sailor said he heard it from a French sailor who has already been to the New World.” Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z Nor could they see the faces of the French brothers. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z But when Emma reached the kitchen, she found Finn already sitting at the table, digging French toast slices out of the dish where Mom had been keeping them warm. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Adams had orchestrated “a libel on the French government” as part of his “swindling experiment.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z And now we get on nicely, and are very glad he came, for he speaks French like a native, and I don’t know what we should do without him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z The two officers spoke in hushed but heated tones in French, and then the female officer indicated that we were to follow her. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z The driver cursed and complained but Paul murmured reassuring words to him in French, as I couldn’t be stopped now. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He realized then that she wasn’t speaking French. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It was a chilly night, and Billy came indoors after a while, closed the French doors. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z At a distance he looked like a French king, all curls and feathers. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sentiment that you have attributed to me in your letter to Dr. Priestley I totally disclaim,” Adams protested, “and I demand in the French sense of the word demand of you the proof.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Mom pulls me off to the side and through a set of French doors. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Mom said those were called manteaux, which was yet another word Farsi may or may not have borrowed from the French. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z With my friends over, I notice how fluidly I move around my home, weaving through tables, greeting our foreign guests by name and even dropping some hellos in English or French or German. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “In school it was mostly English. But my dad was always making me speak French at home. I hated it.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I couldn’t understand her powers of concentration when she rolled a French knot or toiled over a tatted collar in Sewing class at school. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z I walk up to the front parlor, open the French doors slowly so they won't squeak and wake up Dad. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z So was the French driver, who was tired of being shouted at in English by a Slip of a Lass younger than his own daughter. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z So, too, but for the dispute over the Augustinus, the French might have remained in the old world of proof and persuasion, deduction and experience, truth and opinion. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “They’re worthless to your son. Tribal schools don’t use these books, for they are written in French, German, Arabic, Hindu and Chinese, languages which I, too, can’t read.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Before we knew it, she’d brought us plastic trays heaped with double cheeseburgers, vanilla shakes, and XXL servings of French fries. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Sookie and Dad read the charts and determined that French Island, or “French’s Island” as Mr. Patterson called it, was a reasonable ride for a small boat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Great! How much do you know about the French Revolution?” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z Hundreds of hours’ night flying required, and fluent French, and though they could only take volunteers, they were such a secret operation that they weren’t allowed to actively recruit anyone. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z His voice is quiet and rich, his French perfectly exact. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z With a lingering look in their direction, Briony moved toward the French windows. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z It's just I've got this French test?” she said as if it were a question. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z We fling remarks at them in broken French, anything that comes into our heads, hastily and all jumbled together, anything to detain them. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Two multicolored giraffes greeted customers at the entrance of the restaurant, making an arch as you walked through the French double doors. The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Poor as he is, he didn’t forget a servant or a child in the house, and not a soul here, from the French laundrywoman to Miss Norton forgot him. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She also recommended a haircut, but I would only go so far as a French roll, engineered with the help of some big rollers and hair-setting gel and a lot of bobby pins. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Their society showed how disparate elements — French, Islamic, and African — can mingle to create a unique and distinctive culture. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “We used to take a boat—barely seaworthy—out to French’s Island, sit on the beach, and drink Moxie.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z My knowledge of Canuck French derives from motion pictures usually with Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald, and it consists largely of “By gar.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The French vowels had a musical twang, but she could just about understand him. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Her hair was pinned up as usual, but not in the signature French chignon twist she’d been wearing when Maddie had left her last night. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z It isn’t easy to keep yourself clean on the street, and by this hour each of those young women smells in the places that count like a very ripe, soft French cheese . Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Despite being French, Berlioz may as well have been German, so keen was he to assume the Beethovean throne. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z With his shotgun waiting in reserve at home if he needed it, William George marched over to French’s house. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Soon she wouldn’t be seeing Ben every day, and she wasn’t going to pass the French course. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Jimmy said, “How do you say bone in French? French always makes things sound a lot classier.” Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z The air smells like fall coming, plus French fries. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z I think of Flaubert, who spent most of his adult life in the same French village, or Emily Dickinson, whose poems echoed the cadence of the local church bells. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Mostly it was in French and such, but Adah took things down in English in her notebook and held it where I could read it. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, sometimes he reads them poetry. Or he starts talking to them in French. Or singing an aria from an opera. Mr. Brewer has quite a good voice.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z I wish, when I was back in that French class, that I had connected the conjugations, verbs, and gendered nouns to something grander. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z I’m looking in every newspaper, book and document I can find for the family trees of the French, German, Spanish, English, Austrian, Russian, Norwegian and Dutch royal families. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Even he couldn't have translated French letters to Arabic numerals that quickly. An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z If I never learned my French conjugations from Anatole, at least I would try to learn patience. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s masculine, too, in French, not just a plain noun like it is in English. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z I walked through the living room and the dining room, then through the French doors, toward laughter coming from the side patio. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z “Got a little French in you too, eh?” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z The French Congo and the newly independent Republic of Congo are separated by one mere river and about a million miles of contemporaneous modern thinking. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z But I quickly fell behind as Mr. French read the next sentence and I had to rush to catch up. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Did have a French name, now that I think on it. But Sallie likes it.” The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “He put Ex- Lax in the pain au chocolat we sold at the French Club bake sale.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z A French test, and then a comparison between the Mississippi and the Missouri! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “Tyler’s French aside,” Mr. Reed says, raising his eyebrows at the class as if to say he doesn’t approve but will deal with it later, “is that what they’re doing? Asking for handouts?” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z The French were causing trouble again, pushing their way into British land. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She is always flattered when they assume she herself is French, or half-French. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When we didn’t know the name, I’d make one up: pagoda plant, wild confetti, French knot. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington knew that he and his country owed the French an eternal debt. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z I liked how all of the French fencers had strong parries and could easily score after successfully blocking their opponent. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z A jacked-up French roll with what felt like two hundred bobby pins that started itching as soon as she left the chair. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z She says the word “hopscotch,” extending the shhhh sound at the end of the word with a French accent and it sounds glamorous. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z “I’m going to teach you French. They say it better: au revoir. That’s till your return. Good-by always sounds so final.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z For her the color of dog in English is green, but the French word, chien, is light blue. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z “Well too bad. I like French fries. Have you ever considered that you’re embarrassed of yourself?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z Once the lawyer had performed all the right rituals and pronounced all the necessary spells and oaths, millions of upright French citizens behaved as if the Peugeot company really existed. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z You cross Broadway and rush past the Dollar-Eight Diner, where the waitress still calls you French Fry because when you were little that was all you would eat. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Three days later, the world spins wildly again when the British and the French honor their promise to Poland and declare war on Germany. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z She sings French folk songs in a screechy falsetto, harbors a weakness for sherry, and regularly falls asleep standing up. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z I put down the sleeve and went to the French window. Red Scarf Girl: A Memoir of the Cultural Revolution 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In exhibit space, he told them, the fair would be at least one-third larger than what the French had allotted in Paris. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Mr. French would read out a sentence and we had to write it down as neatly as we could. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z “Dear Charles—my God this is a big city. They speak French and Spanish both. I’m sending you a book.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Their officers claimed, with supercilious air, that they practiced speed and marksmanship in case the French should invade; but we all of us knew for what eventuality they prepared. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z The Ring also called for the invention of subsequently dubbed 'Wagner tubas, a hybrid that combined elements of the French horn, trombone and euphonium. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “Watch out for French spies,” he told them. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z We sat on boxes in the sunlight with our backs against the wall and watched traffic come and go in the French Market. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The open French windows framed a greenish sky, and against that, in silhouette at some distance, the familiar head and shoulders of her brother. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z One of the black secretaries asked the French woman what she was doing here. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His expression—and my word for it came straight out of a French edition of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu books—was inscrutable. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z She pronounced it, as she thought, in the French way, monosyllabically, but without quite getting her tongue round the r. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z I made it to grade three, where I had my first male teacher, Mr. French. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z There are five in all, and the main one—the one I’m sure Oprah Winfrey stayed in—stares down at us with its beige paint and white trim, gold handles for the glass French doors. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “I think I’ve got time to make you some French toast before the bus comes. The kind my momma used to do. She called it pain perdu.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Some months earlier, I had begun a halting study of the French language. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z So the French homework wasn’t so easy either. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z She would speak in her gentle way with the pleasant mixture of Norman French and good English words that were becoming the fashion. The Door in the Wall 1949-01-03T00:00:00Z French jams, English marmalades, an unclean butter dish, bottles of ketchup and Lea & Perrins circled past, before what the Object wanted: an economy-size jar of Rolaids. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z In addition to Portuguese, he also knew Greek, French, and even Swahili, which he learned during their hunting trip to Africa. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z Each day I stopped at a sidewalk shoeshine stand near the French Market. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, he’s been working hard at learning French, even studying in bed until ten-fifteen. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z “French. My mom says it’s more polite for cursing.” Adrift 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Fine, Poopsie, fine. I’m failing algebra, American history, and French,” she said, knowing that her father’s thoughts had drifted to other matters. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look,” he asked good-naturedly, “are you more interested in the theater or your French?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z She was a French mouse who had arrived at the castle long ago in the luggage of a visiting French diplomat. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z The owner knew me for a Dane, but as I spoke French, I believe his attempt to cheat me failed somewhat. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z “Some man came by to see Lice last night,” she said, “just before he ran off. A big bald-headed guy with a weird foreign accent—French or Russian or something.” Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Abigail described the decision to resume negotiations with France as “a master stroke of policy” because it averted a French war and removed the rationale for Hamilton’s army at one fell swoop. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Despite growing evidence that the “French cure” was effective in keeping patients alive, it still came in for wide criticism. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The house is dark, stuffy, the blinds in the living room closed, the curtains drawn across the French doors leading to the garden. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z Mass paranoia so gripped the ghettos, reminding me of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, that I could not even trust my own mother. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Still, though, even when they were dull I enjoyed the disconcerting combination of French life and English narration. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They were all French and Belgians, and paid close attention to their meal, but they were having a good time. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z A neat French braid begins at Zeta-4’s left ear and curves around the back, to where it twists into a pretzel bun on the opposite side, a lot like the Chancellor’s. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z “From 10 to 12 and 2 to 4 six days in the week, I shall confine myself to my old medical works and other college studies including stenography, French and German.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We’re in the coffee shop area of the store, with mellow French music playing. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The book has a plain ivory cover, a title written in French. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Turtle squinted into the blackness that lay within the open French doors. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z For the commanding officer, Washington picked Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Knowlton, a veteran of the French and Indian War and a hero of Bunker Hill. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Some minutes, or hours later, I made, in French, the following brief entry in my diary: “I am giving Sister Irma her freedom to follow her own destiny. Everybody is a nun.” Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z In conspiratorial whispers, with shocking details to back up his claim, he assured us that the French had very low standards of personal hygiene. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z The fourth was a living room with the exit, a pair of French windows, on the other side. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z Though we were forbidden to speak anything but French, the teacher would occasionally use us to practice any of her five fluent languages. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The French are the people who slap one another with gloves and wear scarves to cover their engorged hickies. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z There are food carts on every corner, selling everything from ripe mangoes to sugarcane, from Western cakes to French crepes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Celine was a brave French soldier in the First World War—until his skull was cracked. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re only a little half-pint of cider half drunk up, but by Jinks! you’re as strong as a little French horse!” Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z The French, the Belgians, the Dutch, the Portuguese, the Spanish and other white nations have weakened steadily as nonwhite Asians and Africans have recovered their lands. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I am in the eighth grade and am studying French. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z Or when the French waitress at Epcot brought them a dessert meant for another table but told them they could keep it anyway. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z Van Braam did not speak English very well, but he spoke French, and he understood what Washington wanted him to do. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In a wide-open field the French cavalry had assembled in force and dismounted to form a long line. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z A Nazi agent masquerading as a French Resistance courier. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z He spoke Québécois French, which Piper translated effortlessly. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “In these modern days, society cannot get along without French chefs,” he wrote. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z On the deck of the Jean Bart, the three new French citizens looked back at the burning city, ablaze from end to end. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Julia looked down at the French pot holder in her hand. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z On the other hand, it is unlikely that he speaks French well. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z They ask a total of one question: about three Free French flags rolled up in a second-floor closet. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z In the shadow of the French Revolution, the mystical was driven out of calculus. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I dunk my French toast sticks in the little tub of syrup. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Both music and the colourful ritual of ballet thrived at the French court under Lully and Louis XIV who built upon the musical patronage of his predecessors. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Editorials in Federalist newspapers accused him of passing information to the French government through pro-French agents in America and meeting routinely with Benjamin Franklin Bache, editor of the Aurora, the chief vehicle for the opposition. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But the way the French see it, the Germans destroyed civilization here in Europe and no punishment is too bad for them. The Remains of the Day 1989-05-01T00:00:00Z Emerging from behind the garbage can, he found her beautiful, his French blood flared up, and he proceeded to gallantries unmistakable even to the slack eyes of mademoiselle’s mistress. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z She says she bought it even though no one was actually wearing them there because it made her feel French. A Good Kind of Trouble 2019-03-12T00:00:00Z She says in the only French she knows, “Je t’aime ma petite. I love you my little one,” and then she goes back to her stocks. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The man named Hugh recalled hearing that she was working as a serving maid for a household in Petty France, that colony of French emigres just outside the walls of the city. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z The French reacted “as if it had been a victory of their own troops over their own enemies,” the commissioners reported. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z This dreadful man shouted at us in French. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The French have decided to ignore our self-proclaimed superiority, and this is translated as arrogance. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z ‘Body language’ is a form of communication, like speaking English or French or Chinese, but it has no words, only gestures. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I only finish a small plate of curly French fries. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Charley moved about smiling and sniffing ecstatically like an American woman in a French perfume shop. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Our food arrives, but Rhiannon just stabs the ketchup with her French fries. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z The sister said, “I seem to remember that you speak a bit of French.” Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z The strange, passionate marriage of Russian and French modernism that was born at those Trocadero concerts was to turn into something big, noisy and rebellious. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z Apart from anything else, nearly half the completed work now consisted of quotations from French sources, still in the original French. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z They ordered two steaks medium rare, baked potatoes, French fries, fried onions, succotash, side dishes of macaroni and hominy, salad with Thousand Island dressing, cinnamon rolls, apple pie and ice cream, and coffee. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave the taxi driver French’s address with instructions to take her there, but to return her to the bus station if her husband couldn’t be found. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The trouble was that lazy daisies needed French knots for their centers and I hated making French knots. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z After my irregular French verbs, I joined them and read Beyond. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The rest of the class laughs, and even Mrs. French shakes her head. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z Thus Descartes opted for the least common phrase available to him in French as a translation for lex naturae in order to give his phrase a precise reference to scientific laws, not moral ones. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z For example, in the French and Indian War Ulster Scots fought with the British against the French and their “Indian” allies. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z This imaginative but impractical form of early notation, attributed to a ninth-century French monk called Hucbald, had the words rise and fall according to the shape of the tune. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z After long hours of code breaking, he went back to his room in a private French home, among streets so dark that he sometimes needed the light from his cigarette to find his way. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z “I’m an American. My folks have some French blood, why I have a nose like this. I’m an American, all right.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z One of the views, from a faraway perspective, shows spring in Paris: full of light and color, a palette bright with green grass, blue sky, the French flag flying atop the mill. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z She said nothing, just ran through a set of French doors onto a small patio to see the picture in the setting sunlight. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I got some potatoes, leeks, cream, and a loaf of fresh French bread that been teasin’ my nose all day, charge them to Lizabeth, and head for home. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z My eyes returned to French sentences I found I couldn’t translate. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z That French toast was like an apology for not taking the kids to the park. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z Jefferson went on to acknowledge that Adams’s critical perspective on the French Revolution had been a major source of his unpopularity. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z The room was small and simple, except that it was on the top floor, and had French doors which opened onto a terrace as large as the room. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not good enough, Robert. You’ve got to try harder,” Mr. French said again and again. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Before leaving New York, I enrolled in a monthlong French class taught by a beautiful young Parisian woman who had us memorize a series of dialogues from an audiocassette that accompanied our textbook. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Supplying arms to America meant that Redcoats would be shot by French bullets from French guns—but French soldiers would not have to pull the trigger. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z French came easily to me in school, and I became fluent. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z There had been French doors on the Cape Ann love nest of his honeymoon, still were, always would be. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z His stomach roiled, and he put his forkful of French toast back on his plate. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z As Adams explained it, the French philosophes had invented the word, which became a central part of their utopian style of thinking and a major tenet in their school of folly.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He envisioned French horn players on the Wooded Island, their music drifting across the waters. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The young dad called out from the French windows. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z He was drawing on it now, in a French barn, in the small hours. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Only one artist is wearing what I consider a French painter's uniform—black beret, a white blouse with billowing sleeves, and a black scarf. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “It is an honor. Your performance of Lady Anne was breathtaking. The name’s Louis Napoleon. No relation to the diminutive temperamental French emperor, I’m afraid.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The French girl closed her eyes and rested, taking advantage of the shift in attention away from her. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z A particularly poignant loss occurred in the summer of 1701, when the leaders of forty native nations convened in Montreal to negotiate an end to decades of war among themselves and the French. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z A bluish haze hung over the narrow streets of the French Quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Two men below her window were talking French. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z “We will be fine,” he says in French. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z As the fire approaches, the doors of the French consulate open. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z He sees beautiful paintings at the Louvre, at the Musee du Luxembourg, and at the Salon, the French Academy’s annual exhibition of “living masters” of the current art world. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The lovers’ apartment had one romantic wall which was all French doors. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z I told him, “That’s nothing—in French I’m a mine sweeper. Which personality annoys you the most?” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The story of a prince who could not be killed, a priest who warned of a goddess’s wrath, a French prelate who believed he’d bought the same stone centuries later. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Without warning, French slapped Ann hard across the face, knocking her into the wall. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Also, I know how to make French toast and pancakes without catching anything on fire or burning myself or melting the spatula. Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z And how everyone in the city could speak French, Italian, Greek, Turkish, English, and Dutch? Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Evidently she got away with it for she passed the examination in French. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Though that was some time ago. And you are correct, this place is very French, I think that’s part of the charm. So many places here don’t bother to be charming.” The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z A helpful way of beginning is to look up the word théorie in a series of French dictionaries. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z A wealth of combed and clipped mustache gave him the appearance and attitude of a French rake of the nineteenth century, and incidentally concealed his crooked front teeth. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Patterson sat on his porch, cleaning his French horn with a white cloth. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “Hand flat, Robert,” Mr. French said as he approached me. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Jefferson’s enthusiasm for the French Revolution, despite its wild and bloody excesses, pushed Adams over the edge. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In 1824 the Marquis de Lafayette, the great French champion of American independence, paid a final visit to America. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z In the fifteenth century, Angkor Wat was abandoned to the jungles after an invasion by Siam and forgotten about until French explorers rediscovered it in the nineteenth century. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The puzzle was cleared up when a group of older church women took their deacon aside and delicately explained matters to him—naming French as the father. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He bought spare ribs, buttered corn, French fries, and a Pepsi-Cola. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “We do do French at school…” Madame Crommelynck made me go on. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z An edge of his French cuffs showed beneath his jacket sleeves. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “French Papists, for that matter. Didn’t speak a word of English. Least that’s what they claimed. Try talking to him in French,” he said, indicating the boy. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z If the elevated tone indicates to you that it was carried on in French, you are wrong. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z When Phillip complained about the French couple building a house next to his in Cornwall, Emenike asked, “Are they between you and the sunset?” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They don’t snack—you’ll almost never see a French person eating while driving or walking down the street. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They came over to Africa for the fight and then crossed the river and toured around in French Congo, since the roads and everything are so much nicer in general over here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z In i960, French researchers had discovered that when cells were infected with certain viruses in culture, they clumped together and sometimes fused. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z On October 21 Dinwiddie received the king’s answer: Order the French to leave British territory. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Suppose we were a bit high—keyed up with the Benzedrine, rattling through the French countryside in the moonlight, people we love and work with disappearing around us like burnt-out sparklers. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z "But Mr. Barnes introduced you as Mademoiselle Georgette Leblanc. Surely he did," insisted Mrs. Braddocks, who in the excitement of talking French was liable to have no idea what she was saying. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z The word bo was short for bonjour, started by some chaps learning French in secondary school and wanting to show off. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z Odile’s French mother had imparted to her a thorough contempt for the unimaginative way in which most Englishmen eat and house themselves. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z “If I knew French, I wouldn’t be taking French to begin with.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z Spying on the French, Washington has his men quietly count canoes. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, at 1:22 p.m., a woman come set next to him by the name a Joline French. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z In the case of Peugeot SA the crucial story was the French legal code, as written by the French parliament. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z We finally reach the French port, and once all the smaller groups of refugees converge, we're four thousand strong. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “That’s a good question. I guess he’d keep trying in French and Kikongo, but he gets those mixed up pretty bad. People probably never would get it straight what he was doing here exactly.” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z I hadn’t been to French in nearly three weeks and the thought of it gave me a twinge of anxiety. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z It all started on January 17, 1912, when Alexis Carrel, a French surgeon at the Rockefeller Institute, grew his “immortal chicken heart.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Invariably accompanied by a gorgeous French secretary- interpreter who may or may not have consorted with Russian royalty. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The boys were not allowed off the ship, but they spent much of the day at the railings on deck, watching French longshoremen load and unload cargo. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Wolfe’s name sounds like something you’d call a dog, but he conquered the French. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "Their father and I desire them to face the highest of challenges. And Sonia wants to continue with advanced French. She's excellent with languages." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Naturally, the French republic had turned to the United States for help, only to have President Washington hesitate. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z At a nearby Indian village, Washington met with Half King, a powerful Seneca chief who hated the French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then he would show the visitors how we could type, send the Morse code, multiply numbers, and speak some French, German, and Italian. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z In French, physicien had never been a term used for doctors, so the word was conveniently available to mean a natural scientist, and then to evolve to become the French equivalent for ‘physicist’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z So, in French, I asked him if he could tell me where a great ape release site was nearby. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z Twenty-three years earlier, King Louis XIV had issued a set of rules that defined slavery as legal in the French sugar islands. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When we read Candide it opened up a new way of looking at the world to Chet, and he continued hungrily reading Voltaire, in French, while the class went on to other people. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Nguyen grew up watching French colonists abusing workers at plantations and mines, ripping out and exporting the country’s natural resources. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Grandmère had a thick French accent that was hard to understand sometimes. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Of course, when she found the place at 9 Weichang Lu, in the old French Concession, it was something completely different. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z Wolfe’s name sounds like something you’d call a dog, but he conquered the French. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Gerald remembers a bar of French chocolate he bought on his way home, and this is unwrapped, broken apart, and passed around the table. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Maybe she’s down in the basement,” he says, heading to a door opposite the French doors we entered through. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z Mine is just the French practice instrument Papa himself learned to play on as a child. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “In Touch says I’m...dating a French model?” Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z You have extra French horn players, but they can't read bass clef C parts. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Devised by French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon, the system required police to make a precise survey of the dimensions and physical peculiarities of suspects. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He was a French missionary who traveled to Canada. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z The Soviets shipped weapons to Ho Chi Minh; the Americans supplied weapons to the French. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z He didn’t say anything, probably because he didn’t hear me, so I said, “I said I kicked a French chicken in the stomach once.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z At Reynaud’s Bakery he bought a loaf of French bread, still warm and giving off its wonderful smell of fermented dough. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z From there, the leaflets may get into the hands of the French resistance. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I've never considered myself an across-the-board apologist for the French, but there's a lot to be said for an entire population that never, under any circumstances, talks during the picture. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “A girl,” Werner says in French, “did you see—?” but the interpreter only smirks and says something to the clerk in English, as though every German soldier he has interviewed has asked about a girl. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z There’s a new article titled “How I Got over My Fear of French.” A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z This is puzzling, because I’ve seen French people, there are lots of them up north, so he couldn’t have conquered all of them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “You!” he barks, his accent more Flemish than French. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z At the next table, a group of sunburnt French Canadians were enjoying baked lobsters and getting drunk on Cuba libres. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z The nation needed an opportunity to top the French, in particular to “out-Eiffel Eiffel.” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She left behind an autobiography, which Michel Foucault discovered in the archives of the French Department of Public Hygiene. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You tricked me! The French, the magic ... you are a touril” he said. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z It had been a weird morning: three kids were called down to the main office during social studies, and then in French they’d had the second intruder drill. Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z We spoke French in class, but it sounded different from the French I was used to—again, slower. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z We did not speak: she did not know German and I did not understand French. Night 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z It would resume, the conductor said in English, French, and German, in an hour and a half. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Huddled in the hallways and making the most of our pathetic French, my fellow students and I engaged in the sort of conversation commonly overheard in refugee camps. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The taxi driver sees and honks his horn and yells at me in French through his open window. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He’s already opening the French doors leading into the backyard. Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The French had morphed over time, so now any white person was called a mundele. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z He and the president celebrated with a bottle of French wine and steaks from the White House kitchen. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z In middle school, he would have to learn another language, like Spanish or French. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z They grinned back, and Smiley kind of joshed my shoulder as they moved toward the dining room, where Aunt Carrie and Miss Sarah, French Gordy’s wife, were slicing cakes and pies. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Late sunlight glides through tall French windows, and the air tastes of silver polish. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z On the other side of the room, Fleur was jabbering away in French to her mother. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z I held out the small statue that had been owned by my family ever since it was given to my great-great-great-grandmother Defile by a French man who had kept her as a slave. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Her parents are out of town at one of their French country homes, and she said she thought her living room would be the perfect setting for the scene we were doing. From Twinkle, with Love 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z The hotel’s fourth floor, where garden rooms with French balconies open directly onto the ramparts, has become home to an aging high-velocity anti-air gun called an 88 that can fire twenty-one-and-a-half-pound shells nine miles. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z “Why don’t you just call me French? Only people I respect can call me Francis.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z I don’t even ask her what that means because she’ll get on me again about not continuing with my French. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z When Clinton learned that French troops had begun arriving in America, he realized he must return to New York. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The silence between us swells and fills the room; a fly buzzes angrily against the French doors. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The pass code they decide on for their ATM card, Lulu, is the name of the French restaurant where they had their first meal together. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Because of his family history and European childhood, Houseman learned four languages by the time he was five years old—French, English, German, and Romanian. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z Find out how the French are turning Indian tribes against the colonists. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d had a running fight with a French privateer and had lost three men. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She also had a little business baking cookies for restaurants in the French Quarter, the fancy neighborhood across the canal. I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005 2011-04-01T00:00:00Z They read the French newspaper together, Safer says. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The French coast was bombarded with 5,500 tons of bombs during the night, and then, at six in the morning, the first landing craft came ashore. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z And they are sending their children to $400-an-hour math tutors, summer camps at French chateaus, and crash courses on managing money. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z A French artist visiting the island of Martinique around the same time as Clark showed a row of African women and men preparing the ground. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z It was midafternoon, streets not too busy, and Engel clicked into English almost right away—popping back into French only when we passed anybody. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z The food at Pop’s would offer no improvement over hall, but the French girls who came to Cambridge to improve their English were another matter. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z There’s a triangular sign above the door with an illustrated logo of a cannon blasting a cheeseburger toward the café’s name, with French fries exploding wayward like fireworks. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z She was wearing her pajamas and robe, her hair falling down from what was once a neatly twisted French roll. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z A few years before, Ann had taken to slipping out of the house with a wild group that included French—wild by the standards of rural North Carolina in the 1950s, anyway. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z When the new Jack’s fast-food restaurant opened near our home, we begged to go there to buy French fries. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z BBC broadcast in German, Dutch, French and other languages at ten: The invasion has begun! The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z There was a sign on the other side, a big piece of plywood with the letters S-I-D-A scrawled across in red paint, French for AIDS. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “Always. The smell of those French fries is killing me.” Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z The woman was dressed in a servant uniform and had tightly clenched fists, mahogany skin, and a French accent. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He sat at the head of the table, drinking red wine and talking drily of French presidents whom he had met, of the French universities that had offered him jobs. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Having given it some thought, I then declared my love for IBM typewriters, the French word for bruise, and my electric floor waxer. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z They do not trust that he’s an orphan, that he’s often alone, that his accent carries a whisper of the French he learned as a child. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Someone brought them French fries and soda, and the girls dug in. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z In other words, the French culture of food allows the French to enjoy their food and be healthy at the same time. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The French emperor’s grand plan failed, but he was resourceful. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z The French Revolution was spearheaded by affluent lawyers, not by famished peasants. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z So there was no more unavoidable delay in the bathroom, and it wasn’t long before we were all speaking at least a pidgin variety of French and German. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z The big house on the corner was sadder and older than I had remembered, and looked absurd, with its architectural eccentricities, its pretensions to French style, its facade covered with diseased ivy. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Her hair had come down from its French knot and stuck all over her face, and her good blouse was smeared with black ash. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z No one in the French Quarter, it seemed, was interested in hot dogs. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Foreign bootlegging of minerals is so thorough that our neighbor the French Congo, without a single diamond mine in its borders, is the world’s fifth-largest exporter of diamonds. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Finn could smell the French toast as soon as he woke up. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z I wanted to lie in a French crib and start from scratch, learning the language from the ground floor up. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z There was another group shot, of himself and the thirty French kids he had taught in a boarding school near Lille. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z “Suffrage” comes from the Latin word suffragium, meaning “approval” and “the right to vote”; “franchise” comes from the French word franche, meaning “free.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z The only two ailments the French will admit to are that and a bad liver. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “The bone marrow test,” Miss French said, “shows that Mr. Polokov was a humanoid robot. Do you want a detailed—” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They order French fries and milk shakes, banana splits and grilled burgers and sandwiches. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The people ran up and down the streets speaking French to each other. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Hidden by night, members of Congress, following separate routes, make their way in the dark to Carpenter’s Hall for secret meetings with a French intelligence agent. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z He was on liaison duties in the French sector and initiated a last-minute evacuation of a small town west of Verdun before it was shelled. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He likes his classes in French, German, English, and math. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “What about the French privateers in the Mediterranean?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom went to school to see Mr. French, who was in charge of organizing the teams for our school. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z At night in his lonely French billet, William lighted his oil lamp and gazed at her photographs. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The streets of Los Angeles were full of uniformed men and women—not just American, but also British, Canadian, and French. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z “I knew you were different. Your French. Your hair. Your skin. You will give me some of this magic.” Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z “You know how old-fashioned my father-in-law is, Pernilla. He prohibits French, no matter how much I implore him. You are so fortunate to have an understanding husband. Do your sons study French as well?” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z At the head of the table were two good-looking French girls, with much Rue du Faubourg Montmartre chic. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z He was born in Bercy on the outskirts of Paris and trained in France, and while he knows a little poodle-English, he responds quickly only to commands in French. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Islam’s march into Europe ended in 732, when the French defeated the Muslim armies at the battle of Poitiers. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Mr. French called me and two other kids to the front of the class. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z French slaves to the north of us, Spanish slaves to the south of us. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Every weekend, Mack and Helen took me in their convertible to a fast-food restaurant, where they ordered me French fries and a strawberry shake. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z The large television system and all those French love songs and rara records, with the talking drums and conch shell sounds in them. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z The third painting is a pile of books—French novels—on a table. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Clinton planned to strike the French before Washington even knew about the landing. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z This morning Francis saw that I did not have my usual interest in the French moneyed gentry. Double Helix 1968-02-27T00:00:00Z With Duke Valentino as his instrument and the French invasion as his opportunity, he achieved all those things that I discussed earlier in describing the actions of the Duke. The Prince 2008-06-01T00:00:00Z French disappeared a month later, taking all their money with him. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I couldn’t bear to have yet another French speaker guffawing at my name, so when the man on the phone asked, “Can I ’ave your name?” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Released from jail, French immediately reverted to his old ways. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z There had been a time when many people knew of his shop: Arab merchants, French and English geologists, German soldiers who were always well-heeled. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The ‘magnificences’ she oversaw at the French court had many components, from jousting tournaments and firework displays to water fetes and mock battles. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z The two men were having dinner at a French restaurant in Georgetown, a neighborhood just down the hill from the sprawling Soviet embassy complex. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Thousands of French prisoners of war are shipped to Germany for forced labor in the German countryside, and Hitler sends the Luftwaffe to bomb Britain. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z French had never looked finer to her, even though she knew from her family’s faces that he appeared silly to them. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z She hid her book bag behind a tapestry screen in the rooms of French furniture. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t go then, because by the time I returned from French Lick, I was tapped out and that was it, and there was no more traveling anywhere for a long while. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z But France wanted to hurt England as payback for the loss of Canada in the French and Indian War. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z King George II, ignoring French claims to the Ohio River valley, had given permission for colonizing the area to the Ohio Company, a group of Virginia landowners and London merchants. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z "Oh, I can read a bit of French, I guess, and I've always wanted to learn German." The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z After graduating from college, he moved to France knowing only the phrase "Do you speak French?"—a question guaranteed to get you nowhere unless you also speak the language. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z In 1585 Bruno’s host, the French ambassador, was withdrawn from England, and Bruno had no choice but to leave with him. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Haiti was lost to the French, and Napoleon’s ambitions for an empire in the New World withered away. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Emma is done with French now and is unpacking her violin. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Waiting in a booth at the restaurant, Yvonne, Vega and me ordered some sodas and French fries to pass the time until Ma came. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z He would put on a bad French accent and mimic Boubacar. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z British intelligence, with its thorough knowledge of the French landing, was ahead of the Culpers. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z From my crawling days, Grandfather had taught me all the tricks of the American and the British armies, and quite a few from the French. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He had run away from home at the age of 14 to fight in the French and Indian War. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In the case of the French curés, the crucial story was that of Christ’s life and death as told by the Catholic Church. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He is the subject of schoolwide speculation, and slight scandal, having once been married to Ms. Sagan, who teaches French. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “All right; English pronunciation is crazy. But all I want of French is to be able to read it. Can you help me with that—and not bother about the pronunciation?” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “French, German, Spanish, Italian, and enough Swedish to get along.” Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z The plan was based on the belief that Admiral François de Grasse’s powerful French fleet, with 3,000 troops, was heading from France to New York to aid in the attack. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And in a low voice she read something, of which not one word was intelligible to me; for it was in an unknown tongue—neither French nor Latin. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z Was it here his father had come—his father, the French doctor? Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z We were sitting in the attic yesterday afternoon working on our French when suddenly I heard the splatter of water behind me. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Until the emergence of Napoleon as dictator, the French government, eventually called the Directory, was a misnamed coalition of ever-shifting political factions inherently incapable of either coherence or direction. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z Fadi looked at his budgeted options—cheeseburger minis with French fries or something called a “bean and cheese burrito.” Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Why didn’t the French make their measurements in France and save themselves all the bother and discomfort of their Andean adventure? A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z The Frenchmen gave courteous thanks, complimented Turner on his French, then bent over the table to pack the empty bottles and glasses into the canvas bag. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He acknowledged that the random violence and careening course of the French Revolution were lamentable developments, but he insisted they were merely a passing chapter in the larger story of triumphant global revolution. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z He just raises an eyebrow at my reaction, then replies in French. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “I am never too busy for an heir to the French throne if that is in fact what you are,” he said pleasantly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z I think it was because of the French Revolution—I mean, because of everything I’d been taught or shown about it. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z Only 2 percent of the workers in the U.S.-led project were hospitalized at any one time, compared with 30 percent for the French. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z French would be happy to see his daughter, Ann thought, noting with satisfaction how cute the child looked in her green-and-white dress. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if coyotes with glowing yellow eyes liked pastelles as much as they liked French fries. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “What did she say?” asked Mom, who didn’t know French. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z I taught them to say “Drink up now! Closing time!” in English, French, and Afrikaans, though I have to admit they’ve picked up a few depictable phrases from my guests, over the years. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z She said it again and switched to French, which was harder for me to understand but easier for her to swear in. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z This is puzzling, because I’ve seen French people, there are lots of them up north, so he couldn’t have conquered all of them. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “It was about a funeral for a great French chef.” Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Turner was thinking of a quiet room and a square table covered with a green gingham cloth, with one of those French ceramic oil lamps suspended from the ceiling on a pulley. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Then the army boys will come a-marching down the road saying a song in French. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t mix this up with another word from French, cache, which sounds like "cash" and means something like “stash.” Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I would practice at home, putting on nightly news broadcasts for my family, speaking in French. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z Maybe I can’t do algebra or say ‘Nice poodle’ in French or tell you who discovered Brazil, but I can make a fire with two dry sticks and a rock. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z As we watch the Barang float on his back in the water, Keav chides Chou for giving me the wrong information. means he’s French. but they can be from many other countries, including America. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z They eat hummus and pita and titter in French. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z The discussion of experience/experiment claims that the English vocabulary fosters empiricism, while the French vocabulary is at odds with it; this would also seem to be true in this case. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z John Adams recalled that Washington's house in Philadelphia was “surrounded by an innumerable multitude, from day to day buzzing, demanding war against England, cursing Washington, and crying success to the French patriots and virtuous Republicans.” Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z But my photographs are being taken by an official Gestapo-employed French photographer! Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z French people enjoy going out and watching their movies on a big screen. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z His countenance expressed sympathy and compassion; he drew a chair close to mine and addressed me in French, Frankenstein 1818-01-01T00:00:00Z Nat said, “I don’t see how you get that out of it. French pronunciation must be crazy.” Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Using all the French I could muster, I tried to tell the waitress the meal was magnificent. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z This law was discovered in 1787 by Jacques-Alexandre Charles, a French physicist already famous for being the first to fly aboard a hydrogen balloon. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea 2000-02-07T00:00:00Z I knew what she was saying even with my rubbish school' girl French. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z Plus, there was someone he could rely on when his hand-gesturing and broken French stalled the conversation. Death on the River of Doubt 2017-01-03T00:00:00Z The dressing table’s still decorated with her antique atomizers, French perfume bottles, bowls shaped like shells filled with eye shadows, lipsticks, pencils. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z When I was blind I came here and learned cane-walking in the French Quarter. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, it’s so hot when you say French words,” Jule told him, reaching over to his plate and taking a chip. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Josh said, while stuffing a French fry in his mouth. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z “I dare say the French feel that about France,” said Maxim. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z We hid behind the French panels in the living room and waited. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z We head next door to the Asian grocery store for a bag of shrimp chips to share—delicious, crispy, salty, French fry-looking crackers that make my mouth pucker. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z “Europe,” said Madame Szegeczowska, in her soft French, “is essentially an economic appendage of the Northern Region. We know it, and it doesn’t matter.” I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z You know how in languages like Spanish and French, you can pick out a word here or there because it sounds kind of like English? Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z “Well, a long time ago, there was a French explorer named Cadillac, and he was the one who discovered Detroit. And that seal was his family seal, from France.” Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z It was the French problem that was most on his mind these days. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The letter was written in English, even though I had written in French. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z These have their roots in the mid-eighteenth century, when the French government, which had claimed Haiti as its own, made Port-au-Prince, the capital, a major hub of slave trading. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Tell you what, you could make French toast every day between now and then, to make it up to us.” The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z “It will make him very happy, I’m sure, and I’d love to hear you speak French.” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Yes, I could hear, but I couldn’t say the words in French any more than I could say them in English. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z He sits with Maxine on the fainting couch, leafing through a coffee table book she’d helped to edit on eighteenth-century French wallpapers, one side of the book resting on each of their knees. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Some part of me was still back in that seventh-grade French class, thinking only of the immediate security of my body, regarding France as one might regard Jupiter. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Don’t tell her but I’ve sampled some of that French wine. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I also translate prayers into French for the nuns who do not read Latin. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z His r’s, instead of purring in the back of his throat in the French manner, rolled off his tongue in the Italian. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z One of the Haganah operatives managed to get several crates of oranges at the French port. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Yet the English, French, and Dutch who took over the hemisphere north of Florida were just as fascinated by native cultures as the Spaniards and Portuguese who emerged victorious to the south. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He could not decide for certain whether the voice was German, French, or Spanish. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Nearly a year later, French soldiers and their Indian allies ambushed a large British unit led by General Edward Braddock north of Great Meadows. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When the Haitians defeated the French armies, Napoleon lost control of the world’s most productive sugar islands and with it his dream of great sugar profits. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z French has also acquired the word expérimentation, which is now sometimes used as if it were equivalent to ‘experiment’. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z I push him to the floor, grab the keys from the kitchen table and am out of the French doors before he’s able to get to his knees. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z The French writer Emile Zola, for example, thought that the Industrial Age had brought to working people untold misery and cruelty. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z I’m perfectly willing to tutor him in exchange for his assistance with French and other subjects. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The French ambassador to Cuba also showed up. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z If the police came, Hugh would explain the situation in his perfect French while I'd toss in a few of my most polished phrases. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But Descartes and his authorized translator from Latin into French never write of la loy de nature. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The radio crackles and squawks, interrupted now and then by a soothing French voice, then a wisp of violin and a quiet French horn. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z I have never been one of those Americans who pepper their conversation with French phrases and entertain guests with wheels of brie. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z “I could not believe that the United States could fail in the end to solve the problems that the French had not solved.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Although his grandfather had been French, he was raised and considered himself Ojibwa and kept the rules of his mother’s dodem or clan, the catfish clan. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z She just said, “Children, we don’t have money to spend on French fries! I can buy a week’s worth of groceries for what we’d pay for those fries!” While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Impressed by what they saw, the earls introduced cannons to the English army, which adopted them enthusiastically and already used them against French soldiers at the battle of Crecy six years later. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z By the time she got back to the French Quarter, it was getting dark. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Daddy and I made the beds, and afterward I learned five irregular French verbs. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z Upon his return there was now enough information for the French astronomer Joseph Lalande to calculate that the mean distance from the Earth to the Sun was a little over 150 million kilometers. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z I was the guest at the home of the late black American author Richard Wright’s daughter, beautiful, slender, soft-voiced Julia, whose young French husband publishes a Ghanaian paper. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z We usually have this, or for a special treat, French bread with iced coffee. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z She realized that there was a commercial arrangement between the French count and her father in which she had no say. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z So to remember how to say dog in French, she pictures being on a street in France and remembers that the French dog is light blue. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z Morris sent two canvas bags containing “410 Spanish dollars, two English crowns, 10 shillings sixpence, and a French half crown.” George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z American and French soldiers travel to Yorktown, where French warships close the trap on British troops. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z By fall of 1791, the French passed a law making free blacks and people of mixed background on the sugar islands legally equal to all other Frenchmen. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z To help their own chances, Lefty put away his French phrase book and began memorizing four lines of the King James New Testament. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z The clerk accepts the money Albert exchanged for her, and Max leans against her hip, half-asleep, and she is so afraid to try her French that she goes to bed hungry. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z At Harvard, a fellow student marveled, “he intellectually looted the place,” drinking deeply of physics and chemistry, of course, but also mathematics, philosophy, and French literature. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z If you had to select the least convivial scientific field trip of all time, you could certainly do worse than the French Royal Academy of Sciences’ Peruvian expedition of 1735. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z He described it several times in print, in Latin and in French, but never in English. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Now Scout’s outside of his French class, talking to Piper. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Senghor sensed my uneasiness, for he said, “Mandela, do not worry, the French here identify themselves completely with our African aspirations.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Those with the most “currency” can cross from the food section to the book section, where old Khmer, Chinese, French, or English dictionaries and novels can be bought with several kilograms of rice. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Madame O’Malley had a moment of silence at the beginning of French class, a class that was always punctuated with long moments of silence, and then asked us how we were feeling. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “The British and the French have already declared war on him,” my father said. Prisoner B-3087 2013-03-01T00:00:00Z Virgil would have preferred French vanilla, but he didn’t want to press his luck. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z Rishi had pretty much inhaled his French onion soup while she read. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z He also gave us “fiancé” and “fiancée,” two fancy French words for the folks who are going to be married. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z In Darwin’s time, the most commonly accepted mechanism of heredity was a theory advanced by the eighteenth-century French biologist Jean-Baptiste Lamarck. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z One of them played the piano--strictly lousy--and the other one sang, and most of the songs were either pretty dirty or in French. The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z The taxi driver, while taking me to the Hotel Aletti, described the atrocities the French had committed, and personal measures that he had taken to get even. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Anatole speaks French and English both, and single-handedly runs the school all by himself. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Then Franklin wondered if Bonvouloir might be a French agent, sent to America to get intelligence on the colonists’ struggle against England. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And during that time, Gerry, always the maverick, had opted to remain in Paris to confer unofficially with French diplomats about averting the looming war. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z I sketch them in their rows, like the years of her childhood, Acre and French Fry and Lulu and Susan and Up and all the rest, organized alphabetically. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I cried out in French this time, trying to draw his attention to me. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Officially, four occupying powers divided the city into Soviet, American, British, and French sectors. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z That struggle, known in America as the French and Indian War, began in 1754, after Washington ambushed a small French force. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Now she is a candidate for a Ph.D. in French literature at NYU. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I didn’t understand it because the language was almost as hard to understand as French, which is my worst subject at school. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z “The French school is not bad, but I prefer Sidcot Hall. They teach the complete British curriculum,” said another woman, whose name Obinze had forgotten. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “Tomorrow morning we could get a boat. Go out to French’s Island,” he said in a calm voice, as though it were as simple as going to lunch. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Many, including the French, offered various ambiguous versions somewhere between the two. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Feh! So drab! Nothing clashes, but nothing matches, either. TantpisT This was a French expression Penelope understood to mean “too bad, tough luck, that’s the way the croissant crumbles,” or something along those lines. The Incorrigible Children of Ashton Place: Book I: The Mysterious Howling 2011-01-25T00:00:00Z But the hand of the professional decorator had exorcised whatever ghosts of the French bourgeoisie might still haunt the thick brick walls of the building. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z But, reader, there is no comfort in the word “farewell,” even if you say it in French. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z He pronounced Desjardins the English way, the s's intact, and in spite of her training in French this is how she still thinks of it. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z His pronunciation of the French phrase is decent, I notice. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I see her hair is still in a French braid from the party. A Mango-Shaped Space 2003-04-16T00:00:00Z And Lord Furnival protected us from the Scots, the French, the Danes, and the wicked infidels. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z I wish Father would appear in my class speaking beautiful English as he does French and Chinese and hold out his hand for mine. Inside Out and Back Again 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z I think: All the best fencers are French. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z “Monsieur Tabard teaches at the French Film Academy,” she said, “and Etienne is one of his students. They are fans of yours.” The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z I peel the potatoes and set ’em to boil, rub a wood bowl with garlic, mix up a salad, and slice my French bread. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “I used it for cooking French toast. It was scrumptious!” A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z They wandered back to the rooms of fine French and English furniture. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Both Franklin and the French officials knew that many of the American soldiers who won the battle had fired French bullets from French guns. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z This is where the French queen waited for death, praying quietly, grieving the loss of home, husband, children. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “We are going to do a project on the French Revolution,” she said. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z “Visitors are not allowed at the dance! You shall be eee-jectedl” He had an accent—French, maybe. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z Here, he uses ‘proof’ as if he were writing preuve in French, where we would use ‘evidence’ in the sense of Evidence-Indices. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z He knew how to prepare a few French dishes, perfectly seasoned and magnificently presented, which were his contribution whenever there were guests for dinner. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Some were in the concentration camps, others were hidden and protected by non-Jewish families—like what those French nuns did for Link’s grandma. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z This new motor-car was an enormous long black French automobile called a De Dion-Bouton which had a canvas roof that folded back. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z Washington gathered vital intelligence about the way the French were turning some tribes against the English and punishing Indians who would not aid the French. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z And so did the French legal system back in 1896, when Armand Peugeot, who had inherited from his parents a metalworking shop that produced springs, saws and bicycles, decided to go into the automobile business. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Well! Is that the kind of leniency you show your boys on their math and French in school? They must never learn anything!” The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z He served secretly as a Patriot agent in France, in the midst of French and British spies. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z The French and the American revolutions both saw more or less tyrannical polities overtaken—at least on paper—by forms of representative democracy. Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z Mrs. Friedman had assigned us a term paper on the French Revolution. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z The French language had also made an impression. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Madame,” Princesse said, calling upon her phonetics lessons in order to sound less native and more French. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z “I’m so glad my French print is clean, it’s just the thing and so becoming!” observed Meg complacently. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I started college at nearby UC Berkeley, where my life was a mixture of antiwar rallies and marches and beginning French and rhetoric classes. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z I ate twelve French toasts, two omelets, and I was fixing to eat yours.. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z The curtains are open downstairs but the French doors are closed, sunlight reflecting off the glass. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z On the road again, they saw burned-out tanks and armored cars, German as well as British and French. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z He urged Chicago hostesses to hire some French chefs to improve their culinary diction. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Sometimes, French, you gotta trust that people are making decisions for the better of the community based on things they know that you don’t.” The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z Among the British troops the view was that the French had let them down. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z Besides these they have brought up a number of those little French beasts with instantaneous fuses. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z I was the reason she cut classes and failed French, the cause of everything nasty and dangerous. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z Do they sit next to each other in French class? Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z A familiar example is the role of those two diseases in aborting the French effort, and nearly aborting the ultimately successful American effort, to construct the Panama Canal. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z Along the opposite wall were curtained French doors bounded by two large Ionic columns. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z He had brought a bottle of French wine, something he did not know my parents could not appreciate. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The French killed nearly 150,000 Haitians in their attempt to take back control of the island. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z The French girl, now quite miffed, stood aside as I went in to speak to the minister, who promised to fulfill our requests. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The United States took over the project in 1904 and encountered the same disease enemies as the French. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z With Easy French, eating out involves a simple "BRING ME A STEAK." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Petra bought two hot chocolates with whipped cream, and they headed through French doors into what looked like a giant living room. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Spanish and French narratives cannot be taken at face value, and in any case say nothing substantial about disease. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z “You know all about History and English and French and everything else. What good will Trigonometry do you?” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z Just for fun, they tried to speak French to each other. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z "Monsieur! You speak French! Why didn’t you tell me?" Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And he knew that the French would see the meeting with Wentworth as a sign that the British might end the war before France officially became involved. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In a fierce battle during the French and Indian War, four bullets riddle Washington’s uniform—but do not strike his body. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z She taught me the proper rules for reading and speaking, the French language, and how to sew. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z You mean I could walk up the grand stairway at Pizitz department store and order a hot dog, French fries, and a Coke in the mezzanine cafe? While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z |
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