"Soi-disant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... believe it well!" A door had opened in the after partition, two men had entered. Above a lank, well-poised body clothed in the white tunic and trousers of a ship's officer, he recognised the tragicomic mask of the soi-disant Mr. Whitaker Monk. At his shoulder shone the bland, intelligent countenance of Mr. Phinuit, who seemed much at home in the blue serge and white flannels of the ...
— Alias The Lone Wolf • Louis Joseph Vance
... condamne entendre dire: "Eyssette n'est pas srieux! Eyssette n'est pas srieux!" Ah! le vieil imbcile! il fallait voir de quel air sentencieux et convaincu il disait cela, en coloriant sa grammaire espagnole! Depuis j'en ai souvent rencontr dans la vie, de ces hommes soi-disant trs graves, qui passaient leur temps colorier des grammaires espagnoles et trouvaient que les ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... hear that the troop under Baron Spinachi has been surrounded, and utterly routed, by General Count Hogginarmo, and the soi-disant Princess is sent ...
— The Christmas Books • William Makepeace Thackeray
... through a whole dialogue. While wading through the whimsies, the puerilities, and unintelligible jargon of this work, I laid it down often to ask myself, how it could have been that the world should have so long consented to give reputation to such nonsense as this. How the soi-disant Christian world, indeed, should have done it, is a piece of historical curiosity. But how could the Roman good sense do it? And particularly, how could Cicero bestow such eulogies on Plato? Although Cicero did not wield the dense logic of ...
— Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson - Volume I • Thomas Jefferson |
