"Savoir-faire" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... nombre de blesss taient morts. Le vaisseau flottait entour de cadavres. La mer tait grosse et le ciel brumeux. On tint conseil. Quelques apprentis dans l'art magique, qui n'avaient point os parler de leur savoir-faire devant Tamango, offrirent tour tour leurs services. On essaya plusieurs conjurations puissantes. A chaque tentative inutile, le dcouragement augmentait. Enfin on reparla de Tamango, qui n'tait pas encore sorti de son retranchement. Aprs tout, c'tait le plus savant d'entre ...
— Quatre contes de Prosper Mrime • F. C. L. Van Steenderen
... lack of clothing as an attribute of savages that it was little short of startling to see a young lady opposite, naked to the waist but for a scanty and transparent suggestion of upper garment, read the morning newspaper and write a note with the savoir-faire of a Parisienne in her boudoir. She wore a necklace of American five-dollar gold pieces, with a pendant of twenties, the Goddess of Liberty and the date, 1898, on the visible side, and as earrings two older coins of $2.50. Nearly every woman ...
— Tramping Through Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras - Being the Random Notes of an Incurable Vagabond • Harry A. Franck |
