"On dit" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... by. He laid his hand on the major's sleeve when he came to his side, and said, in a hoarse whisper, "Qu'as tu fait donc, pour l'atterrer ainsi?" The other met the searching gaze without flinching, "Je n'en sais rien; seulement—on dit que je suis marie." If the Algerian had been told on indisputable authority that Paris and its inhabitants had just been swallowed up by an earthquake, he would only have raised his shaggy brows in a faint expression of surprise, exactly as he did now. "Tu es marie?" ...
— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence
... mon arrive au collge, c'est que j'tais le seul avec une blouse. A Lyon, les fils de riches ne portent pas de blouses; il n'y que les [17] enfants de la rue, les gones, comme on dit. Moi, j'en avais une, une petite blouse carreaux que datait de la fabrique; j'avais une blouse, j'avais l'air d'un gone.... Quand j'entrai dans la classe; les levs ricanrent. On disait: "Tiens! il a une blouse!" Le professeur ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet
... on the sides of three ravines, so steep that the saying goes, "De la mansarde au jardin, comme on dit a Morlaix." It is situated on a tidal river, about eight miles from the sea, ascended by small vessels, which give the place a lively appearance. Few towns have so many beautiful timbered houses of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries remaining. ...
— Brittany & Its Byways • Fanny Bury Palliser |
