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Abbe in sentence

215 examples of Abbe in a sentence

They had returned to their vehicle; the driver stopped by the boulevard; the abbe led Julien through a series of spacious rooms.
The abbe Pirard, for all his gravity, laughed till the tears ran down his cheeks.
'I leave you at liberty for two days,' the abbe told him as they emerged; 'it is not until then that you can be presented to Madame de La Mole.
'That is the Marquis's hand,' said the abbe, 'he is an active man who provides for everything, and would rather do a thing himself than order it to be done.
It was enriched by this experience that, two days later, at noon, he presented himself before the abbe Pirard, who studied him attentively.
'You are perhaps going to become a fop,' the abbe said to him, with a severe expression.
Julien had the appearance of an extremely young man, in deep mourning; he did, as a matter of fact, look quite well, but the good abbe was himself too provincial to notice that Julien still had that swing of the shoulders which in the provinces betokens at once elegance and importance.
On seeing Julien, the Marquis considered his graces in a light so different from that of the good abbe that he said to him:'Should you have any objection to M. Sorel's taking dancing-lessons?'
The abbe was rooted to the spot.
An hour later, the Marquis entered the room, examined the copies, and was surprised to see that Julien wrote cela with a double _l_, _cella_ 'So all that the abbe has been telling me of his learning is simply a tale!'The Marquis, greatly discouraged, said to him gently:'You are not certain of your spelling?''That is true,' said Julien, without the least thought of the harm he was doing himself; he was moved by the Marquis's kindness, which made him think of M. de Renal's savage tone.
The abbe Pirard had gone off to his living.
'The abbe Pirard maintains that we do wrong to crush the self-respect of the people we admit into our households.
This was a delicate attention to the Marquise: Julien had learned the truth from the abbe Pirard.
One morning when the abbe was working with Julien, in the Marquis's library, on the endless litigation with Frilair:'Sir,' said Julien suddenly, 'is dining every evening with Madame la Marquise one of my duties, or is it a favour that they show me?''It is a signal honour!' replied the abbe, greatly shocked.
The abbe, a regular _parvenu_, was highly sensible of the honour of dining with a great nobleman.
'This fellow was not born on his knees,' she thought, 'like that old abbe.
He went across to the abbe Pirard, to ask him.
'But, in that case, why does the Marquis invite M. Balland?'The stern abbe Pirard was making faces in a corner of the room, as he heard fresh names announced.
The fact was that the stern abbe did not recognise the distinguishing marks of good society.
'Never judge by appearances after this,' thought Julien; 'it is at the moment when the abbe's scruples are reproaching him with some peccadillo that he looks terrible; whereas on the face of that Napier, whom everyone knows to be a spy, one sees a pure and tranquil happiness.'
The abbe Pirard had nevertheless made a great concession to his party; he had engaged a valet, and was quite well dressed.
The abbe Pirard beckoned to Julien; M. de La Mole had just been saying something to him.
The abbe Pirard moved into an adjoining room; Julien followed him.
His principal duty was to take charge of the correspondence relative to the famous lawsuit with the abbe de Frilair.
The abbe Pirard had taken him to a number of Jansenist societies.
He went to seek the advice of the abbe Pirard, who, less courteous than the Marquis, answered him only with a whistle and changed the subject.
This attitude amused the Marquis, who reported it that evening to the abbe Pirard.
'There is something that I must at last confess to you, my dear abbe.
When my lawsuits bore you, or when you no longer suit me I shall ask for a good living for you, like that of our friend the abbe Pirard, and _nothing more_,' the Marquis added, in the driest of tones.
In speaking of a flower, Julien quoted a line or two from Virgil's _Georgics_, and decided that nothing came up to the poetry of the abbe Delille.
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