Example collocations logo

Messieurs in sentence

19 examples of Messieurs in a sentence

Today’s diplomats could do worse than recall the warning of the great French statesman Talleyrand: “ Surtout, messieurs, point de zéle .”
Messieurs Musketeers, I will not have this haunting of bad places, this quarreling in the streets, this swordplay at the crossways; and above all, I will not have occasion given for the cardinal’s Guards, who are brave, quiet, skillful men who never put themselves in a position to be arrested, and who, besides, never allow themselves to be arrested, to laugh at you!
They called upon him then to retire; but he answered that he was a Musketeer at heart, entirely devoted to your Majesty, and that therefore he would remain with Messieurs the Musketeers."
29 HUNTING FOR THE EQUIPMENTSThe most preoccupied of the four friends was certainly d’Artagnan, although he, in his quality of Guardsman, would be much more easily equipped than Messieurs the Musketeers, who were all of high rank; but our Gascon cadet was, as may have been observed, of a provident and almost avaricious character, and with that (explain the contradiction) so vain as almost to rival Porthos.
Only, as our Gascon was not easily intimidated--or rather, thanks to a great pride natural to the men of his country, he did not allow one easily to see what was passing in his mind when that which was passing at all resembled fear--he placed himself haughtily in front of Messieurs the Guards, and waited with his hand on his hip, in an attitude by no means deficient in majesty.
Your companions are no doubt Messieurs Porthos and Aramis."
"Messieurs Athos, Porthos, and Aramis."
"It appears that Messieurs the Musketeers keep guard," said he."Are the English expected by land, or do the Musketeers consider themselves superior officers?"
"Messieurs Porthos and Aramis," repeated Athos, "you who are her judges, what is the sentence you pronounce upon this woman?"
So he turned toward the door, and with the best grace in the world (so well had he trained himself to it), when the usher announced, in a sonorous voice, "Messieurs the Envoys of Monsieur the Duke of Austria."
"Messieurs the bourgeois and squires of Paris, I don't know, cross of God! what we are doing here.
What say you, Messieurs les bourgeois?
"I see that messieurs the archers of the king's police easily take fire at the handsome eyes of gypsies!""Why not?" said Phoebus.
'Tis very ill done, I am conscious, to expose messieurs the sergeants of the watch to the liability of cudgelling beneath this cassock the humerus of a Pythagorean philosopher.
"They are messieurs the masters of requests of the king's household."
Messieurs Flemings, come and see this; 'tis curious."
Is it not so, Messieurs Flemings?"
"Messeigneurs! messieurs the sergeants, one word.
Du reste dans son mépris pour des magistrats sans probité, il ne leur dit exactement que ces paroles :– Je suis malade, messieurs, je me meurs de langueur, et vous m’excuserez si je ne puis me lever.