fainéant
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The government of a native state by clerks and chuprassies, with a beautiful fainéant Political Agent for Sundays and Hindu festivals, is, I am told, a thing of the past.
From Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series by George Robert Aberigh-Mackay
Bull, the sixth boy in No. 7, was the only fainéant among them, though he did occasionally help to keep off the smaller fry.
From Eric by F. W. (Frederic William) Farrar
George de Lacorfe, fashionable, fainéant and forty, reader of The Pink 'Un, ardent bachelor, Basker in short, suddenly finds the dukedom of Cheviot thrust upon him.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, January 12, 1916 by Sir Owen Seaman
The lord no doubt was a fool, and filled the most foolish place in the world,—that of a silly fainéant earl.
From The Landleaguers by Anthony Trollope
Even after Tullia was dead the Republic had come again for him, and something might be done to stir up these fainéant nobles!
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
She extols them both, and makes over to their joint care and tuition the fainéants aforesaid.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 by Various
After Dagobert's death these mayors practically ruled in the place of the Merovingian monarchs, who became mere "do-nothing kings,"—rois fainéants, as the French call them.
From An Introduction to the History of Western Europe by James Harvey Robinson
Any quantity of heraldries of knaves and fainéants you may find in what they call their 'history': but this is probably the first time you ever read the name of Robert of Luzarches.
From Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens by John Ruskin
Bold might the planton be; we were no fainéants.
From The Enormous Room by E. E. (Edward Estlin) Cummings
Others are weaklings, fainéants; but one, the most dread woman in Frankish history, Fredegonda, the queen of Chilperic, towers above all in this masque of slaughter and treachery.
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Lewis Spence
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