gascon

Example Sentences

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You know, Comrades, I only said that en gascon, and to afford him the greater pleasure in our rencontre.

From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James

Nearly as large as Hackett's Falstaff, he was as much a gascon as the hero of the Merry Wives of Windsor.

From Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation by Knox, Thomas Wallace

A wit without sense, without fancy, a beau, Like a parrot he chatters, and struts like a crow; A peacock in pride, in grimace a baboon, In courage a hind, in conceit a gascon.

From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by L'Estrange, Alfred Guy Kingan