juste milieu

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One's toilet must be a delicate compromise between ball attire and full visiting dress, but Mademoiselle Melanie has hit the juste milieu; and succeeded in carrying me through all the perils of Scylla and Charybdis.

From Fairy Fingers A Novel by Ritchie, Anna Cora Ogden Mowatt

His Gymnase repertory is of the Left Centre, the juste milieu, nearer the National Guard than the royal guard.

From The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron

Now it was precisely in attempting the juste milieu between these extremes that our prophetical speculators wrecked themselves.

From The Eclipse of Faith Or, A Visit To A Religious Sceptic by Rogers, Henry

This last is a juste milieu view by no means in favour with the inhabitants of either place.

From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

The system of the juste milieu means little more than to profess one thing and to do another; it is a stupendous fraud, and sooner or later will be so viewed and appropriately rewarded.

From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore