juste milieu
Example Sentences
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When the subject was disposed of, the writer asked his friend the object of these unusual investigations, and was told that they were for the use of a leading Deputy, who was thoroughly juste milieu.
From A Residence in France With an Excursion Up the Rhine, and a Second Visit to Switzerland by Cooper, James Fenimore
The juste milieu of brandy, so favored in 1832, if we can believe Mr. Hamilton, was not thought of in 1857.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 by Various
I will cling with tenacity to that juste milieu under which we have hitherto so eminently prospered.
From The Infernal Marriage by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield
His political position in the juste milieu is unexciting.
From Old Mortality, Volume 1. by Scott, Walter, Sir
In stirrups, as in most other things, there is a juste milieu; and if the American dragoon is on one side of that, so is the Arab of the Desert on the other.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 1, July, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
