parapluie
Example Sentences
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Noticing that his Lordship had no defence against the weather, I ventured to offer the Peer my parapluie.
From Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 30, 1892 by Various
Five minutes afterward Bazin set off on a full trot, urging on his horse by the blows of a parapluie, which he was in the habit of using instead of a riding whip.
From Twenty Years After by Dumas père, Alexandre
On our asking him how he liked the hydropathic system, he replied, "Oh, mais c'est charmant, mon ami; I always take my parapluie wid me into de bath."
From Umbrellas and Their History by Sangster, William
Imagine the parallel case of an invalid carrying a heavy modern carriage umbrella, and then you have some sort of an idea of the tax Hanway’s parapluie must have been upon his strength.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Harper, Charles G. (Charles George)
Or his French successor, the nobleman in "The Grand Duchess," who inquires, in plaintive accents, for "Le parapluie de ma mere," just after Schneider has been declaiming about her father's sabre?
From Umbrellas and Their History by Sangster, William
