tout ensemble
Example Sentences
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The tree was profusely hung with elegant paper lamps, and although there were no pine-branches, only palm leaves, the "tout ensemble," bore a strong resemblance to a genuine Christmas tree.
The horses are well-bred, though many of them not well groomed; the riders are graceful and plucky, and the tout ensemble makes a fair picture to the lover of horseflesh and sport.
From Ladies in the Field: Sketches of Sport by Greville, Beatrice Violet Graham
Otherwise the hearer's attention will be diverted from the tout ensemble.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus
His keen and often expressive glance, his firm voice made mild by emotion, the tout ensemble of his character, seems to call him to great crimes or sublime actions.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
But when he left his bedroom on the morning of Winslow’s arrival, he had considerably more of the English Squire than the Australian Squatter about his tout ensemble.
From From Squire to Squatter A Tale of the Old Land and the New by Stables, Gordon
