tout ensemble

Example Sentences

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It was his towering, bald forehead, and something of command and savage energy in his lowering face, that redeemed the tout ensemble from an almost brutal vulgarity.

From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

And that disturbance of the heart's action which Eulenburg and Guttmann consider an essential element is found in Cases 1, 2, 4 and 5; so that the tout ensemble presented by Case 4 is corroborated.

From New, Old, and Forgotten Remedies: Papers by Many Writers by Anshutz, Edward Pollock

He could vouch certainly for the genuineness of the kimino, but the tout ensemble was too much for him.

From A Flight in Spring In the car Lucania from New York to the Pacific coast and back, during April and May, 1898 by Knowles, J. Harris (John Harris)

In short, the tout ensemble of this strange youth was that of a noble and handsome boy that another brace of summers would develop into a splendid-looking man.

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

While the tout ensemble, his garments clinging to his shivering carcase, is in no wise calculated to invest his just exasperation with the majesty of outraged dignity.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram