Word: dieu
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...remember tussles with loud and lusty liberating G.I.s in the Place Pigalle, tolerantly watched a fat and fatherly U.S. Army master sergeant padding down the street, Leica and guidebook in hand, followed at two paces by his German wife, at two paces more by his two blond children. "Man Dieu," she murmured to a grinning policeman, "how the Americans have changed...
...girl, being 23 years old, had every right to enter into a marriage contract. A letter from the Abbe to Lucile was introduced in evidence. It said, in part, "You must remain free . . . the marriage at Newport means nothing . . . Nothing obliges you to marry him . . . May le bon Dieu help you in your decision." In the court's opinion, this "constituted not advice, but an order." The facts, Judge Caron. found, clearly established that both mother and priest had refused to let Jacob Nicol see his wife, and "on these grounds alone" he was entitled to damages...
...Dieu!" he stared. "Are we not people of the world? Are we concerned with pettifogging prejudices? I marvel that you strain at such a gnat...
...meadow. The first thing I did was deflate the bag, wrap it up and go for help. Then I discovered that my landing place [Orfordness, near Ipswich] was a desert. I stumbled into bogs, fell into brambles, sprained my ankle in a slough. 'Mon Dieu' I said to myself, 'have they ceased to be watchful along their coasts, these British?' Finally I found a house. The people took me to a post office. There was a pretty little clerk there and she made two telephone calls-one to the police and one to the Daily Express...
...Italy's Victor Emmanuel (whom Eugénie detested), the King & Queen of Greece, and the Sultan of Turkey. When she left, the Sultan gave her a carpet on which was embroidered a portrait of her husband, the Emperor, with real human hair and a mustache. "Mon Dieu," exclaimed one of Eugénie's ladies, "quelle horreur...