Word: ehs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Fidel Castro: "The ground's a little wet today, eh?" Puff, puff. "I have a new cutting technique." Whack. Zing. Chonk. "First the lower part and then the upper part." Chop. Chonk...
...Britain would insist on celebrating the 150th anniversary of Waterloo last year? Eh bien, mes amis, this year France gets her revenge. October 14th is the 900th anniversary of the subjugation of the Anglo-Saxons by that doughty Norman, William the Conqueror. The five departments of ancient Normandy are planning all sorts of festivities, starting in April and including a yacht race to Hastings across the Channel as well as to what should be a well-attended convention of all the descendants of the Conqueror's army...
...examination. But this was not likely to discourage all the other Mallets. One scholar has concluded that the real Jean-Pierre Mallet was a French farmer who died not far from his birthplace in 1815, leaving an estate of $290-but Princess Ayoubi's reaction was probably typical. "Eh bien," she shrugged, "if it wasn't that Jean-Pierre Mallet who went to America, it was obviously another...
...parents, also divorced, were there too. Mama was wearing a Balenciaga, and Papa, who works with Gianni at stockbroking, was squiring his second wife. At evening's close, as the last of the Piper Heidsieck '59 bubbled away, Henry pronounced himself well pleased. "Great party, eh?" he inquired of newsmen while he thumped Gianni on the back. "He planned it all," said Henry. "Maybe I should put him in charge of an assembly line...
Upon being told that Christopher Columbus was not the first to discover America, a bulbous-nosed, sleepy-eyed Charles de Gaulle murmurs: "Eh bien, I congratulate him for that...