Word: nousness
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...Nous pouvons, nous devons-"We [the French people] can, we must make our own guns, tanks and planes. . . . We can, we must have 20, 30, 40 or more [Army] divisions...
...Contre nous de la tyrannie...
When Bazaine rode out to command the vital border fortress of Metz in 1870 (and, a month later, to become Commander in Chief of France's Army of the Rhine), he was heard to mutter: "Nous marchons a un désastre. (We're marching to a disaster.)" Napoleon III, unable to sit a horse (because of bladder trouble), his face rouged (to conceal his deathly pallor from his troops), followed close behind General MacMahon's doomed army. When MacMahon blundered into a German trap at Sedan, the Emperor mounted a horse despite his pain, rode along...
...Malaya, Weller found equally omi nous differences. British mistrust of native qualities was paralleled by Malayan hatred for the 2,000,000 Chinese in their midst...
...Athene Palace worked for Moruzov, they said, from waiters and washroom attendants to "the apple-cheeked page boys . . . and, of course, the demimondaines who sat professionally in the lobby." Warned Bratianu-beard, "Watch your step, Madame, and confide in nobody except in us." Said the Grey hound: "Nous sommes les seules personnes discrètes a Bucharest...