Word: plait
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...Nere (Colette) finds that she is in love again, she writes, "I tremble too much lest I should see rising, through the veil of the rain, a country garden, green and black, silvered by the rising moon which passes the shadow of a young girl dreamily winding her long plait around her wrist, like a caressing snake...
...Gaunt Faces. In such a book, arrangement counts heavily. Picture History's twelve sections skillfully plait far-flung but interrelated events into a clean-cut chronology. The result is a sense of historical meaning, from Hitler's first martial rumbles to the dramatic ceremony on the deck of the Missouri. Much of the book's clean impact comes from the 75,000-word text, written mostly by Novelist John Dos Passos and TIME Correspondent Robert Sherrod. Closely wedded to the pictures, their text is at once sharp description and lucid interpretation...
...trail rope to throw that out piece by piece. Soon after he heard the cries of sea gulls and looked down to see the lights of beachside restaurants and hotels. A woman was walking down a long, straight road. "Madame," called Joseph politely, "s'il vous plait, l'Angleterre ici?" The Englishwoman looked up. "Oui, monsieur," she answered and continued steadily...
Near a soft-drink bar in the main building of the University of Ottawa hangs a crudely crayoned sign: "S'il vous plait-please-pas de bouteilles-no bottles-dans le-in the-gym." Students shout to each other in English, answer in French. Professors teach all courses in two languages. Everywhere on the campus of Canada's lone bilingual university le bilinguisme is casually accepted...
...Twenty-five hours later, a Long Island Railroad passenger special hit an open (hand-operated) switch at Kings Park, L.I., promptly folded itself into a herringbone plait. Injured...