"Emigree" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "An emigree—a charming woman!" whispered Lady Delacour "she was to have been at the drawing-room to-day but for a blunder of mine: ready dressed she was, and I didn't call for her! Ah, Mad. de Pomenars, I am actually ...
— Tales and Novels, Vol. III - Belinda • Maria Edgeworth
... this young countess, educated by an emigree French governess, imbibed from the Russian air she breathed that spirit and obtained that manner which the pas de chale * would, one would have supposed, long ago have effaced? But the spirit and the movements were those inimitable and unteachable Russian ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy |
