Sentence Examples

1. A gendarme is one of the most striking objects in the world, even to a man void of uneasiness but for one who has a timid conscience, and with good cause too, the yellow, blue, and white uniform is really very alarming.
2. The fact was, that Andrea, at war with society ever since his youth, was quite as deep as a gendarme, even though he were advanced to the rank of brigadier, and quite prepared for the fire, he had climbed out on the roof and was crouching down against the chimney-pots.
3. We then went into the other rooms, and into the yard a gendarme accompanying us throughout.
4. At the same minute, one of the little windows of the Hôtel de Ville was thrown open, and the head of a gendarme appeared.
5. This late arrival had attracted much suspicion, and the young man being no other than Andrea, the commissary and gendarme, who was a brigadier, directed their steps towards his room.
6. At this precise time, the first gendarme Andrea had noticed walked upstairs, preceded by the commissary of police, and supported by the second gendarme who guarded the staircase and was himself reinforced by the one stationed at the door.
7. Not only was the first gendarme still there, but the young man now perceived a second yellow, blue, and white uniform at the foot of the staircase, the only one by which he could descend, while a third, on horseback, holding a musket in his fist, was posted as a sentinel at the great street-door which alone afforded the means of egress.
8. It was now his turn to look about him the Hôtel de Ville, a massive sixteenth century building, was on his right anyone could descend from the openings in the tower, and examine every corner of the roof below, and Andrea expected momentarily to see the head of a gendarme appear at one of these openings.
9. The appearance of the third gendarme settled the matter, for a crowd of curious loungers was extended before him, effectually blocking the entrance to the hotel.