frondeur
Example Sentences
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Then suddenly he added, "Apropos, have you heard that Eug�ne has become one of the leaders of these frondeur madmen?"
From The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes by Sabatini, Rafael
This brilliant young officer, by nature somewhat a frondeur, was finally guilty of expressions so disrespectful as to lead to his removal shortly before that of Paoli.
From William Pitt and the Great War by Rose, John Holland
Diana dismissed it with contempt, as the shaft of a frondeur discredited by both parties.
From The Testing of Diana Mallory by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.
Tallemant says that the Marquis "avait terriblement d'esprit, mais un peu frondeur."
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
Some one had once called him a frondeur; he was greatly delighted with that name.
From On the Eve by Garnett, Constance
