tout ensemble
Example Sentences
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But it was not so much the movements of the military that attracted my attention, as the tout ensemble of the crowd.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
It was his towering, bald forehead, and something of command and savage energy in his lowering face, that redeemed the tout ensemble from an almost brutal vulgarity.
From Checkmate by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
His keen and often expressive glance, his firm voice made mild by emotion, the tout ensemble of his character, seems to call him to great crimes or sublime actions.
From The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 3, June, 1851 by Various
Otherwise the hearer's attention will be diverted from the tout ensemble.
From Johann Sebastian Bach by Forkel, Johann Nikolaus
A small, unnecessary exhibition of snuff about the nose completed the tout ensemble of the Laird of Scouthercakes.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
