tout ensemble

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While the tout ensemble, his garments clinging to his shivering carcase, is in no wise calculated to invest his just exasperation with the majesty of outraged dignity.

From The Fire Trumpet A Romance of the Cape Frontier by Mitford, Bertram

I well recollect the tout ensemble of that scene.

From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael

Individually these features were distinctly attractive, but there was something about the tout ensemble that supplied an immediate answer to the owner's extremely frank question.

From "Pip" A Romance of Youth by Hay, Ian

Taken tout ensemble this west front—of modern design and workmanship—is far more expressive of the excellent and true proportions of the medi�val workers than is usually the case.

From The Cathedrals of Southern France by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)

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