tout ensemble
Example Sentences
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A white band bound across the chin up to the lips suggests a broken jaw, and the tout ensemble of the various wrappings of the head a perennial toothache.
From Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume I (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs by Bird, Isabella L. (Isabella Lucy)
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
I well recollect the tout ensemble of that scene.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
The shadow cast from the declivity of the ravine increased the horrid tout ensemble of the scene, which the increasing darkness half hid.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Sue, Eugène
Harry had been more than usually scrupulous in his dress; but when they met at the breakfast-table, his guest’s clerical tout ensemble beat him hollow.
From Tales from Blackwood Volume 9 by Various
