Lexicographical Neighbors of Terribles
Literary usage of Terribles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The 32nd Division in the World War, 1917-1919 by Wisconsin War History Commission, Michigan War History Commission (1920)
""Les terribles" Report to General Mangin. HE last tired doughboys sifted out of
the front line positions during the forenoon of August 7th, ..."
2. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers: Biographical and Critical by Michael Bryan (1886)
"... terribles,' ' Les Parents terribles,' and his ' Maris Vengés ; ' he also
illustrated some of Hoffmann's and Schmidt's tales in quite ..."
3. Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, George Walter Prothero, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle (1850)
"If he had said, in reference to his own share in them, that they had been
vainglorious, it would have been true; but that they were not only ' terribles ..."
4. The Westminster Review by John Chapman, Charles William Wason (1827)
""Je lançais des mots terribles, et c'était à moi surtout qu'ils faisaient peur.
... If his " mots terribles" imposed upon the persons ha feared, ..."
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