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    Use "jeanne" in a sentence

    jeanne example sentences

    jeanne


    1. First, I visited an author friend, John and his wife Jeanne in Mississippi for advice on getting published through royalty companies and the former was quite helpful in the hours that we spent together


    2. They found Jeanne Leclerc, the French geomatics expert, sitting alone in one of the command chairs


    3. Jeanne smiled briefly to them, then activated her headset microphone for the umpteenth time in her watch


    4. Jeanne shook her head


    5. “I don’t know! Jeanne only said that it was called ‘HERMES’


    6. He saw on the small video screen of the panel Jeanne fiddle with the controls of one of the external cameras


    7. ” Said Jeanne over the intercom


    8. Would you like to review my troops before the briefing, Jeanne?”


    9. “LINE UP THE TROOPS FOR INSPECTION! JEANNE D’ARC WILL REVIEW


    10. Dorothy Dandridge was the first to follow her counsel, followed by Jeanne Crain and Cara Williams, gluing herself to the old man, whose extremities were become pale from the cold

    11. I am talking of the mysterious d’Orléans Social Foundation, this French charity and social help society established in Paris in 1848 by a young aristocrat named Jeanne d’Orléans


    12. That finally decided me into doing a discreet inquiry through time, via robotic spy probes, about that d’Orléans Social Foundation and on that Jeanne d’Orléans


    13. ‘’What you will see is a video taken of the said Jeanne d’Orléans in 1848, at her Paris residence


    14. In 1848, the said Jeanne d’Orléans could not be more than twenty years old


    15. In fact, my investigation in the past revealed that Jeanne d’Orléans was born in 1829 under the name of Jeanne Marie Céleste de Brissac


    16. Jeanne, according to official French documents of the time, married in 1846 in the Guadeloupe Knight Pierre Alphonse d’Orléans


    17. Once in Paris, Jeanne d’Orléans managed to quickly fatten her fortune via a number of very successful financial speculations and founded a year later her social aid society


    18. ‘’This Jeanne d’Orléans seems to spread goodness and compassion around her


    19. I will be happy to become Jeanne d’Orléans


    20. Jeanne smiled with amusement and looked at him

    21. ‘’Let’s say that well-born girls are rare in the Guadeloupe, Jeanne


    22. Jumping down on the ground with Jeanne once in front of his residence, Pierre let the cart in the hands of Fernand and showed the wooden façade of his house, which seemed to have been damaged and then repaired summarily


    23. ‘’You will excuse the appearance of my house, Jeanne, but a terrible earthquake struck this island three years ago


    24. Jeanne nodded her head while inspecting the façade


    25. A stoutly-built black woman with a sympathetic face came in at once from the kitchen, to open wide eyes on seeing Jeanne, who was still only wearing her half-dried shirt


    26. Can you prepare a good hot bath for Jeanne and also wash her hair


    27. With Jeanne following the servant, Pierre then ended alone in his living room


    28. Marthe returned with Jeanne a bit less than one hour later, as another servant was preparing the covers on the dining table, situated at one end of the lounge


    29. Pierre smiled to Jeanne, who was now wearing a male set of clothes that ill fitted her


    30. Jeanne, who seemed to be still disoriented, returned his smile

    31. He was however thinking furiously as he kept looking discreetly from time to time at Jeanne, who was eating slowly


    32. If not, the busybodies around Saint-François would not hesitate to call a baby born too quickly from Jeanne a bastard


    33. As a consequence, she had been forced to modify slightly her original cover story for her role as Jeanne de Brissac in 1846


    34. Next morning, Pierre had his cart readied and left with Jeanne for the small town of Saint-François, situated a few kilometers to the southwest of his plantation


    35. Keeping to small talk on the way, Pierre did his best to relax Jeanne by chatting about the town and the local life


    36. Despite the fact that Jeanne seemed more than satisfied by his acquisitions, Pierre promised himself to one day bring her to Pointe-à-Pitre, the main port of the Guadeloupe and a place where he knew that he would find some gowns worthy of an aristocrat girl


    37. On the other hand, Jeanne, with her uncommon height and athletic body, was well noticed in Saint-François, where the coming of new French settlers was fairly rare these days


    38. One plantation owner, intrigued by Jeanne, visited a tailor shop after Pierre and Jeanne and spoke with the tailor, who told him in turn about the scars on Jeanne’s torso


    39. Returning to the plantation by the end of the afternoon with a Jeanne apparently happy about their acquisitions, Pierre took an hour to go inspect the various works in progress in his fields and in his sugar extraction plant


    40. He found Jeanne there, wearing one of her new dresses and playing with brio a piece of music unknown to Pierre

    41. Seeing him approach, Jeanne gave him a big smile while continuing to play


    42. ’’ Replied Jeanne in a playful tone before changing her tune on the piano


    43. His heart warmed up as he watched Jeanne sing and play, radiant with beauty and talent


    44. The multiple talents just shown by Jeanne basically ruled out a possibility that had worried him since yesterday: that Jeanne had lied to him and was in reality a pirate herself, a thought brought by her tall and strong body and her torture marks


    45. Pierre listened to two more songs by Jeanne, who played the guitar for her last song


    46. Now truly hooked on, Pierre shared an agreeable supper with Jeanne, whose morale seemed to have improved a lot since yesterday


    47. That time with Jeanne finished convincing Pierre that she had received a quality education that only a true aristocrat could get


    48. Sleep came with difficulty for him that night, with images of Jeanne filling his mind


    49. During the following days, Jeanne revealed herself to be a girl with a heart of gold and with liberal, progressive ideas, treating with respect and kindness the ex-slaves of the plantation and their families and showing interest in their welfare


    50. Pierre, who was in bad terms with his white neighbors because of his so-called ‘softness’ towards his black workers, much appreciated that side of Jeanne, while she gained quickly the affection of the plantation’s workers














































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