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Example sentences for "bagatelle"

Lexicographically close words:
baffled; baffles; baffling; bag; bagasse; bagatelles; bagel; bagful; baggage; baggageman
  1. My disappointment must seem a bagatelle to you, who will be so distressed at leaving your old home.

  2. Then the subject of bagatelle happened to come up, and presently Stephen was again delighting and astonishing the good gentleman by his skill in that game.

  3. I knew a nice little boy once, just your age, that used to come and see me regular once a week and play bagatelle with me.

  4. Either he or one of his predecessors purchased a brilliant for which he paid the bagatelle of four hundred thousand dollars.

  5. A good life secures an elevated and happy life on earth, or as a blessed spirit in one of the many heavens, where existence is continued for a bagatelle of ten billion years.

  6. If you haven't anything better to do, drop in at the Bagatelle and give Walters my love, and tell them not to worry at home.

  7. In the bottom were a few odd garments, above was the hat with the purple feather, now shabby and discarded, on the hooks a skirt and jacket Lise wore to work at the Bagatelle in bad weather.

  8. The Bagatelle she despised; that was slavery--but slavery out of which she might any day be snatched, like Leila Hawtrey, by a prince charming who had made a success in life.

  9. Go home like a good little girl and march back to the Bagatelle and ask 'em to give me another show standing behind a counter all day.

  10. Even if I was stuck on the burg and cryin' my eyes out for the Bagatelle I couldn't go back.

  11. A long way, too, from the Bagatelle and Fillmore Street--but to Lise a way not impossible, nor even improbable.

  12. There was a sort of engagement that she and Jack De Baron were to come and play bagatelle in the back drawing-room; but Jack never comes if he says he will, and I daresay she has forgotten all about it.

  13. Playing at bagatelle with Jack De Baron for new hats, and she with the prospect before her of being Marchioness of Brotherton!

  14. If you mean to forbid me to play bagatelle with Captain De Baron, or Captain anybody else, or to talk with Mr. This, or to laugh with Major That, tell me so at once.

  15. I do not think that playing bagatelle for new hats is--is--the best employment in the world either for a lady or for a gentleman.

  16. I don't know that bagatelle is a very improving occupation.

  17. But the bagatelle would almost have been better than what occurred.

  18. And, after all, when they got to Berkeley Square no bagatelle was played at all.

  19. Do you think that playing bagatelle is--nice?

  20. I have played bagatelle with Captain de Baron, and I daresay I may again.

  21. Was it to be endured that his wife should make appointments to play bagatelle with Jack De Baron by way of passing her time?

  22. Bagatelle is played with nine ivory balls on a special table or board, oblong in shape, from 6 to 10 ft.

  23. Went to see Bagatelle yesterday with the Duchesse de G----.

  24. Vive la Bagatelle is the philosophy of our family,--ha?

  25. Cousin Egerton, shou'd not you like to have a wife with Vive la Bagatelle upon her wedding chariot?

  26. Vive la Bagatelle would be a most brilliant motto for the chariot of a belle of fashion.

  27. But one day, about six months before his visit to Geary's office, Vandover saw that the proprietor of the Reno House had set up a great bagatelle board in a corner of the reading-room.

  28. He quickly abandoned the bagatelle board for the card-table, gambling furiously with two of the ranchmen.

  29. Bagatelle was formerly the elegant little palace of the count d'Artois.

  30. He hurried off, and in a moment the clack of bagatelle began again.

  31. It was furnished with a bagatelle board, two or three wooden tables, some wooden forms, and a wooden bookcase.

  32. But he had not time to finish before the clack of bagatelle balls ceased, and the voice of the little deep-eyed man was heard saying: "Anybody who wants a book will put his name down.

  33. The Rue de Longchamps is a narrow suburban street, little built on at this end, that gives on the Bagatelle Gate to the Bois de Boulogne, beside the training ground of the same name.

  34. He raised the little lid with his finger-nail, and a shower of percussion caps fell on the bagatelle table.

  35. He looked a doubtful sort of a customer, sure enough, but he was able to prove that he was playing bagatelle in the inn last night at the time the murder was committed.

  36. After we finished shooting some of us had a game of bagatelle on a table in the gun-room.

  37. He could only have left it on the bagatelle board or one of the chairs," replied Phil earnestly.

  38. They were firing from behind the bagatelle board at a target fixed over there," said Phil, pointing to the far wall.

  39. Colwyn lifted the case down from the embrasure in which it was placed, and carried it to the bagatelle table.

  40. I should suppress the bagatelle which happened on the occasion of this journey, if it did not serve more and more to characterize the King.

  41. The most important operation was directed against the German position of the Blanleuil Croupe, lying between Sec Ravin and the Ravine of Fontaine-Madame, from which it was possible to enfilade the Bagatelle salient.

  42. The French had established themselves on the two parallel roads which cross the forest: at Bagatelle on the northern road, in Gruerie Wood and at the Barricade on the southern road.

  43. In December, 1914, they attacked Fontaine-Madame six times and Bagatelle three times.

  44. Against the salient from Bagatelle to the north of Four-de-Paris alone, on a front of about five miles, he launched two divisions.

  45. It is without doubt the king, and reigns triumphant over chess, backgammon, parlour croquet; and since those delightful miniature billiard tables have been introduced, it is rapidly superseding bagatelle as a parlour game.

  46. Consider what a man's genuine business must be like when he can jauntily allude to three hundred thousands as a bagatelle by the way.

  47. As usual, some bagatelle of a million or thereabouts had been betted on a horse which had won several races, and this animal was reckoned to be incapable of losing: but the untried animal shot out and galloped home an easy winner.

  48. The Presto remains for that in C minor," written about this time Nottebohm concludes that this Bagatelle was conceived as an intermezzo in the C minor Sonata, and that, possibly, the Allegretto had a similar origin.

  49. One beautiful spring day I went to revisit the Garden at Bagatelle and its pretty pavilion, then still abandoned, which the Comte d'Artois had built under Louis XVI.

  50. After dinner Mr. Forrest and I used to take lengthy rides, along wild roads, on horses of extraordinary capabilities, and in the evening we used to have bagatelle and reading aloud.

  51. On one or two evenings some very agreeable neighbours came in; and in addition to bagatelle we had puzzles, conundrums, and conjuring tricks.


  52. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bagatelle" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    bagatelle; bauble; bean; bit; button; cent; checkers; chess; damn; farce; farthing; feather; fig; fribble; frippery; game; gimcrack; hair; hoot; jest; joke; mockery; molehill; nothing; picayune; pin; rap; rush; shit; snap; sou; sport; straw; toy; trifle; trinket; triviality; tuppence