Citations:démêlé

English citations of démêlé

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• 1813, William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), The Quarterly Review, volume 9, John Murray, page 102:

  We have here a very curious account of the démêlé between the Encyclopédistes and their printer and publisher, M. Breton, (who was also a joint proprietor of the work,) on occasion of a discovery, made too late for prevention or remedy, of the ‘horrible’ mutilations which this nefarious printer and his foreman had taken upon them to make in almost all of the principal articles of the last ten volumes, as they went to the press.

• 1830, James Webster Wedderburn, Henry Gally Knight, A Reply to Mr. Gally Knight’s Letter to the Earl of Aberdeen, on the Foreign Policy of England, C.J.G. and F. Rivington, page 4:

  Our interference or share in the démêlé was strictly contingent,—to be determined and controuled by events which did not arise, but which would have amply justified it if we had; and was in no degree inconsistent with the dignified principle of neutrality which is equally due to ourselves and to others as the first member of the European family.

• 1840, Frances Milton Trollope, The Vicar of Wrexhill, R. Bentley, page 145:

  Their last démêlé had been too serious to be forgotten by either ; and her opinion of him was such, that far from wishing to conciliate him, or in any way to efface the impression of what she had said on leaving him, her inclination and her principles both led her to wish that it should be indelible, and that nothing should ever lessen the distance that was now placed between them.

• 1904, Carl Friedrich Glasenapp, William Ashton Ellis, Life of Richard Wagner, volume 4, K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Company, page 472:

  Next week I shall send Härtel two or three numbers which I have transcribed myself, and which I promised him long before the démêlé you have had with him.