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gendarme
1. Someone told me that Bernie, or, ‘Hercules,’ which is what his real fake name was, was a police officer before the war, a gendarme in the Surete Belgique, or whatever
2. The gendarme are not armed
3. I was halfway to the exit when a gendarme directed me to a door where I was herded into a room with several other large-nosed, olive-skinned young men, there to be frisked and asked to show my papers
4. He was however preempted by the appearance of the two visitors, who were climbing the stairs while being led by a gendarme
5. The girl then opened the cover of her box to let the gendarme look inside it
6. The gendarme watched the small group enter the bank with its chests before exchanging a bemused glance with his comrade
7. At that time, the police-man (gendarme) was held in high esteem and respected by all people because he received certain entitlements from the government and other authorities that most people did not have
8. The gendarme awakened astounded
9. Our officer turned to the gendarme and asked, ‘How good are you at giving military instructions Abu Mohammad?’
10. In this fashion, the convoy walked across the most important main streets of the al-Akrad and al-Salhiyeh areas in Damascus, and whenever they met a gendarme of the security forces, our officer recruited him to the convoy to help maintain order and control matters until they arrived eventually at the appropriate destination… the prison!
11. This particular gendarme was so fond of his master and chief… wishing to stay by his side day and night and to carry out his every command for he felt his humaneness in the depths of his own spirit, which overwhelmed him with compassion, cordiality, tenderness and goodwill
12. This gendarme had been endowed with a huge muscular body and he was known as the powerful giant of his time and he was thought of as a hero
13. At the same time, there was another giant equal in physical stature to the herculean gendarme, both in bulk and height, and with a similar pugnacious personality
14. Yet, it pleased Al’lah to let the gendarme sleep a little also, before the train’s arrival at the quarantine and sterilisation area, so his master, Aslan, stayed asleep too, blissfully unaware! Then, the train departed and continued on its way without the officer and his men having carried out the required procedures
15. Immediately, he called the gendarme wondering why he had failed to wake him as requested, ‘Oh, my son! Why didn’t you awake me when the train stopped at the quarantine centre as I told you?’ Feeling afraid and confused, the gendarme replied, ‘Oh, Sir… oh, Sir! I swear by God, that I fell asleep Sir
16. By virtue of his great qualities and mercifulness he did not blame or punish the gendarme for this unexpected situation: it was the Will of Al’lah which had been carried out, and he knew that there was no might nor power except apart from that which came from Al’lah
17. And while poking fun at the show, Rodolphe, to move about more easily, showed the gendarme his blue card, and even stopped now and then in front of some fine beast, which Madame Bovary did not at all admire
18. gendarme offered him, disappeared, saying, "Bring in the prisoner
19. "It is for you," replied a gendarme
20. In spite of his repugnance to address the guards, Dantes turned to the nearest gendarme,
21. The gendarme looked irresolutely at his companion, who returned for answer a sign that
22. "The Chateau d'If?" cried he, "what are we going there for?" The gendarme smiled
23. "There are only," said the gendarme, "a governor, a garrison, turnkeys, and good thick walls
24. "Good!" said the gendarme, placing his knee on his chest; "believe soft-spoken gentlemen again! Harkye, my friend, I have disobeyed my first order, but I will not disobey the second; and if you move, I will blow your brains out
25. de Villefort's promise; and, besides, death in a boat from the hand of a gendarme seemed too terrible
26. Still Dantes could not view without a shudder the approach of a gendarme who accompanied the officers deputed to demand his bill of health ere the yacht was permitted to hold communication with the shore; but with that perfect self-possession he had acquired during his acquaintance with Faria, Dantes coolly presented an English passport he had obtained from Leghorn, and as this gave him a standing which a French passport would not have afforded, he was informed that there existed no obstacle to his immediate debarkation
27. 'What does he mean?' asked a gendarme
28. A gendarme was crossing the court
29. A gendarme is one of the most striking objects in the world, even to a man void of uneasiness; but for one who has a timid conscience, and with good cause too, the yellow, blue, and white uniform is really very alarming
30. "Why is that gendarme there?" asked Andrea of himself
31. Then, all at once, he replied, with that logic which the reader has, doubtless, remarked in him, "There is nothing astonishing in seeing a gendarme at an inn; instead of being astonished, let me dress myself
32. Not only was the first gendarme still there, but the young man now perceived a second yellow, blue, and white uniform at the foot of the staircase, the only one by which he could descend, while a third, on horseback, holding a musket in his fist, was posted as a sentinel at the great street door which alone afforded the means of egress
33. The appearance of the third gendarme settled the matter, for a crowd of curious loungers was extended before him, effectually blocking the entrance to the hotel
34. This late arrival had attracted much suspicion, and the young man being no other than Andrea, the commissary and gendarme, who was a brigadier, directed their steps towards his room
35. The fact was, that Andrea, at war with society ever since his youth, was quite as deep as a gendarme, even though he were advanced to the rank of brigadier, and quite prepared for the fire, he had climbed out on the roof and was crouching down against the chimney-pots
36. At the same minute, one of the little windows of the Hotel de Ville was thrown open, and the head of a gendarme appeared
37. "Ah," said the brigadier, stopping the servant, "the person who is ringing appears to want something more than a waiter; we will attend upon him with a gendarme
38. "Some gendarme!" he exclaimed
39. And while poking fun at the show, Rodolphe, to move about more easily, showed the gendarme his blue card, and even stopped now
40. A gendarme was seated near the door, on the stone bench which General Drouot had mounted on the 4th of March to read to the frightened throng of the inhabitants of D——the proclamation of the Gulf Juan
41. The man pulled off his cap and humbly saluted the gendarme
42. The gendarme, without replying to his salute, stared attentively at him, followed him for a while with his eyes, and then entered the town-hall
43. He distinguished, here and there in that swarming and formless mass, now near him, now afar off and on inaccessible table-lands, some group, some detail, vividly illuminated; here the galley-sergeant and his cudgel; there the gendarme and his sword; yonder the mitred archbishop; away at the top, like a sort of sun, the Emperor, crowned and dazzling
44. While he was at work, a gendarme passed, observed him, and demanded his papers
45. "Silence!" said the gendarme
46. I have been in prison, and they have been dragging me about for the last three months; more than that I cannot say; people talk against me, they tell me, 'Answer!' The gendarme, who is a good fellow, nudges my elbow, and says to me in a low voice, 'Come, answer!' I don't know how to explain; I have no education; I am a poor man; that is where they wrong me, because they do not see this
47. The usher, accompanied by a gendarme ready to lend him armed assistance, introduced the convict Brevet
48. A gendarme held a light close to it; there was the date
49. When one heard her speak, one said, "That is a gendarme"; when one saw her drink, one said, "That is a carter"; when one saw her handle Cosette, one said, "That is the hangman
50. A gendarme stationed opposite frowned