Lexicographical Neighbors of Embusque
Literary usage of Embusque
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. En Repos and Elsewhere Over There: Verses Written in France, 1917-1918 by Lansing Warren, Robert A. Donaldson (1918)
"... THE embusque" IN PEACE AND WAR ALL men have been sorted these warlike days
Into various species of ..."
2. The White Flame of France by Maude Lavinia Radford Warren (1918)
"The " embusque " smiled faintly, as one who has received a compliment, and I
tried to smile ... embusque," or slacker, may be the most insulting or the most ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"'How did your son die, madame?' 'Typhoid.' ' Ah! So that was one more embusque.
Mine is not dead, madame, he was killed in the Argonne! ..."
4. Above the Battles by André Albret, C. H. A. André, Philip Duncan Wilson (1919)
"You called me an embusque,* son of an embusque; you said I was favoured by the
gods and by men and that I was in clover." V is reading a letter in the ..."
5. Italy, France and Britain at War by Herbert George Wells (1917)
"We also disputed whether there was an equivalent in English for embusque.
Every now and then a shell came over — an aimless shell. ..."
6. Italy, France and Britain at War by Herbert George Wells (1917)
"I was asked quite a number of times for the English equivalent of an embusque.
"We don't generalise," I said, " we treat each case on its merits! ..."
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