Cloots

[ klohts ]

noun

1. Jean Bap·tiste du Val-de-Grâce [zhah, n, ba-, teest, d, y, val-d, uh, -, grahs], Baron de Anacharsis Clootz, 1755–94, Prussian leader in the French Revolution.

Example Sentences

Cloots stepped into the chapel for no purpose, in mere idle discernment of color and contrast.

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"Mah Soung is dead," repeated Cloots, and an echo ran back and forth between the walls with his word.

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Cloots arrived as a confident and more or less truly appreciative observer of all these details.

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Cloots had taken the measure of him months before and once for all, he would have said, in his smoky little village.

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Yet Cloots saw now with transfixing clarity that he did not know him in the least—could never have known him.

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