coup d'oeil

I wonder that men who have been long in parliament do not acquire a better coup d'oeil for numbers.

The first coup d'oeil from the summit of the cliff 1500 feet above the level had suggested what a closer examination confirmed.

It is only when we get a coup d'oeil from either the head or the foot that you recognise that there are symbolisations.

I swear to you, " Vance halted her denial with a slight movement of the hand and a coup d'oeil.

Vance threw Heath a significant coup d'oeil, and the Sergeant made a note in the small leather-bound black book which lay before him on the desk.

In the centre, standing in a spacious circle, rises the great Dagoba, forming a grand coup d'oeil from the entrance gate.

Simplement pour que vous y jetiez un coup d'oeil.

Il lui jeta un bref coup d'oeil.

In 1773 'Le Coup d'oeil purin' protested against the suppression of the parlement of Rouen.

It was this image that accompanied me as I walked down the rue de Fleuve, stopping for a final coup d'oeil at the squat church crouching on its gravel ground.

If he looks like a creep, he receives the Coup d'oeil, which consists of a long, disbelieving stare followed by an unhurried view of the back of my neck.

Puis il se ressaisit et jeta un coup d'oeil autour de lui.

For the second exhibition, at the Coup d'Oeil Gallery Warhol Superstar Holly Woodlawn curated "The Batman Years."

Nothing remains but the COUP D'OEIL, the contemplative man's enjoyment, Mr. - ,' and he paused for the name.

De Négrier possessed to a high degree the quality known to the French as coup d'oeil, the ability to make an instant assessment of the battlefield and make the appropriate response.

Lusignan published (1872), as a continuation of a similar work by Judge Ramsay, a "Digest of Reported cases"; "Coups d'oeil et coups de plume" (1884).

Je ne pense pas que quelqu'un soit allé jeter un coup d'oeil chez lui.

The first coup d'oeil, as the sun slid into the position described, impressed me very much as I have been impressed, when a boy, by the concluding scene of some well-arranged theatrical spectacle or melodrama.

Coup d'oeil dialectométrique sur les Tableaux phonétiques des patois suisses romands, in: Vox romanica 44, 189-233.

Elle traversa le Cercle à Gloucester Gâte et jeta un coup d'oeil de l'autre côté de la murette.

Certes on ne peut jeter aucun coup d'oeil sur le terrain du droit américain sans le trouver partout.

The king looked very magnificent, to be sure; and that great hall where we feasted on seven hundred delicate foods, and drank fifty royal wines - QUEL COUP D'OEIL!

Among his other works the most important are Cours de morale chrétienne et de littérature religieuse (Paris, 1826) and his Coup d'oeil sur le Congrès d'Ems (1787).

Coups d'Oeil (Sep. 18,1993) Marie Claire von Alvensleben, numero 18, page 17, "Le Musee Mario Bernasconi", Geneve.

Vicomte Terlinden, Coup d'oeil sur l'histoire des lignages de Bruxelles, in, "Présence du passé", tome II, 1949.