Crossword-Solution: BOTTES 6 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The General, giving way for the first time to his secret sentiments, exclaimed contemptuously-- “And you say he came in to make you this confidence like this--for nothing--_a propos des bottes_.” Razumov felt danger in the air.

That venerable personage not only gives Izdubar instructions how to regain his health, but tells him, somewhat _a propos des bottes_ (after the manner of venerable personages), the long story of his perilous adventure; and how it befell that he, his wife, and his steersman came to dwell among the blessed gods, without passing through the portals of death like ordinary mortals.

Solidement bâti comme un montagnard, il portait le vaste feutre sur la tête, la haute ceinture à boucle historiée sur le ventre, la veste sans manches sur le torse, la culotte courte et demi-bouffante, engagée dans les hautes bottes de cuir.

Auguste Lantier, reading the news from a journal to his friends Coupeau and Mes-Bottes, announced that the eldest daughter of the Comtesse de Bretigny was to be married to Baron de Valencay, aide-de-camp to His Majesty the Emperor.

Mon ami Jean me la désigna du bout de sa pipe qu'il venait de bourrer: --Voyez, me dit-il, cette fille qui ne mange que du lard et du pain et qui portait, hier, au bout d'une fourche les bottes de paille dont elle a encore des brins dans les cheveux.