Crossword-Solution: DOUCHE 6 letters, 7 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Such a discovery comes to either a nation or an individual like a douche of cold water on nice, warm conceit, and brings with it a feeling of discouragement, of being unjustly treated, that is painful, for we are very “touchy” in America, and cry out when a foreigner expresses anything but admiration for our ways, yet we are the last to lend ourselves to foreign customs.

You have too great a nature to take up their Liberal nonsense with its pretension to abolish God.” Theological and political disputes acted like a cold douche on Montriveau; he calmed down; he could not return to love when the Duchess stirred up his wrath by suddenly setting him down a thousand miles away from the boudoir, discussing theories of absolute monarchy, which she defended to admiration.

Then a douche of spray caught me and sent me down the companion to my bunk again, where I lay for hours trying to make a plan of campaign.

And immediately, as though in mockery of his scepticism, no further than the second line from the top, his eye was caught by the figure 9,499! Unable to believe his eyes, he hurriedly dropped the paper on his knees without looking to see the number of the ticket, and, just as though some one had given him a douche of cold water, he felt an agreeable chill in the pit of the stomach; tingling and terrible and sweet! “Masha, 9,499 is there!” he said in a hollow voice.

Andrey Hrisanfitch put his hands down swiftly to the seams of his trousers, and pronounced loudly: “Charcot douche, your Excellency!” GUSEV I IT was getting dark; it would soon be night.