sans souci
Americanadjective
Example Sentences
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He threw me one of those sans souci smiles he’d been tossing at me since the beginning of the year.
From "Tradition" by Brendan Kiely
"Quand je serai là," he was wont to say, pointing to where his dogs were buried in the palace park, "je serai sans souci."
From William of Germany by Stanley Shaw
She was so happy and bright, a sans souci maiden whom he lost no time in winning to his own colors, by the magic of a well-stored mind and an eloquent tongue.
From Idle Hour Stories by Eugenia Dunlap Potts
Still in that solitary place—on a path rarely trodden—there is no great danger; and knowing this, they dismount and make their bivouac sans souci.
From The Death Shot A Story Retold by Mayne Reid
"Let us seek, even while we live, to be sans souci, and as evidence that I will strive for this, this house shall be called 'Sans-Souci!'"
From Berlin and Sans-Souci; or Frederick the Great and his friends by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
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