Cloots

[ klohts ]

/ kloʊts /

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Jean Bap·tiste du Val-de-Grâce

[zhahn ba-teest dy val duh-grahs], /ʒɑ̃ baˈtist dü val dəˈgrɑs/, Baron de "Anacharsis Clootz", 1755–94, Prussian leader in the French Revolution.

QUIZZES

In effect, this quiz will prove whether or not you have the skills to know the difference between “affect” and “effect.”

Question 1 of 7

The rainy weather could not ________ my elated spirits on my graduation day.

Cloots stepped into the chapel for no purpose, in mere idle discernment of color and contrast.
Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell
"Mah Soung is dead," repeated Cloots, and an echo ran back and forth between the walls with his word.
Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell
Cloots arrived as a confident and more or less truly appreciative observer of all these details.
Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell
Cloots had taken the measure of him months before and once for all, he would have said, in his smoky little village.
Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell

Yet Cloots saw now with transfixing clarity that he did not know him in the least—could never have known him.
Where the Pavement Ends|John Russell