Gil Blas
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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Gil Blas, a Spaniard born without social standing, becomes caught up with grifters and is obliged to live by his wits.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 9, 2026
The house next door to ours, once occupied by the writer Alain-René Lesage, who wrote Gil Blas, just sold for 40,000 euros.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 23, 2019
In this life and movement, this human interest, the Satiricon is the distant ancestor of Gil Blas, Roderick Random, and Tom Jones.
From Roman Society from Nero to Marcus Aurelius by Samuel Dill
He read in his newspaper the publishers' declaration that Maurice Hewlett's new creation recalled Don Quixote, Cyrano, d'Artagnan, Falstaff, Bombastes Furioso, Tartarin, Gil Blas.
From Turns about Town by Robert Cortes Holliday
He must have shut his eyes, like Gil Blas, for there was not a man in either army who could ever hit anything he aimed at.
From Willing to Die by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
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