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
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 Reid, Mayne
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 Potts, Eugenia Dunlap
What a contrast between the sans souci gait of persons at bathing places and the resorts of pilgrims and the precipitate haste in commercial centres!268.Meyendorff,
From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)
Si l’homme n’a rien au-dessus de la bête, que ne coule-t-il ses jours comme elle, sans souci, sans inquiétude, sans dégout, sans tristesse, dans la félicité des sens et de la chair?”
From She and I, Volume 2 A Love Story. A Life History. by Hutcheson, John C. (John Conroy)
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