polisson

She called me "polisson," which in the mouth of a woman is an encouragement to go still further, -- and declared that I had not improved, I whom she had considered sentimental!

manybooks.net 2009

She is aunt of that polisson of a Castlewood, who never pays his play-debts, unless he is more honourable in his dealings with you than he has been with me.

The Virginians 2006

I am only a scoundrel of the pseudo-aristocratic society, and I am regarded as ‘a charming polisson’.

Bobok 2003

Philippe_, -- paying lawyers for memorials that are never read, -- hoping for letters from the Spanish envoy which never come, and eating your heart up in spite and bitterness -- you look the matter plump in the face like a man, and not like a _polisson_, and turn to account those talents which it has pleased _le bon Dieu_ to give you?

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver Theodore Canot

Blanquette laughingly called me a "_petit polisson_" and said that I made soft eyes at them.

The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896

His much too ambitiously titled _Mélanges Littéraires_ turn to stories, though stories touched with the _polisson_ brush.

A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 George Saintsbury 1889

"Ah, ce polisson de Monsieur Gogo ... attendez un peu!" and Père François returns the compliment -- straight through me again, as it seems; and I do not even feel it!

Peter Ibbetson George Du Maurier 1865

The polisson picked up his pocket-handkerchief and went -- quite quietly, with simple manly grace; and that's the first I ever saw of

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

He appears to have been a polisson by his own tale told to the Caliph and this alone would secure the contempt of a high-bred and high-spirited girl.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

I believe you're little better than a polisson, Colonel Altamont, '-- that was the phrase he used -- Altamont said with a grin -- and I got plenty more of this language from the two fellows, and was in the thick of the row with them, when another of our party came in.

The History of Pendennis William Makepeace Thackeray 1837