For the moment, discounting the uniform which might have hidden a midinette or a duchess, she had nothing but the face and the gestures and the beautifully modulated voice to go upon, and between the accent of the midinette and the duchess-both being equally charming to her English ear-Peggy could not discriminate.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
"The spring will bring victory to France" was an article of faith which comforted the soul of the little midinette who sang on her way to the Rue Lafayette, and the French soldier who found a wild flower growing in his trench.
"The Soul of the War"
Philip Gibbs