Your Tommies are wonderful in their kindness and chivalry-until I met them I had never seen an Englishman in my life-I had imbecile ideas-I thought they would be without manners-un PEU insultants.
"The Rough Road"
William John Locke
By Jove though, it was the rarest piece of impudence I ever heard of; hoaxing a crowned head, quizzing one of the Lord's anointed is un PEU trop fort."
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
An "Emerson number" of "Zion's Herald" strikes me as tant soit PEU of an anomaly, and yet I am told that such a number appeared.
"The Letters of William James, Vol. II"
William James