A large mortar with a very short range

NEWS 29: The plank is very short!

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 68: A FASHIONABLE SUIT: －Sir, I swear that this suit is very becoming!... －Yes it's becoming and economical... with a similar [short] jacket you can perfectly well open the door when [the bell], is rung, and pass yourself off as your own man-servant!..

NEWS 31: － What a selfish man!... sleeping when at this very moment the Autocrat raises soldiers!..

NEWS 308: A pleasure party in the countryside during the pleasant month of May. － Take heart..., Adélaïde, we've not got more than a short league to go!..

ﾐ Sir will be very comfortable here: a suberb view... just opposite the spot where they think the enemy will place its first batteries

A sweet girl with a straw hat and spare straw sandals, picking wild flowers on the roadside

NEWS 171: Messrs Victor Hugo and Emile Garardin seeking to elevate Prince Louis on a shield, that's not very stable!

NEWS 35: AN AERIAL [SHORT] EXCURSION TRAIN. The aeronaut. － Well! gentlemen, what do you say to this spectacle? A citizen. － I say that I'm very angry at having paid three hundred francs for my place!..

Pro-divorce Women 5: A toast to the emancipation of women, by women already emancipated with a vengeance

ROBERT MACAIRE. 2nd Series 6: (Robert) So! my dear director, how goes your business? (Bertrand) Oh, vefry well, very well!! I'm very satisfied... only we don't have a sou, we can't continue. －The deuce!! －But a capitalist should deposit 200000 francs with us, the document's going to be signed this evening or tomorrow... I'm very impatient, I've got the greatest need for a pair of boots

It is always with the deepest sadness..

It is always with the deepest sadness..

It is always with the deepest sadness..

Proverbs and Maxims 12: There's a sucker! personally, I agree with the proverb: “What's good to take is good to keep.”

EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT 53: AT A 32-SOUS-RESTAURANT. －Waiter, a chicken with cress?... －Sir, we've no chicken left... but if you like, I'll get you a large portion of cress!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 84: RECEPTION OF A FREE-MASON: We know from a reliable source that you are here among us only to unveil our secrets to outsiders... your guilty schemes will be frustrated... I have just received order to plunge this dagger into your breast!..

Strangers in Paris 6: A stir at the Jardin des Plantes: －Help,wife... help... I'm being devoured!... －Don't be frightened... intimidate him with your stare!... but why do you have to get face to face with an elephant!..

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 19: A VANITY SATISFIED: －Oh! at last!... the Monitor has recorded my “very good”... naming me in full... about time, too... at least my constituents will no longer say I don't speak in the Chamber!..

NEWS 203: Casmajou－ I think that the time has come to claim as the price for my devotion the reward of a frock-coat! Ratapoil－ Well, now, do you think my boots leave nothing to be desired in connection with the sole! (Together)(in chorus)－ Oh, the ingratitude of Governments!

NEWS 24: A RECONCILIATION (A scene from high comedy): －I embrace you, but still hold a grudge against you! － I press you to my heart, but you’ll pay for it!

NEWS 24: A RECONCILIATION (A scene from high comedy): －I embrace you, but still hold a grudge against you! － I press you to my heart, but you’ll pay for it!

Caricaturana 48: A candidate: Whom do you need?... A man of probity, conscientious, a serious man, a manufacturer, a man who doesn't need the government in order to become rich, a man familiar with the law, who knows it well, from experience, from long experience... A long experience of the law... You couldn't make a better choice, take my... take my honourable friend

Parisian Freebooters 12: The Crocodile: This has to do with a variety of species of Crocodile, which was known to the ancients under the name of Tantalus and which a Gymnasium naturalist of our time has called the Gastronome without money. This voracious whale-like creature is most commonly found in the localities of Merchants of Eatables. His teeth are pointed and very long from lack of exercise, since he uses only his eyes to devour. When he has had the perseverance to remain for a whole day static in front of his prey he sometimes ends up by having the luck to catch... a crick in the neck. He feeds himself only on desires and vain hopes, he is also remarkably thin. Very different from other fish of his species that swim in open water, this type of Crocodile is always in the dry

LIFE'S HAPPY DAYS 11: A DINNER AT VÉRY’S: So! I've just dined as a bachelor!... yes! but my wife entrusted me with a louis and I've got left... sixty centimes!