Gascons [noun]

Their jurisdictions overlapped and the Gascon would play second fiddle to no one save to his great brother-in-law.

He was Gascon to the backbone, and his tongue too often betrayed his most secret and his most transient thoughts.

But while everything seemed so favourable the crafty Gascon from the first foresaw the dangers which beset his path.

But the outbreak of the Revolution opened a wider field to the audacious young Gascon.

Their eyes fixed, their mouths agape, their hands clasped, they listened with increasing avidity to the Gascon adventurer.

Tell a Gascon any extraordinary fact, he instantly caps it—tells you something more extraordinary of the same kind.

Meanwhile, every day brought nearer the arrival of the Spanish and Gascon auxiliaries whom they were expecting.

At last the Parisian defences were completed, and the Spanish and Gascon troops, to the number of seven thousand men, arrived.

The warrior presents a curious combination of the national simplicity with the spirit of the ancient Gascon.

Under the royal banners rode many a bold Gascon baron and many a hot-blooded islander.