"Au fait" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "Au fait," she said, musing, as she played a pretty little hand on the table, and no doubt thinking about mad young Harry Estridge; 'tis not impossible, William, that old folks, and young folks, ...
— The Virginians • William Makepeace Thackeray
... efficacy, prolific, deficient, proficient, artifice, artificer, beneficiary, versification, unification, exemplification, deify, petrify, rectify, amplify, fructify, liquefy, disaffect, refection, comfit, pontiff, ipso facto, de facto, ex post facto, au fait, fait accompli. ...
— The Century Vocabulary Builder • Creever & Bachelor
... Reyes." How could Le Sage, who never had been in Spain, know this fact? Gil Blas thus relates an event at Valencia—"Je m'en approchai pour apprendre pourquoi je voyois la un si grand concours d'hommes et de femmes, et bientot je fus au fait, en lisant ces paroles ecrites en lettres d'or sur une table de marbre noir, qu'il-y avait audessus de la porte, 'La posada de los representantes,' et les comediens marquaient dans leur affiche qu'ils joueraient ce jour-la pour la premiere fois une tragedie ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 • Various
... Euphemio,—you may rely upon me to the uttermost. Are you in trouble? Is it counsel you need, or only money? Fill your pipe, and, while you smoke, confide your cares to me,—put me wise, or, as your French cousins would say,—make me 'au fait.'" ...
— The Money Moon - A Romance • Jeffery Farnol |
