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  • Je suis alors venu ici a cette heure presente pour vous ennuyer avec ma vie merdique.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • Cette politique va offenser mortellement une moitié des lecteurs, et ennuyer l'autre qui l'a trouvée bien autrement spéciale et énergique dans le journal du matin. '

    The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell James Russell Lowell 1855

  • - F. - V. _, no one could obtain invitations to her parties whose _ecusson_ did not bear the quartering of some old family, and thus these entertainments were accused of resembling the tournaments of ancient times, to which the guests were led, not from any prospect of amusement, but merely to prove their right to _ennuyer_ themselves _en bonne compagnie_.

    Perley's Reminiscences, v. 1-2 of Sixty Years in the National Metropolis Benjamin Perley Poore 1853

  • I must try the hartshorn of your company; and a session of Parliament would suit me well, -- any thing to cure me of conjugating the accursed verb '_ennuyer_.'

    Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals Thomas Moore 1815

  • I must try the hartshorn of your company; and a session of Parliament would suit me well, -- any thing to cure me of conjugating the accursed verb "_ennuyer_."

    The Works of Lord Byron: Letters and Journals. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • Qui: non-blogueurs si vous avez déjà un blog, vous allez vous ennuyer ferme, pas de prérequis technique autre qu’être capable d’aller vérifier son e-mail via le web.

    Cours d’initiation aux blogs le 26 février — Climb to the Stars 2008

  • "Chère grand'mère," disait le très pratique personnage, "je suis certain que vous apprendrez avec plaisir que je n'ai pas besoin de vous ennuyer pour de l'argent en ce moment, car j'ai vendu votre dernière lettre pour

    Collections and Recollections George William Erskine Russell 1886

  • I must try the hartshorn of your company; and a session of Parliament would suit me well, any thing to cure me of conjugating the accursed verb _ennuyer_. "

    Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English Teresa Guiccioli 1836

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  • To inflict with boredom; to bore.

    December 16, 2008