Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
pardy .
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Examples
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Ma critique critique vise plutôt le monde du social media où l'on met sur un piédestal le commentaire à tout prix, toujours plus de commentaire, de la conversation, pardi! ce qui finit par nous donner des trucs comme FriendFeed outil très bien par ailleurs conçu de façon à encourager le commentaire sans lecture.
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Va aussi falloir que je m'y mette en français, pardi!
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Capitouls (Chief Magistrate in Toulouse, &c. &c. &c.) at least — pardi! we shall all wear swords — — And so, one would swear, (that is, by candle-light, — but there is no depending upon it,) they continued to do, to this day.
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Capitouls (Chief Magistrate in Toulouse, &c. &c. &c.) at least — pardi! we shall all wear swords — — And so, one would swear, (that is, by candle-light, — but there is no depending upon it,) they continued to do, to this day.
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Yes, pardi! while Panpan lay stretched upon the grass a laughing spectator of the game; and which was brought to an untimely conclusion by my breaking my head against the branch of a tree.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie
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These things only require a little judgment; but some men, pardi! always are creeping when they should fly, and always are scampering when they should saunter; and then they wonder when they make fiasco!
Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873
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In matters of this kind, each man should look to his own skin, _pardi!
Tartarin On The Alps Alphonse Daudet 1868
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Tobacco and onions are in his great coarse laugh, which choke me, pardi; and I don't think much better of the other fellow -- the Scots 'gallipot purveyor -- Peregrine Clinker, Humphrey
Roundabout Papers William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Generals and of their principal deeds of arms -- and not their deeds of arms alone, pardi, but their coats of arms too.
The Second Funeral of Napoleon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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‘I thought we had in Paris slackened the matrimonial noose tolerably; mais, pardi, ces Anglois veulent toujours être nos maitres.’
sarra commented on the word pardi
note to self
April 14, 2009