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  • Felicitations, tu es ravissante!!!! all the best!!!! elsa |

    le mariage 2008

  • More applause — it is Mrs. Rawdon Crawley in powder and patches, the most ravissante little Marquise in the world.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • "Elle est une jeune fille fort bien élevée; elle ferme les yeux d'une façon vraiment ravissante."

    Adventures in Toyland What the Marionette Told Molly Edith King Hall

  • In a perfectly audible whisper, he confided to Wilding that "miladi était ravissante! mais ravissante!"

    The Black Moth: A Romance of the XVIII Century 1921

  • "Margarita Josépha," Madame had christened her, for twenty years ago simple American surnames found no favour with the impressario, and "_cette charmante Mme. Josépha_," "_artiste vraiment ravissante_," etc., etc., the critics called her.

    Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty Josephine Dodge Daskam Bacon 1918

  • "Oh, que Madame est jolie ce soir, vraiement ravissante!"

    Bought and Paid For From the Play of George Broadhurst Arthur Hornblow 1903

  • "_Pure et ravissante comme une aube d'avril_," "My dear dream of English loveliness," "the fair flower of my life" and remarks such as these were proof positive.

    The Belovéd Vagabond William John Locke 1896

  • I say that _cette belle demoiselle, votre nièce, est ravissante.

    A Yellow God: an Idol of Africa Henry Rider Haggard 1890

  • The eldest was so neat and dainty, with her pretty English complexion and trim little figure; the tall, dark girl was _spirituelle_ and uncommon; while the third had an air _tres chic_, and would have been quite _ravissante_ if she had been a trifle less pale and

    Sisters Three George de Horne Vaizey 1887

  • On the last day of the operation, each tiny plait is carefully opened by the long hairpin or skewer, and the head is ravissante.

    In the Heart of Africa Samuel White Baker 1857

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