fatras

The first minister, Cardinal Fleury, responded that “Le roi avait deja assez de fatras sans encore en augmenter le nombre”—The king already has enough jumble without adding to it further.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

The first minister, Cardinal Fleury, responded that “Le roi avait deja assez de fatras sans encore en augmenter le nombre”—The king already has enough jumble without adding to it further.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

The first minister, Cardinal Fleury, responded that “Le roi avait deja assez de fatras sans encore en augmenter le nombre”—The king already has enough jumble without adding to it further.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

The first minister, Cardinal Fleury, responded that “Le roi avait deja assez de fatras sans encore en augmenter le nombre”—The king already has enough jumble without adding to it further.

The Dragon’s Trail Joanna Pitman 2006

But with few exceptions _they are all Modernist_; they have thrown overboard the whole _fatras_ of legend and tradition.

The Case of Richard Meynell Humphry Ward 1885

Why in this savage fatras about Cronos swallowing his children, about blood-drops becoming bees (Mr. Max Muller says 'Melian nymphs'), and bees being stars, and all the rest of a prehistoric Marchen worked over again and again by the later fancy of

Modern Mythology Andrew Lang 1878

Ignace, du pseudo-Dionys, et de l'immense fatras d'oeuvres anonymes ou pseudonymes qui grossissait souvent du tiers ou de la moitie l'heritage litteraire des auteurs les plus considerables.

Lectures on Modern history John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

Clémentines, du faux Ignace, du pseudo-Dionys, et de l'immense fatras d'œuvres anonymes ou pseudonymes qui grossissait souvent du tiers ou de la moitié l'héritage littéraire des auteurs les plus considérables. —

A Lecture on the Study of History John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton 1868

We shall consent to sweep away all the _fatras_ and paraphernalia of the work, and to see in the heroine a real woman enough -- loving, not unworthy of being loved, unfortunate, and very undeserving of her ill fortune.

Corinne, Volume 1 (of 2) Or Italy R. S. [Illustrator] Greig 1791

Photos très inventives, espiègles … Ca alège l'art contemporain de tout ce fatras de signifiant et de signifié, d'arguments prise de tête.

Lightly Toasted 2010