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“That is evident,” exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible at that word fillette, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by the granduncle and the grandnephew.
Les Miserables 2008
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"That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible at that word fillette, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by the granduncle and the grandnephew.
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"That is evident," exclaimed his aunt, who thought she heard M. Gillenormand speaking, and who felt her conviction become irresistible at that word fillette, accentuated in almost the very same fashion by the granduncle and the grandnephew.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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Petit Larousse (French) definition: fifille = fille, fillette (girl, little girl)
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Petit Larousse (French) definition: fifille = fille, fillette (girl, little girl)
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Petit Larousse (French) definition: fifille = fille, fillette (girl, little girl)
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Petit Larousse (French) definition: fifille = fille, fillette (girl, little girl)
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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So, when his former colleague, a chamberlain and a friend of the Turins, met him at a court ball and tried to rouse his pity for Turin and the girl Turchaninova, he shrugged his shoulders, stretching the red ribbon on his white waistcoat, and said: "Je ne demanderais pas mieux que de relacher cette pauvre fillette, mais vous savez le devoir."
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Where did a _fillette_, unformed, inexperienced, win the secret of so much eloquence -- only from the natural dreams of a girl's heart as to 'the lovers waiting in the hidden years?'
Robert Elsmere Humphry Ward 1885
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So, when his former colleague, a chamberlain and a friend of the Turins, met him at a court ball and tried to rouse his pity for Turin and the girl Turchaninova, he shrugged his shoulders, stretching the red ribbon on his white waistcoat, and said: "Je ne demanderais pas mieux que de relacher cette pauvre fillette, mais vous savez le devoir."
The Forged Coupon Leo Tolstoy 1869
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