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Delia Corbett was not in the habit of using what the French call gros mots in the rendering of her own emotions; she took herself, as a rule, rather flippantly, with a dash of contemptuous pity.

The Lamp of Psyche 1895

Delia Corbett was not in the habit of using what the French call gros mots in the rendering of her own emotions; she took herself, as a rule, rather flippantly, with a dash of contemptuous pity.

The Lamp of Psyche 1895

Bien évidemment, les préoccupations de ses concepteurs sont à l'opposé de celles des "gros" concurrents qu'on connaît, en France ou ailleurs: aucune visée éditoriale monopolistique chez eux, puisque c'est le contenu du web (dans l'idéal gratuit) que l'on télécharge.

Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

On one occasion he took a couple of potato bugs in his "gros" beak as he flew to the nearby woodland, probably a tempting morsel for his spouse's breakfast.

Some Spring Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905

I pity still more the curate with a fixed allowance to whom monks, called gros decimateurs [1424] dare offer a salary of forty ducats, to go about during the year, two or three miles from his home, day and night, in sunshine and in rain, in the snow and in the ice, exercising the most trying and most disagreeable functions. "

The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860

Le chiot a subi un gros choc emotionnel suite à l'attaque.

French Word-A-Day: 2009

"Goodness sakes is something to say instead of saying a gros mot*!"

bon sang - French Word-A-Day 2009

I was reading it just as my almost 5 year old angel of a daughter shouted out a gros mot from the kitchen.

bon sang - French Word-A-Day 2009

Le chiot a subi un gros choc emotionnel suite à l'attaque.

subir - French Word-A-Day 2009

"Goodness sakes is something to say instead of saying a gros mot*!"

French Word-A-Day: 2009