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  • noun A Middle English form of hunt.

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Examples

  • There were windows and floors that cried aloud to Heaven to be scrubbed; there were holes in the sheets to make mam'zelle's lying between them _une honte, une vraie honte_.

    In and out of Three Normady Inns Anna Bowman Dodd

  • N'oubliez pas ce vers de Corneille : "Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'échafaud."

    Archive 2008-03-23 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Ouais forcement mais c la honte si j'vous dis c quoi!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • Ou enlever le bandeau a prise avoir honte de -- ne sang pas a nos mains, mais plus mauvais -- plus insidious et abstrait.

    rouflaquette Diary Entry rouflaquette 2008

  • Oui le pinku a 9 ans de Para Dance derriere lui c'te honte!!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • Une interview qui date de novembre, mais que je ne regarde qu'aujourd'hui à ma grande honte.

    2008 March — Climb to the Stars 2008

  • Then their pride heads them back at one turn, their poverty at another, their pedantry at a third, their mauvaise honte at a fourth; and with so many obstacles to make them bolt off the course, it is positively impossible they should win the plate.

    Saint Ronan's Well 2008

  • N'oubliez pas ce vers de Corneille : "Le crime fait la honte et non pas l'échafaud."

    The last letter of Charlotte Corday de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • As a lad he prepares for manhood with a will and this training occupies him throughout youthtide: he is a gentleman in manners without awkwardness, vulgar astonishment or mauvaise-honte.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Une interview qui date de novembre, mais que je ne regarde qu'aujourd'hui à ma grande honte.

    Interviewed About Multilingualism by Andrea Vascellari — Climb to the Stars 2008

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