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  • “Ah! pardieu, this is too much!” exclaimed the old man.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • The girl said monsieur knew very well that she did not desire better than to come out with baby; that it was better than staying at home, pardieu; and, the clock striking at this moment, she rose up with her child, crying out that it was time to return or madame would scold.

    The Newcomes 2006

  • But the apothecary, who perhaps had more penetration or less partiality than his wife and daughter, differed from them in their sentiments of the matter, and expressed himself to me in the shop in this manner: “Ah mon pauvre Roderique! you have more of de veracite dan of de prudence — bot mine vife and dater be diablement sage, and Monsieur le Capitaine un fanfaron, pardieu!”

    The Adventures of Roderick Random 2004

  • (_The Captives_, Prologue, v. 22) correctly enough: 'The Gods, perdye (_pardieu_), doe reckon and racket us men as their tennis balls.'

    Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

  • Et moi, ce n'est pas là, pardieu, ce qui m'enchante!

    The Tales of Hoffmann Les contes d'Hoffmann Jacques Offenbach

  • Inspector, that not a rat -- _pardieu_ not a little mouse -- is allowed to slip out of our red circle to-day.

    The Golden Scorpion Sax Rohmer 1921

  • Gaston Max is in London -- that Gaston Max has any business in hand likely to bring him to London -- pardieu, what danger did I incur?

    The Yellow Claw Sax Rohmer 1921

  • "Dr. Cumberly," said Max, "in a case like the present -- apart from the fact that the happiness -- pardieu! the life -- of one of your own friends is involved ... should you count it a breach of professional etiquette to divulge the name of that patient?"

    The Yellow Claw Sax Rohmer 1921

  • "I know that roll, _pardieu_!" he muttered, and in a florid fashion declaimed, "Fol de rol de row," and laughed alcoholically.

    The Highwayman 1919

  • "I am flattered by your admiration, _pardieu_," says the Pretender, with

    The Highwayman 1919

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