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Pour se former une juste idee de l'influence qu'exerca cet homme sur les _caracteres_ [choses] et les idees de son temps, il faut se le representer au milieu de l'armee des croisees dans son double role de prophete et de guerrier; le pauvre hermite, vetu _du pauvre_ [de l'humble] habit gris est la plus puissant qieun roi; il est entoure _d'une_ [de la] multitude [avide] une multitude qui ne voit que lui, tandis qui lui, il ne voit que le ciel; ses yeux leves semblent dire, 'Je vois Dieu et les anges, et j'ai perdu de vue la terre!'
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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I wish I could share it with you, but then my fellow villagers might be inclined to tar and feather a certain pauvre type whomistook a certain pauvre pen-pusher for a hooker.
French Word-A-Day: 2010
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I wish I could share it with you, but then my fellow villagers might be inclined to tar and feather a certain pauvre type whomistook a certain pauvre pen-pusher for a hooker.
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The hunter's comrades were so thunderstruck at the unexpected appearance of such a visitor, and his sudden retreat with "pauvre" Louisson -- the man who had been carried off -- that they for some time lost all presence of mind, and, in a state of confusion, were running to and fro, each expecting in his turn to be kidnapped in a similar manner.
The Western World Picturesque Sketches of Nature and Natural History in North and South America William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Best wishes to le pauvre petit, and many healing thoughts are winging in his direction from northern Virginia, where the weather was bright and clear and sunny today.
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Un livre tres sympa (est assez difficile de lire pour moi) et plein de jolies dessins en coleur comme ca. Ahhh, ma pauvre francais!
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Français · Asie du Sud: Le monde est plus pauvre sans MJ
Global Voices in English » South Asia: The World Is Poorer Without MJ 2009
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Ooh ... pauvre Smokey Dokey - as if his e-cone isn't enough!!
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Lovely photo of Braise and le pauvre puppy Smokey, such a dear brave one who is healing and has so much love surrounding him from all over the World!
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I was heartsick to hear of the attack on le pauvre petit!
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