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Paul Féval
19e siècle
"Tous ces idiomes parlaient de mort, et un: «Let us knock down the damned rascal!» (Assommons le maudit drôle!)"
Charles Nodier
19e siècle
"Get down, Bichonne!""
Hippolyte Taine
19e siècle
"I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men."
Hippolyte Taine
19e siècle
"The big round drops course one another down The furrows of his cheeks."
Jules Verne
19e siècle
"Enfin, après avoir desservi les comtés d'Armagh et de Down, le railway franchit la frontière de l'Antrim."
Hippolyte Taine
19e siècle
"The females had long lank hair on their head but none on their faces, nor any thing more than a sort of down on the rest of their bodies, except about the anus and pudenda."
Victor Hugo
19e siècle
"Gravity symbolizes the forces which keep man down."
Jacques-Émile Blanche
19e siècle
"Je vous assure, croyez-moi, ma situation présente ne peut se prolonger, ou je meurs... I must settle down."
Jules Verne
19e siècle
"Littéralement, en anglais: thorough knoch me down."
Henri Emile Chevalier
19e siècle
"The bright leafy bark of the Betula tree A flexible sheathing provides; And the fir's thready roots drew the parts to agree And bound down its high-swelling sides."
John Ruskin
19e siècle
"Far different was the Earth When first the flood came down, than at its second birth."
Victor Hugo
19e siècle
"It affected Italy, even down to Alfieri, who at the end of the last century was hampered by this spirit of obedience to Racine."
Hippolyte Taine
19e siècle
"Have you felt the wool of the beaver, Or swan's down ever?"
Émile Souvestre
19e siècle
"It was put down by General Hoche in 1796 after a bloody struggle of three years."
Hippolyte Taine
19e siècle
"Now with a clattering of hoofs and striking out of fiery sparks, across the old stone bridge, and down again into the shadowy road, and through the open gate, and far away, away, into the world."
Alphonse Daudet
19e siècle
"His frequent days of truancy he spent in these idle rambles, or in drifting down the river."
Jules Verne
19e siècle
"Littéralement, en anglais: thorough knock me down.]"
Edmond About
19e siècle
"The "blessed brook" referred to is the gutter which, until modern times, ran down the middle of the street.]"
Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon
18e siècle
"At the point of laying down his pen Saint-Simon asks indulgence for his style in favour of the truth and exactitude which are “the law and the soul” of his memoirs."
Charles Perrault
17e siècle
"He went out to cut down a tree near the shore, meaning to fashion it for his purpose, when a spirit, who dwelt in the timber, cried, 'Spare this tree.'"