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démuni celui dont les
Et le premier acte d'affirmation du plus démuni, celui dont les papiers ne sont jamais en règle, c'est d'abord de tagger son nom sur les affiches signées "© Grande Marque".
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

diverses créances de la
Cy devise des diverses créances de la gent Bretaingne la Grant et de ce qu'en cuidoit Messires Marcs.
— from The Travels of Marco Polo — Volume 1 by Rustichello of Pisa

de camino durante la
20 Después de media hora de camino, durante la cual el Sr. D. José no se mostró muy comunicativo, ni el Sr. Licurgo tampoco, apareció a los ojos de entrambos apiñado y viejo caserío asentado en una loma, y del cual se destacaban algunas negras torres y la ruinosa fábrica de un 25 despedazado castillo en lo más alto.
— from Doña Perfecta by Benito Pérez Galdós

de consultation de l
De même, on peut glaner des statistiques détaillées sur l'indice de consultation de l'information ou des annonces, ce qui permettra à la publication de s'adapter et de s'interroger sur ses objectifs.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

diaper cloth diaper Luvs
[underpants for babies] diaper, nappy[obs3][Brit]; disposable diaper, cloth diaper; Luvs[brand names for diapers], Huggies.
— from Roget's Thesaurus by Peter Mark Roget

drama can do little
The drama can do little to delight the senses: all the apparent instances to the contrary are instances of the personal fascination of the performers.
— from Mrs. Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw

de communautés dont les
Pour les livres en particulier, il faut les proposer aux différents sites thématiques ou de communautés, dont les centres d'intérêt correspondent à leur sujet (sites de fans d'histoire, de management, de SF…).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

de clarté de logique
Ce qui est déjà une difficulté de lecture dans le texte italien, devient un obstacle très sérieux quand on a à traduire ces interminables phrases en français moderne, prototype de précision, de clarté, de logique grammaticale....
— from Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Cassius Dio Cocceianus

de cil de la
Quelle que soit la qualité des intervenants, un charnier à 10.000 morts dont on connaît les responsables (quand ils sont avérés), est sur le même pied que le dernier battement de cil de la starlette du mois (du jour, de la semaine, pas du siècle et encore moins du millénaire).
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

droit criminel de l
89 Du Boys , Histoire du droit criminel de l’Espagne , p. 237.
— from The Origin and Development of the Moral Ideas by Edward Westermarck

de ces divisions la
Vous placerez, près de ces divisions, la division de cavalerie de la garde impériale, commandée par le général Lefebvre Desnoëttes, ainsi que le 1er régiment de hussards, qui a été détaché hier vers Gosselies.
— from The Campaign of Waterloo: A Military History Third Edition by John Codman Ropes

directions covering details large
Each man must learn how to give up his own particular way of doing things, adapt his methods to the many new standards, and grow accustomed to receiving and obeying directions covering details, large and small, which in the past have been left to his individual judgment.
— from Shop Management by Frederick Winslow Taylor

des créateurs de la
[613] ‘L'un des créateurs de la physique expérimentale, l'illustre Robert Boyle, avait aussi reconnu, dès le milieu du dix-septième siècle, une grande partie des faits qui servent aujourd'hui de base à cette chimie nouvelle.’
— from History of Civilization in England, Vol. 1 of 3 by Henry Thomas Buckle

de Conti de Lambesc
From the 16th to the 18th, twenty personages of high rank, among others most of those on whose heads a price is set by the Palais-Royal, leave France: The Count d'Artois, Marshal de Broglie, the Princes de Condé, de Conti, de Lambesc, de Vaudemont, the Countess de Polignac, and the Duchesses de Polignac and de Guiche.—The day following the two murders, M. de Crosne, M. Doumer, M. Sureau, the most zealous and most valuable members of the committee on subsistence, all those appointed to make purchases and to take care of the storehouses, conceal themselves or fly.
— from The French Revolution - Volume 1 by Hippolyte Taine

des chaussons de lisière
Tresser des chaussons de lisière (familiar), to be in prison .
— from Argot and Slang A New French and English Dictionary of the Cant Words, Quaint Expressions, Slang Terms and Flash Phrases Used in the High and Low Life of Old and New Paris by Albert Barrère

death came down like
and night and death came down like a crushing wave.
— from Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories by Ralph Adams Cram

des cathédrales de Lyon
Cie, 1911); ibid ., Les incrustations décoratives des cathédrales de Lyon et de Vienne (Lyon, 1905); H. Havard, éd., La France artistique et monumentale , vol.
— from How France Built Her Cathedrals: A Study in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries by Elizabeth Boyle O'Reilly

dal ciel Dea l
[Pg 74] Julia Gonzaga, che dovunque il piede volge e dovunque i sereni occhi gira, non pur ogn' altra di beltà le cede, ma, come scesa dal ciel Dea, l'ammira.
— from Ariosto, Shakespeare and Corneille by Benedetto Croce

D Carpenter Dr Lyon
The paper of October 21st speaks of a picnic party having chartered the boat and gone up the river, and among the names of those well and favorably known to most of you, at least by name, I shall mention a few: George Greene, Dr. S. D. Carpenter, Dr. Lyon, J. F. Ely, J. S. Cook, Rev. Durley and ladies.
— from History of Linn County Iowa From Its Earliest Settlement to the Present Time [1911] by Luther Albertus Brewer


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