Ses principaux domaines de recherche sont la stylistique linguistique, la linguistique de corpus, la pragmatique et l'analyse du discours.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert
lytiglic (lytelic) deceitful, crafty .
— from A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary For the Use of Students by J. R. Clark (John R. Clark) Hall
The most flourishing state of their wealth and commerce, in the beginning of the xvth century, is agreeably described by the Abbé Dubos, (Hist. de la Ligue de Cambray, tom. ii.
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon
He stepped away from the rifle, and White Fang’s lifted lips descended, covering his teeth.
— from White Fang by Jack London
A consideration which "free spirits" lack : that the same discipline which makes a strong nature still stronger, and enables it to go in for big undertakings, breaks up and withers the mediocre : doubt — la largeur de cœur —experiment—independence.
— from The Will to Power: An Attempted Transvaluation of All Values. Book III and IV by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
A thousand lamentable objects there, In scorn of Nature, Art gave lifeless life: Many a dry drop seem'd a weeping tear, Shed for the slaughter'd husband by the wife: The red blood reek'd, to show the painter's strife; The dying eyes gleam'd forth their ashy lights, Like dying coals burnt out in tedious nights.
— from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare
les oreilliers the blankettes les blanchetz the shetes les linceulz Page 909 the couerlette le couuertoir the sparuer le ciel the sparuer ll. le pauillon the curtyns les courtines the hangyng la tapisserie the carpettes les tapis uelus the quyishens les carriaus all one les coissins the bedde portatyve le lict de camp the bedstede le chalict the borde la table the trestels les tresteaus the forme le banc the chayres les chaieres the stools les escabelles the forte stoole le marce pied the table cloth la nape the napkyns les seruiettes the salt le sel the salt saler la saliere the chafyng dysshe la
— from An Introductorie for to Lerne to Read, To Pronounce, and to Speke French Trewly by Giles Du Wés
French text: "Le lai du Cor, restitution critique," by F. Wulff, Lund, 1888, 8vo, written by Robert Biquet in the twelfth century; only one MS.
— from A Literary History of the English People, from the Origins to the Renaissance by J. J. (Jean Jules) Jusserand
The trade of muslin embroidery once flourished here, and in the pretty little neighbouring town of Comber; but it has so fallen off that now the best hands, plying the needle unceasingly during the long, long day, can earn only three or four shillings a week.
— from The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times by James Godkin
And it is in words almost identical with those of Bibbesworth that the author describes the difference in the meaning of some words according to their gender: La levere deit clore les dentz.
— from The Teaching and Cultivation of the French Language in England during Tudor and Stuart Times With an Introductory Chapter on the Preceding Period by K. Rebillon (Kathleen Rebillon) Lambley
And to this purpose I will tell you, as we go to supper, a brave example set down by Frater Lubinus, Libro de compotationibus mendicantium.
— from Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 by François Rabelais
“Villa Lima, Lago de Como, Sept. 20, 1847.
— from Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I by Charles James Lever
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