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vent et la pluie contraignent
La vertu dans l'indigence est comme un voyageur, que le vent et la pluie contraignent de s'envelopper de son manteau —Virtue in want is like a traveller who is compelled by the wind and rain to wrap himself up in his cloak.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

vous est le plus cher
Oh! qu'il ne t'arrive jamais de savoir que de pleurer, même sur le tombeau de tout ce qui vous est le plus cher, est un soulagement, un dèlice, auprès du dur besoin de travailler, la mort dans le cœur, pour vivre, pour exister, lorsque la vie a perdu toutes ses charmes!'
— from The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties (Volume 3 of 5) by Fanny Burney

vapor electric light Peter Cooper
1898 Non-whittling lead pencil F. H. Lippincott U.S. 1900 Mercury vapor electric light Peter Cooper Hewitt U.S. 1901 Airship M. Santos-Dumont French.
— from How to Succeed as an Inventor Showing the Wonderful Possibilities in the Field of Invention; the Dangers to Be Avoided; the Inventions Needed; How to Perfect and Develop New Ideas to the Money Making Stage by Goodwin Brooke Smith

vast edifice Louis Philippe created
The temple of luxury was converted into a temple of the arts, and French valor was recorded in immortal colors upon the walls, by French genius." In the vast edifice Louis Philippe created a pictorial record that embraced not only the great battles from the beginning of the monarchy down to his own day, but the chief incidents that distinguished the reigns of Louis XIV, XV and XVI; the victories of the Republic; the campaigns of Napoleon; the reigns of Louis XVIII and Charles X; the Revolution of 1830, and the reign of Louis Philippe.
— from The Story of Versailles by Francis Loring Payne

variés et leçons pour chacune
Besides these he published a Cello school which bears the title: “ Méthode complète de Violoncelle, contenant la théorie de l’instrument, des gammes, leçons progressives, études, airs variés et leçons pour chacune des positions .”
— from The Violoncello and Its History by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski

variés et leçons pour chacune
Méthode complète de Violoncelle, contenant la théorie de l’instrument, des gammes, leçons progressives, études, airs variés, et leçons pour chacune des positions.
— from The Violoncello and Its History by Wilhelm Joseph von Wasielewski

ville est le plus charge
i. f. 111: 'Si nul soit enfraunchi de ses ouvrages dont la ville est le plus charge.'
— from Villainage in England: Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff

Veneurs et Leutiers pour chasser
Méléager, le Filz de ce bon Roy, Voyant ainsi le piteux Désarroy De son Pays et de sa Gent troublée Proposa lors de faire une Assemblée De bons Veneurs et Leutiers pour chasser L'horrible Beste et sa Mort pourchasser.
— from Instigations Together with An Essay on the Chinese Written Character by Ezra Pound

voci e le parole Convenienti
of that unblushing seminary for the misdirection of young ladies, which, occupying the ground now inhabited by all which is proper, rendered the mass of buildings by the water's side, from Charing Cross to the Parliament, one vast—what are we to call it?— "Chi mi darà le voci e le parole Convenienti a sì nobil soggetto?"
— from The Town: Its Memorable Characters and Events by Leigh Hunt


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