Je suis né dans le Nord Cotentin de vieille souche paysanne. From Wordnik.com. [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference
Curls of an improbable wheat blond clustered beneath a straw bonnet, à la paysanne. From Wordnik.com. [The Dressmaker] Reference
Ensemble, ils ont mené la tradition paysanne à un nouveau niveau de sophistication. From Wordnik.com. [Crossover Dreams: Fifteen minutes of undeserved fame in Port-au-Prince] Reference
Quel avertissement la dame lui avait-elle donné -- Est-ce que la paysanne est parvenue à s'expliquer cette manie de Madame?. From Wordnik.com. [French Conversation and Composition] Reference
Send a little paysanne to the King with a wild story like hers!. From Wordnik.com. [A Heroine of France] Reference
We read that – To-day she was a paysanne with her straw hat tied at the back of her head. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Mary Robinson] Reference
And a 1942 recipe for beans à la paysanne, which expected a single garlic clove to impart rustic. From Wordnik.com. [Diner's Journal] Reference
La Corriveau looked proudly up as she said this, for she felt herself to be anything but a humble paysanne. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
This gentleman was just escaped from Sedan in the disguise of a paysan, and assisted by a paysanne, belonging to his family. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
More specifically, she was guilty of contours fortement prononces, -- corsage de paysanne, -- quelque chose de sauvage, etc., etc. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian Angel] Reference
Il est amoureux d'une jeune paysanne aussi pauvre que lui, je viens d'acheter pour eux un petit bien qui m'a coute huit cent francs. From Wordnik.com. [Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France] Reference
References: les restes (m) = scraps, leftovers; l'angoisse (f) = anxiety; la camionnette (f) = pick-up truck; le paysan (la paysanne) = farmer, peasant; le seau (m) = bucket, pail. From Wordnik.com. [donné - French Word-A-Day] Reference
References: les restes (m) = scraps, leftovers ; l'angoisse (f) = anxiety; la camionnette (f) = pick-up truck; le paysan (la paysanne) = farmer, peasant; le seau (m) = bucket, pail. From Wordnik.com. [French Word-A-Day:] Reference
In the disguise of a paysanne she reached Dover; there she was seized with a fever, brought on by sorrow, agitation, and fatigue; the contents of her purse were nearly exhausted, when she took the lodgings where I was directed by. From Wordnik.com. [Lovers and Friends; or, Modern Attachments] Reference
A paysanne, one of a cargo of unmarried women sent out to the colony on matrimonial venture, as the custom then was, to furnish wives for the colonists. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Dog] Reference
"France is drawn as an ugly old paysanne with fat ankles and abominable clothes - but who is this divine being, so beautiful and elegant of shape in her fine drapery?. From Wordnik.com. [Watershed] Reference
“The dear object of girlish ambition was the same to both; but the simplicity of the little paysanne showed itself in the utter absence of any wish to conceal her anxiety upon the subject. From Wordnik.com. [What I Remember]
Aphrodite, who could give or receive such a glance, shall ever be sought in marriage by me: I would rather wed a paysanne in a short petticoat and high cap — and be sure that she was honest.”. From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
No woman, were she as beautiful as Aphrodite, who could give or receive such a glance, shall ever be sought in marriage by me: I would rather wed a paysanne in a short petticoat and high cap -- and be sure that she was honest. ". From Wordnik.com. [Villette] Reference
Petits pois à la paysanne!. From Wordnik.com. [At Home with the Jardines] Reference
Jaccourus; mais déjà ma jeune paysanne. From Wordnik.com. [Le Pont Kerlô] Reference
Quelle place la paysanne avait-elle trouvée?. From Wordnik.com. [French Conversation and Composition] Reference
Here however the paysanne happened to be right. From Wordnik.com. [A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One] Reference
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