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Captain Aresby also advanced, to tell her he was quite abattu by having so long lost sight of her, to hope she would make a renounce of mortifying the world by discarding it, and to protest he had waited for his carriage till he was actually upon the point of being
Cecilia 2008
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Malgre tout, apres avoir raccroché je tremblais de partout, j'avais pu de jambes et mes yeux se sont mis a piker et la fatigue s'est alors abattu sur moi!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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When a _curée_ takes place at the spot where the animal is actually killed the French sporting term for the ceremony is "_forcé et abattu_."
Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus
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Il ne parait pas trop abattu; nous causons beaucoup et je tache de l'egayer autant que sa position le permet.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896
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She says, “Cela sent l'Americain qui apres avoir abattu les forets a coup de hache, croit qu'on doit de meme conquerir le monde intellectuel”!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Carlyle, Thomas 1883
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Il ne paraît pas trop abattu; nous causons beaucoup et je tâche de l'égayer autant que sa position le permet.
Philip Gilbert Hamerton An Autobiography, 1834-1858, and a Memoir by His Wife, 1858-1894 Eug��nie Hamerton 1864
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She says, "Cela sent l'Americain qui apres avoir abattu les forets a coup de hache, croit qu'on doit de meme conquerir le monde intellectuel"!
The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I Thomas Carlyle 1838
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_ "Sous ce tombeau git LE SAGE, abattu Par le ciseau de la Parque importune; S'il ne fut pas ami de la fortune, Il fut toujours ami de la vertu."
Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3) Isaac Disraeli 1807
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Captain Aresby also advanced, to tell her he was quite _abattu_ by having so long lost sight of her, to hope she _would make a renounce_ of mortifying the world by discarding it, and to protest he had waited for his carriage till he was actually upon the point of being [_accable_.]
Cecilia; Or, Memoirs of an Heiress — Volume 1 Fanny Burney 1796
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Mondial 2010, Argentine - Maradona: "Je suis abattu"
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