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Examples
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"Non, je ne suis jamais fidèle!" he boasts, and his eyes brighten like a predator having zeroed in on his proie.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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"Non, je ne suis jamais fidèle!" he boasts, and his eyes brighten like a predator having zeroed in on his proie.
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I had been upstairs folding clothes when I heard the excited aboiements* ... which I thought to be coming from the field, where hunting season is underway; of the barking, I remember thinking: "les chiens de chasse ont dû trouver leur proie".
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For Racine's most famous couplet, "Ce n'est plus une ardeur dans mes veines cachée/C'est Vénus toute entière à sa proie attachée," Hughes has the less memorable "No longer a fever in my veins, Venus has fastened on me like a tiger."
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Here, on an ancient flower farm where chatty chickens ( "Queenie" and "Firelighter") are home on the range, a charcoal cat named Cabas* (kah-ba) warms to me via a purr and a proie.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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"Non, je ne suis jamais fidèle!" he boasts, and his eyes brighten like a predator having zeroed in on his proie.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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Here, on an ancient flower farm where chatty chickens ( "Queenie" and "Firelighter") are home on the range, a charcoal cat named Cabas* (kah-ba) warms to me via a purr and a proie.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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Here, on an ancient flower farm where chatty chickens ( "Queenie" and "Firelighter") are home on the range, a charcoal cat named Cabas* (kah-ba) warms to me via a purr and a proie.
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I had been upstairs folding clothes when I heard the excited aboiements*... which I thought to be coming from the field, where hunting season is underway; of the barking, I remember thinking: "les chiens de chasse ont dû trouver leur proie".
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Here, on an ancient flower farm where chatty chickens ("Queenie" and "Firelighter") are home on the range, a charcoal cat named Cabas* (kah-ba) warms to me via a purr and a proie.
French Word-A-Day: 2007
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