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- Stinking.
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Bon alors 1h30 dans un local puant l'moisi et a cotoyé araignée at autre bebete qui passe leur vie dans les poubelles!!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2004
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Ah moins que cette annee la tout l'monde serai devenu des gros cons racistes imbibés de biere et puant la sueur!!! ...
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2003
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Such was the costume in which La Reveillére-Lepeaux exhibited himself to his astonished countrymen, and having the misfortune to be -- as we are told -- "petit, bossu, et puant," the exhibition obtained no great success.
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Sent to Portsmouth with letters for Mr. de Vaudreuil, in command of our fleet, Closen becomes acquainted with a very curious animal which the people of the region call a musk-cat, but which I believe to be the puant (the stinking one), and a careful description shows that, in any case, the name well fitted the animal.
Rochambeau and the French in America. I. From Unpublished Documents. VIII 1916
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As a French woman on board, with the air of an afflicted porpoise, and with more truth than elegance, expresses it: "Tout devient puant, même l'eau-de-cologne."
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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As a French woman on board, with the air of an afflicted porpoise, and with more truth than elegance, expresses it: "Tout devient puant, même l'eau-de-cologne."
Life in Mexico Frances Calder��n de la Barca 1843
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Arbarcs ligno fatido, Bois puant Guyanenfium; folia alterna mapia; pedunculi mi4dflon terminales, florilus alternis magnis Lilium fpiraruibus, Caraatr cx.
Antonii Laurentii de Jussieu ... Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita : juxta methodum in horto regio Parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV Barrois, Théophile, printer 1789
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Bois puant Bor - bonienfium, Caraaer ex ficco & ex Commerfic, An affinis Pirigara?
Antonii Laurentii de Jussieu ... Genera plantarum secundum ordines naturales disposita : juxta methodum in horto regio Parisiensi exaratam, anno M.DCC.LXXIV Barrois, Théophile, printer 1789
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They danced about half an hour, and then his master told him they must adore the goat who was the Devil _et ce fait et dict, veit que ledict Bouc courba ses deux pieds de deuant et leua son cul en haut, et lors que certaines menues graines grosses comme testes d'espingles, qui se conuertissoient en poudres fort puantes, sentant le soulphre et poudre à canon et chair puant mesleés ensemble seroient tombeés sur plusieurs drappeaux en sept doubles.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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Note 90: Koenig 4, pp. 55 — 56: ‘Fiex! fiex! fiex! fiex! li cuers me part/… Fiex doz, murtri et acoré/T'ont cil gïu, cil puant chien.
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005
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