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The request was, of course, refused, for a god who can be touched only by abject supplications has a mentality which is rather too barbarous for our modem minds.
Elle ne fut pas naturellement accueillie. Un Dieu capable d'être seulement fléchi par de basses supplications, possède une mentalité un peu trop barbare pour nos âmes modernes.
Le Bon, Gustave / The Psychology of the Great WarLe Bon, Gustave / Enseignements psychologiques de la guerre européenne
Enseignements psychologiques de la guerre européenne
Le Bon, Gustave
© 1915, by Ernest Flammarion.
The Psychology of the Great War
Le Bon, Gustave
© 1999 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Twenty thousand Galician employees of the post-office, railways, and so forth, belonging to the Austrian administration, are now without positions and in a state of the most abject poverty.
20.000 fonctionnaires des postes, chemins de fer, etc., de l'ancienne administration, tous Galiciens, sont aujourd'hui sans place, dans la plus noire misère.
Le Bon, Gustave / The Psychology of the Great WarLe Bon, Gustave / Enseignements psychologiques de la guerre européenne
Enseignements psychologiques de la guerre européenne
Le Bon, Gustave
© 1915, by Ernest Flammarion.
The Psychology of the Great War
Le Bon, Gustave
© 1999 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Her face, encircled with a handkerchief fastened under her bore an expression of abject stupidity, for drink had transformed it into a sottish mask, with colourless sagging Ups, and bleary blinking eyes.
Son visage, entouré d’un mouchoir attaché sous le menton, avait une expression d’ignoble hébétement; la boisson en avait fait un masque crapuleux, aux lèvres décolorées et pendantes, aux yeux clignotants et rougis.
Zola, Emile / Madeleine FeratZola, Emile / Madeleine Ferat
Madeleine Ferat
Zola, Emile
Madeleine Ferat
Zola, Emile
Beneath those pale eyes, keen as steel, which dived into his own, Morange was seized with abject fear.
Sous ces yeux pâles, qui entraient dans les siens, d’une dureté d’acier, il fut pris d’une véritable peur.
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Zola, Emile
Fruitfulness
Zola, Emile
It makes boys manly and courageous; and the very vices of an abject race tend to strengthen in them the opposite virtues.
Il rend nos garçons fermes, courageux. Les vices mêmes d’une race abjecte tendent à fortifier en eux les vertus contraires.
Beecher Stowe, Harriet / Uncle Tom's CabinBeecher Stowe, Harriet / La case de l'oncle Tom
La case de l'oncle Tom
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Beecher Stowe, Harriet
At last, as always happened when the attack was drawing to a close, she fell into a strange fright, her teeth chattering, while her limbs quivered with abject terror.
Quand la crise toucha à sa fin, elle eut, comme il arrivait toujours, une épouvante singulière, un frisson d’effroi qui faisait claquer ses dents.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
La Fortune des Rougon
Zola, Emile
The Fortune of the Rougons
Zola, Emile
© 2006 BiblioBazaar
He had noticed how his presence reduced the unhappy woman to a state of abject terror, and he profited by this to extract from her whatever little sums she hid away.
Il s’était bien aperçu de quelle force d’anéantissement il terrorisait la triste femme, il en abusait pour tirer d’elle tout ce qu’elle cachait au fond de ses tiroirs.
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Zola, Emile
Fruitfulness
Zola, Emile
When we played for money his winnings gave him the meanest and most abject delight.
Quand nous jouâmes de l’argent, ses gains constants lui causèrent des joies déshonorantes, mesquines.
Balzac, Honore de / The Lily of the ValleyBalzac, Honore de / Le Lys dans la vallee
Le Lys dans la vallee
Balzac, Honore de
The Lily of the Valley
Balzac, Honore de

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