He was a man with a bossy brow, the large, massive jaw of an obstinate believer and pale eyes bespeaking an ingenuous soul.

Il avait un front bossué, une large et solide mâchoire de croyant têtu, et ses pâles yeux clairs disaient l’enfantine ingénuité de son âme.

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The Three Cities - Rome

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Here and there the soil was bossy with mounds.

Des renflements bossuaient la terre, de place en place.

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Then Abbe Mouret beheld the rude plants of the plateau, the dreadful-looking growths that had become hard as iron amidst the arid rocks, that were knotted like snakes and bossy with muscles, set themselves to work.

Alors, l'abbé Mouret vit les plantes rudes du plateau se mettre à l'oeuvre, ces terribles plantes durcies dans la sécheresse des rocs, noueuses comme des serpents, d'un bois dur, bossué de muscles.

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