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The latter thereupon noticed that she was wearing an eccentric ornament which he had never seen before.
Alors, il lui vit un bijou original qu'il ne lui connaissait pas.
Zola, Emile / His ExcellencyZola, Emile / Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Zola, Emile
His Excellency
Zola, Emile
He explained how he and other children had gathered shards of glass from broken Coke bottles and cracked Mason jars and brought them to the eccentric Simon Rodia down the street.
Il m'expliqua comment, avec d'autres enfants, il avait collecté des éclats de bouteilles de Coca et de brocs cassés pour les apporter à l'excentrique Simon Rodia, en bas de la rue.
Mingus, Sue / Tonight at noonMingus, Sue / Pour l'amour de Mingus
Pour l'amour de Mingus
Mingus, Sue
© 2003 Editions du Layeur
Tonight at noon
Mingus, Sue
© 2002 by Sue Graham Mingus
Gowned in fire-hued satin (red shot with yellow), looking very eccentric with her curly hair and thin boyish figure, she laughed and talked of an accident by which her carriage had almost been cut in halves.
En toilette de satin feu, extravagante, avec sa tête bouclée, sa maigreur de gamin, elle riait, racontait un accident, qui avait failli couper en deux sa voiture.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile
As we see, Bemhardi is not one of those detached and eccentric individuals whom one meets in every country and whose words find no echo anywhere.
Bernhardi n'est donc nullement un isolé, un de ces esprits excentriques comme il s'en rencontre partout et dont la voix reste sans écho.
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
She must leave all eccentric behaviour to IMadame de Combelot, he told her.
Il fallait laisser à Mme de Combelot les allures excentriques.
Zola, Emile / His ExcellencyZola, Emile / Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Zola, Emile
His Excellency
Zola, Emile
My position at Clochegourde, my future life, depended on this one eccentric will.
Mon maintien à Clochegourde, l’avenir de ma vie, dépendaient de cette volonté fantasque.
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
But ten minutes ago, just as I arrived, I caught sight of that eccentric fellow, the Commander, and had a talk with him over yonder.
Il y a dix minutes, imaginez-vous, en arrivant ici je causais là-bas avec le Commandeur, vous savez cet original.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities Trilogy - Lourdes
Zola, Emile
Plassans did not know that this eccentric character, this gentleman who smelt of death was well-known and highly-esteemed in the world of science.
Plassans ignorait absolument que cet original, ce monsieur qui sentait le mort, fût un homme très connu et très écouté du monde savant.
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
Another who was noticed in the solemn, interminable procession was the bride's eccentric brother Hyacinthe, whose dress coat was of a cut never previously seen, with its tails broadly and symmetrically pleated.
Et il y avait encore dans le cortège, interminable et solennel, le frère de la mariée, Hyacinthe, dont on remarqua particulièrement l’habit, de forme inconnue, les pans plissés à gros plis symétriques.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile
And the beau monde rushed to see them at the houses of the bolder lady-entertainers, the eccentric and foreign ones like the Princess, who in order to draw society recoiled from no "attraction."
Et le beau monde se ruait chez les maîtresses de maison hardies, les excentriques, les étrangères, telles que la princesse, qui ne reculaient devant aucune attraction.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile

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eccentric

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