"It is perfectly outrageous, – it is horrid, Augustine! It will certainly bring down vengeance upon you."

–  Mais c’est infâme! – c’est odieux, Augustin! cela crie vengeance contre vous!

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So I must lie up a day somewhere, for I was too outrageous a figure to be seen in the sunlight.

Il me fallait donc passer la journée quelque part, car je ne pouvais, mis comme je l'étais, me montrer au grand jour.

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Thirty-Nine Steps

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The outrageous treatment of poor Tom had roused her still more; and she had followed Legree to the house, with no particular intention, but to upbraid him for his brutality.

L’indigne traitement infligé au pauvre Tom l’avait encore exaspérée, et elle n’avait suivi Legris qu’afin de lui reprocher sa brutalité.

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La case de l'oncle Tom

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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"Shameful! monstrous! outrageous!" she said to herself, as she was crossing the parlor.

«C’est odieux, barbare, infâme!» se disait-elle en traversant le salon.

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La case de l'oncle Tom

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Is it not outrageous that common sense should receive such a smack after so many centuries of science, that Rome should claim the right of triumphing in this insolent fashion, on our loftiest height in the full sunlight?

N’est-ce point inacceptable, après des siècles de science, ce soufflet au simple bon sens, cet insolent besoin de triomphe, sur la hauteur, en pleine lumière ?

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Les Trois Villes - Paris

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The Three Cities - Paris

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Brother Archangias's outrageous violence and La Teuse's loquacious tyranny were like castigation with thongs, which it often rejoiced him to find lashing his shoulders.

La violence de Frère Archangias, la tyrannie bavarde de la Teuse, étaient comme des coups de lanières, dont il goûtait souvent le cinglement sur ses épaules.

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La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret

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Abbe Mouret's Transgression

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" Well, what of it ? exclaimed Valentine, on the point of ordering Celeste to leave the room, for it seemed to her quite outrageous to be disturbed in this manner.

À ces mots, Valentine, qui allait congédier la femme de chambre rudement, outrée d’être dérangée de la sorte, se calma. « Eh bien ?

Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite

Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite

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Fruitfulness

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