She was a slender, delicate, extremely innocent child, and knew nothing except her rosary.
C’était une enfant frêle et délicate, d’une grande innocence, mais dont toute la science consistait à savoir dire le chapelet.
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And at last, from the summit sprang the Basilica, somewhat slender and frail, recalling some finely chased jewel of the Renascence, and looking very new and very white--like a prayer, a spotless dove, soaring aloft from the rocks of Massabielle.
Et, enfin, la Basilique s’élançait un peu mince et frêle, trop neuve, trop blanche, avec son style amaigri de fin bijou, jaillie des roches de Massabielle ainsi qu’une prière, une envolée de colombe pure.
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What a spectacle when the slender, weak old man, all soul, so purely white, passes along the galleries of the Museum of Antiquities on his way to the gardens.
Quel spectacle, lorsque ce vieillard frêle, d’une blancheur pure, suit ces galeries du musée des antiques, pour se rendre aux jardins !
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Tall and slender, he had the broad, lofty, tower-like brow of the Froments.
Grand, mince, brun, il avait le front des Froment, large et haut, en forme de tour.
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Tall and slender, he had an elongated visage, with an unusually developed forehead, lofty and straight like a tower; whilst his jaws tapered, ending in a small refined chin.
Grand et mince, il avait un visage long, avec un front très développé, haut et droit comme une tour, tandis que les mâchoires s’effilaient, se terminaient en un menton très fin.
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Bernadette alone struggled on to the finish, so pleased she was at being there, in that narrow nave whose slender nervures were coloured blue and red.
Seule, Bernadette luttait jusqu’au bout, si contente d’être chez le bon Dieu, dans cette nef étroite, dont les minces nervures étaient peintes en rouge et en bleu.
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The rest of the yard, the flooring of beams, formed a great couch on which the light reposed, streaked here and there with the slender black shadows which edged the different pieces of timber.
Le reste du chantier, le parquet de poutres, n’était qu’un vaste lit où la clarté dormait, à peine striée de minces raies noires par les lignes d’ombres qui coulaient le long des gros madriers.
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And you could realise that she had grown up in all innocence and devotion, slender and supple, with all the appearance of a girl hardly in her teens.
Et on la sentait si fine, si souple, sans plus de poitrine qu’une fillette, toute poussée en innocence et en dévouement.
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She would glide in among them, and look at them with an air of perplexed and sorrowful earnestness; and sometimes she would lift their chains with her slender hands, and then sigh wofully, as she glided away.
Elle se glissait parmi eux, les regardait avec une douloureuse anxiété, soulevait de ses petites mains frêles leurs lourdes chaînes, puis s’éloignait en soupirant.
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And even the slender Cecile had acquired strength, the strength which love's energy can impart even to a childish form.
Et Cécile elle-même, si mince, restée fillette à jamais, avait pris de la force, l’énergique amour dans un corps d’enfant.
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The sight of the lady with nothing on her but a chemise suddenly brought her to a standstill, with a jerk, a quivering of her precocious young girl's slender body.
La dame en chemise l'immobilisa, dans une secousse, dans un frisson de tout son corps grêle de fillette précoce.
Taken singly, those slender flames, those mere specks of light, were modest and unobtrusive, like the lowly; it was only their great number that supplied the effulgence, the sun-like resplendency.
C’était bien cela, des flammes grêles, à peine des points lumineux, d’une modestie de menu peuple, et dont le grand nombre faisait l’éclat, un resplendissement de soleil.
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slender
adjective
Positive degree
slender
Comparative degree
slenderer
Superlative degree
slenderest
slender
verb
Basic forms
Past
slendered
Imperative
slender
Present Participle (Participle I)
slendering
Past Participle (Participle II)
slendered
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I slender
we slender
you slender
you slender
he/she/it slenders
they slender
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am slendering
we are slendering
you are slendering
you are slendering
he/she/it is slendering
they are slendering
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have slendered
we have slendered
you have slendered
you have slendered
he/she/it has slendered
they have slendered
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been slendering
we have been slendering
you have been slendering
you have been slendering
he/she/it has been slendering
they have been slendering
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I slendered
we slendered
you slendered
you slendered
he/she/it slendered
they slendered
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was slendering
we were slendering
you were slendering
you were slendering
he/she/it was slendering
they were slendering
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had slendered
we had slendered
you had slendered
you had slendered
he/she/it had slendered
they had slendered
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been slendering
we had been slendering
you had been slendering
you had been slendering
he/she/it had been slendering
they had been slendering
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will slender
we shall/will slender
you will slender
you will slender
he/she/it will slender
they will slender
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be slendering
we shall/will be slendering
you will be slendering
you will be slendering
he/she/it will be slendering
they will be slendering
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have slendered
we shall/will have slendered
you will have slendered
you will have slendered
he/she/it will have slendered
they will have slendered
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been slendering
we shall/will have been slendering
you will have been slendering
you will have been slendering
he/she/it will have been slendering
they will have been slendering
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would slender
we should/would slender
you would slender
you would slender
he/she/it would slender
they would slender
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be slendering
we should/would be slendering
you would be slendering
you would be slendering
he/she/it would be slendering
they would be slendering
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have slendered
we should/would have slendered
you would have slendered
you would have slendered
he/she/it would have slendered
they would have slendered
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice