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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.
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
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.
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
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 !
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Rome
Zola, Emile
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.
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Zola, Emile
Fruitfulness
Zola, Emile
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite
Zola, Emile
Fruitfulness
Zola, Emile
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.
Zola, Emile / Pot-BouilleZola, Emile / Pot-Bouille
Pot-Bouille
Zola, Emile
Pot-Bouille
Zola, Emile
She had known it before; but hitherto she had never realized it, till she saw the slender form of Rosa almost convulsed with distress.
Elle l’avait su; mais elle n’en comprit l’odieuse réalité qu’en voyant la délicate jeune fille se tordre d’angoisse à ses genoux.
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
The Immaculate Conception, set on the walnut chest of drawers, was smiling softly, with her slender lips, marked by a dash of carmine.
L'Immaculée-Conception, sur la commode de noyer, souriait tendrement, du coin de ses lèvres minces, indiquées d'un trait de carmin.
Zola, Emile / Abbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile / La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret
La Faute de l'Abbe Mouret
Zola, Emile
Abbe Mouret's Transgression
Zola, Emile
© BiblioBazaar, LLC
Little by little, with dispiriting tardiness, day escapes from the sky into the slender framework of the black clouds.
Peu à peu, avec une lenteur désespérante, le jour s’échappe du ciel dans la maigre charpente des nuages noirs.
Barbusse, Henri / Under fireBarbusse, Henri / Le feu
Le feu
Barbusse, Henri
© BELENUS, 2008
Under fire
Barbusse, Henri
© 1917 by E. P. DUTTON & CO
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.
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

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slender

adjective
Positive degreeslender
Comparative degreeslenderer
Superlative degreeslenderest

slender

verb
Basic forms
Pastslendered
Imperativeslender
Present Participle (Participle I)slendering
Past Participle (Participle II)slendered
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I slenderwe slender
you slenderyou slender
he/she/it slendersthey slender
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am slenderingwe are slendering
you are slenderingyou are slendering
he/she/it is slenderingthey are slendering
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have slenderedwe have slendered
you have slenderedyou have slendered
he/she/it has slenderedthey have slendered
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been slenderingwe have been slendering
you have been slenderingyou have been slendering
he/she/it has been slenderingthey have been slendering
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I slenderedwe slendered
you slenderedyou slendered
he/she/it slenderedthey slendered
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was slenderingwe were slendering
you were slenderingyou were slendering
he/she/it was slenderingthey were slendering
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had slenderedwe had slendered
you had slenderedyou had slendered
he/she/it had slenderedthey had slendered
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been slenderingwe had been slendering
you had been slenderingyou had been slendering
he/she/it had been slenderingthey had been slendering
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will slenderwe shall/will slender
you will slenderyou will slender
he/she/it will slenderthey will slender
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be slenderingwe shall/will be slendering
you will be slenderingyou will be slendering
he/she/it will be slenderingthey will be slendering
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have slenderedwe shall/will have slendered
you will have slenderedyou will have slendered
he/she/it will have slenderedthey will have slendered
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been slenderingwe shall/will have been slendering
you will have been slenderingyou will have been slendering
he/she/it will have been slenderingthey will have been slendering
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would slenderwe should/would slender
you would slenderyou would slender
he/she/it would slenderthey would slender
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be slenderingwe should/would be slendering
you would be slenderingyou would be slendering
he/she/it would be slenderingthey would be slendering
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have slenderedwe should/would have slendered
you would have slenderedyou would have slendered
he/she/it would have slenderedthey would have slendered
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would have been slenderingwe should/would have been slendering
you would have been slenderingyou would have been slendering
he/she/it would have been slenderingthey would have been slendering
Present Indefinite, Passive Voice
I am slenderedwe are slendered
you are slenderedyou are slendered
he/she/it is slenderedthey are slendered
Present Continuous, Passive Voice
I am being slenderedwe are being slendered
you are being slenderedyou are being slendered
he/she/it is being slenderedthey are being slendered
Present Perfect, Passive Voice
I have been slenderedwe have been slendered
you have been slenderedyou have been slendered
he/she/it has been slenderedthey have been slendered
Past Indefinite, Passive Voice
I was slenderedwe were slendered
you were slenderedyou were slendered
he/she/it was slenderedthey were slendered
Past Continuous, Passive Voice
I was being slenderedwe were being slendered
you were being slenderedyou were being slendered
he/she/it was being slenderedthey were being slendered
Past Perfect, Passive Voice
I had been slenderedwe had been slendered
you had been slenderedyou had been slendered
he/she/it had been slenderedthey had been slendered
Future Indefinite, Passive Voice
I shall/will be slenderedwe shall/will be slendered
you will be slenderedyou will be slendered
he/she/it will be slenderedthey will be slendered
Future Perfect, Passive Voice
I shall/will have been slenderedwe shall/will have been slendered
you will have been slenderedyou will have been slendered
he/she/it will have been slenderedthey will have been slendered