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Grown old while leading a cloistered existence, she was no longer the lanky ardent girl who formerly ran to embrace the smuggler Macquart.
Vieillie dans une existence monacale, elle n’était plus la maigre et ardente fille qui courait jadis se jeter au cou du braconnier Macquart.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
La Fortune des Rougon
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The smuggler would come very irregularly, almost always unexpectedly, to Plassans.
Le contrebandier venait très irrégulièrement, presque toujours à l’improviste.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
La Fortune des Rougon
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He spoke vaguely, with the hesitation of a wandering memory, about the Fouques' property, and Adelaide, and her amours with a smuggler.
Il parla vaguement, avec les hésitations d’une mémoire qui se perd, de l’enclos des Fouque, d’Adélaïde, de ses amours avec un contrebandier.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
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The Fortune of the Rougons
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Hitherto I had yielded to the count's despotism as the smuggler pays his fine; henceforth I was a voluntary victim that I might come the nearer to her.
Je m’étais plié naguère au despotisme du comte comme un contrebandier paie ses amendes; désormais, je m’offris volontairement aux coups du despote, pour être au plus près d’Henriette.
Balzac, Honore de / The Lily of the ValleyBalzac, Honore de / Le Lys dans la vallee
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She inherited his hovel in the Impasse Saint-Mittre, and his carbine, which a fellow-smuggler, braving the balls of the custom-house officers, loyally brought back to her.
Elle hérita de la masure de l’impasse Saint-Mittre et de la carabine du défunt, qu’un contrebandier, échappé aux balles des douaniers, lui rapporta loyalement.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
La Fortune des Rougon
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The Fortune of the Rougons
Zola, Emile
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He threatened to turn smuggler like his father, and perpetrate some crime which would dishonour his family.
Il menaça de se faire contrebandier comme son père, et de commettre quelque mauvais coup qui déshonorerait sa famille.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
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The Fortune of the Rougons
Zola, Emile
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Physically, Antoine inherited Adelaide's thick lips only; his other features resembled those of the smuggler, but they were softer and more prone to change of expression.
Au physique, Antoine n’avait que les lèvres charnues d’Adélaïde; ses autres traits étaient ceux du contrebandier, mais adoucis, rendus fuyants et mobiles.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
La Fortune des Rougon
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And for the very first time, Adelaide made an allusion to the smuggler Macquart in her grandson's presence.
Pour la première fois, Adélaïde fit allusion au contrebandier Macquart devant son petit-fils.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
La Fortune des Rougon
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Those last are smugglers: they are carrying carbines.
Ce sont des contrebandiers, ces derniers; ils ont des carabines…
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
La Fortune des Rougon
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Zola, Emile
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The smuggler's body was not even brought home, but was interred in the cemetery of a little mountain village.
On ne ramena pas même le corps du contrebandier, qui fut enterré dans le cimetière d’un petit village des montagnes.
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
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From that moment the young Republican gazed with longing eyes at the smuggler's carbine, which Adelaide had hung over her chimney-piece.
Dès ce moment, le jeune républicain couva des yeux la carabine du contrebandier, qu’Adélaïde avait accrochée sur le manteau de la cheminée.
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
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smuggler

noun
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