All at once Pierre felt the sharp stab which this thought dealt his heart.
Brusquement, Pierre sentit le coup de couteau que cette pensée lui donnait en plein cœur.
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
There was nothing obviously bitter in what he said, but amidst his pleasant sentences there was many a little stab which could be felt only by the initiated.
Le tout sans brutalité aucune, mêlé de phrases aimables, procédant par coups d'épingle, sentis des seuls initiés.
Zola, Emile / His ExcellencyZola, Emile / Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Zola, Emile
His Excellency
Zola, Emile
Jean, startled by his violence, was silent for a few seconds, trying in the confusion of mind which comes of rage to hit on the thing, the phrase, the word, which might stab his brother to the heart.
Jean, surpris de cette violence, se tut quelques secondes, cherchant, dans ce trouble d'esprit où nous jette la fureur, la chose, la phrase, le mot, qui pourrait blesser son frère jusqu'au coeur.
Maupassant, Guy de / Pierre and JeanMaupassant, Guy de / Pierre et Jean
Pierre et Jean
Maupassant, Guy de
Pierre and Jean
Maupassant, Guy de
His conscience bled as if those words were a stab.
Il en avait la conscience meurtrie.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile
In doing so he did not speak to him, but he gazed at him fixedly like one who is conscious of defection, of a cowardly stab in the back on the part of a traitor.
Il ne lui parla pas, le regarda fixement, en homme qui a senti l’abandon, la sourde blessure d’un traître.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - ParisZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Paris
Les Trois Villes - Paris
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Paris
Zola, Emile
As for the duchess, she had long ago given her daughter the first stab by writing to her of Lady Dudley.
Quant à la duchesse, elle avait depuis long-temps porté le premier coup à sa fille en lui parlant elle seule, de lady Dudley.
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
Born at Nemi, in the core of a fierce district, Santobono belonged to a violent family, and his eldest brother had died of a stab. He himself had always professed ardently patriotic opinions.
Santobono, né à Nemi, en plein pays farouche, d’une famille violente dont l’aîné était mort d’un coup de couteau, avait professé de tout temps des idées ardemment patriotiques.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
Zola, Emile
The Three Cities - Rome
Zola, Emile
He died of a stab wound to the head delivered by Kerr during the altercation.
Sa mort a été causée par un coup de couteau à la tête asséné par M. Kerr pendant l'affrontement.
He pictured justice to himself as a kind of general whom nothing escapes and who attaches as much importance to a lost button as to the stab of a knife in the stomach.
Il se figurait la justice comme une espèce de général à qui rien n'échappe et qui attache autant d'importance à un bouton perdu qu'à un coup de couteau dans le ventre.
Maupassant, Guy de / Little Louise RoqueMaupassant, Guy de / La petite Roque
La petite Roque
Maupassant, Guy de
Little Louise Roque
Maupassant, Guy de
Her son continued to stab her with his piercing glances, hoping that she would run away when her courage was exhausted.
Son fils continuait à la tuer de ses regards sévères, espérant qu’elle s’enfuirait, le jour où elle serait à bout de courage.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon