And yet it was still she, our antelope with the shapely and muscular buttocks, our spy whose heaving bosom swelled full and round beneath the tatters of her dress.
Et pourtant, c'était toujours elle, notre antilope à la croupe musclée et nerveuse, notre espionne dont la poitrine haletante s'arrondissait sous les lambeaux de la robe.
Makine, Andrei / Once Upon The River LoveMakine, Andrei / Au temps du fleuve Amour
Under the fine ceiling of carved and gilded wood-work, the red wall-hangings of brocatelle, with a large palm pattern, were falling into tatters.
Sous l’admirable plafond de bois sculpté et doré, les tentures rouges des murs, une brocatelle à grandes palmes, s’en allaient en lambeaux.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities - RomeZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Rome
Les Trois Villes - Rome
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The Three Cities - Rome
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It was late in the evening when the weary occupants of the shanties came flocking home, – men and women, in soiled and tattered garments, surly and uncomfortable, and in no mood to look pleasantly on new-comers.
La soirée s’avançait lorsque les habitants des huttes, troupeau harassé de fatigue, parurent – hommes et femmes à demi couverts de dégoûtants lambeaux, tristes, hargneux, mal disposés à faire accueil aux nouveaux venus.
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
It is befouled faces and tattered flesh, it is the corpses that are no longer like corpses even, floating on the ravenous earth.
C’est les faces moisies et les chairs en loques et les cadavres qui ne ressemblent même plus à des cadavres, surnageant sur la terre vorace.
Barbusse, Henri / Under fireBarbusse, Henri / Le feu
There were tattered uniforms showing the deserters who had wandered from some frontier post into this remote region. There were Kanakas from the Sandwich Isles, who had crossed the deserts from California.
On voyait encore là des uniformes en lambeaux qui désignaient les déserteurs de quelque poste de la frontière; des Kanakas des îles Sandwich, qui avaient traversé les déserts de la Californie, etc., etc
Reid, Mayne / The Scalp HuntersReid, Mayne / Les chausseurs de chevelures
These people live in the open air, regardless of everybody, setting their pots boiling, eating nameless things, freely displaying their tattered garments, and sleeping, fighting, kissing, and reeking with mingled filth and misery.
Ce monde vit sans honte, en plein air, devant tous, faisant bouillir leur marmite, mangeant des choses sans nom, étalant leurs nippes trouées, dormant, se battant, s’embrassant, puant la saleté et la misère.
Zola, Emile / The Fortune of the RougonsZola, Emile / La Fortune des Rougon
The girl sometimes wore the same chemise for three weeks together; her stockings fell over her shoes, which were sadly worn down at the heels, and her tattered skirts hung about her like a beggar's rags.
L'enfant gardait parfois la même chemise pendant trois semaines; ses bas, qui tombaient sur ses souliers éculés, n'avaient plus de talons; ses jupes lamentables pendaient comme des loques de mendiante.
Zola, Emile / The Conquest of PlassansZola, Emile / La Conquete des Plassans
La Conquete des Plassans
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The Conquest of Plassans
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He sat down on an old tattered rush-bottom chair, in the midst of the dirty cloths and vego-table parings left from the previous day, and exclaimed : ' Go along! make haste!'
Il s'assit sur une chaise dépaillée de la cuisine, au milieu des torchons et des épluchures de la veille. --Dis vite, dis vite, murmura-t-il.
Zola, Emile / The Conquest of PlassansZola, Emile / La Conquete des Plassans
La Conquete des Plassans
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The Conquest of Plassans
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At the foot of the staircase Rougon met a little dark-complexioned woman, with untidy hair and a tattered yellow dress. She was biting at an orange as though it were an apple.
Rougon, au bas de l'escalier, rencontra une petite femme noire, mal coiffée, traînant une robe jaune en loques, qui mordait dans une orange comme dans une pomme.
Zola, Emile / His ExcellencyZola, Emile / Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Son Excellence Eugene Rougon
Zola, Emile
His Excellency
Zola, Emile
A few tattered tents stood in the open ground; and there were skin lodges after the Indian fashion.
Quelques tentes en lambeaux étaient dressées çà et là; on y voyait aussi des huttes en peaux de bêtes, à la manière indienne.
Reid, Mayne / The Scalp HuntersReid, Mayne / Les chausseurs de chevelures
It is true that the poor girl had nothing to regret, that she had been compelled to banish everything from her life, health, joy, and love, so that she might leave it as one casts off a soiled, worn, tattered garment.
Il est vrai que la pauvre fille n’avait rien à regretter : on lui avait fait tout mettre en dehors de la vie, sa santé, sa joie, son amour, pour qu’elle la quittât comme on quitte un litige en lambeaux, usé et sali.
Zola, Emile / The Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
Les Trois Villes - Lourdes
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The Three Cities Trilogy - Lourdes
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tatter
noun
Singular
Plural
Common case
tatter
tatters
Possessive case
tatter's
tatters'
tatter
verb
Basic forms
Past
tattered
Imperative
tatter
Present Participle (Participle I)
tattering
Past Participle (Participle II)
tattered
Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I tatter
we tatter
you tatter
you tatter
he/she/it tatters
they tatter
Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am tattering
we are tattering
you are tattering
you are tattering
he/she/it is tattering
they are tattering
Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have tattered
we have tattered
you have tattered
you have tattered
he/she/it has tattered
they have tattered
Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been tattering
we have been tattering
you have been tattering
you have been tattering
he/she/it has been tattering
they have been tattering
Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I tattered
we tattered
you tattered
you tattered
he/she/it tattered
they tattered
Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was tattering
we were tattering
you were tattering
you were tattering
he/she/it was tattering
they were tattering
Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had tattered
we had tattered
you had tattered
you had tattered
he/she/it had tattered
they had tattered
Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been tattering
we had been tattering
you had been tattering
you had been tattering
he/she/it had been tattering
they had been tattering
Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will tatter
we shall/will tatter
you will tatter
you will tatter
he/she/it will tatter
they will tatter
Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be tattering
we shall/will be tattering
you will be tattering
you will be tattering
he/she/it will be tattering
they will be tattering
Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have tattered
we shall/will have tattered
you will have tattered
you will have tattered
he/she/it will have tattered
they will have tattered
Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been tattering
we shall/will have been tattering
you will have been tattering
you will have been tattering
he/she/it will have been tattering
they will have been tattering
Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would tatter
we should/would tatter
you would tatter
you would tatter
he/she/it would tatter
they would tatter
Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be tattering
we should/would be tattering
you would be tattering
you would be tattering
he/she/it would be tattering
they would be tattering
Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have tattered
we should/would have tattered
you would have tattered
you would have tattered
he/she/it would have tattered
they would have tattered
Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice