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A younger one, who followed, gave vent to a bark, a kind of plaintive animal cry, each time that the tic douloureux which was torturing her twisted her mouth and her right cheek, which she seemed to throw forward.Une plus jeune, derrière, avait un aboiement, une sorte de cri plaintif de bête, chaque fois que le tic douloureux dont elle était torturée, lui tordait la bouche.Zola, Emile / The Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile / Les Trois Villes - LourdesLes Trois Villes - LourdesZola, EmileThe Three Cities Trilogy - LourdesZola, Emile
The life led in the little house at Passy, silent and shut off from the outer world, was a very regular one, with no more noise about it than the faint tic-tac of an old-fashioned timepiece.Dans le petit hôtel de Passy, silencieux et fermé, l’existence passait régulière, avec le tic-tac affaibli des vieilles horloges.Zola, Emile / His MasterpieceZola, Emile / L'OeuvreL'OeuvreZola, EmileHis MasterpieceZola, Emile
Amidst all this void came a low tic-tac from the swaying pendulum.Le balancier de l'horloge battait sourdement, dans tout ce vide.Zola, Emile / Abbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile / La Faute de l'Abbe MouretLa Faute de l'Abbe MouretZola, EmileAbbe Mouret's TransgressionZola, Emile© BiblioBazaar, LLC
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Collocations
tic-tac-toe
morpion
Word forms
tic
noun
Singular | Plural | |
Common case | tic | tics |
Possessive case | tic's | tics' |