Rose was laughing like a lunatic, and looked very flushed, but she was soaked to such a point that water streamed from her clothes, her hair, her hands. You might have taken her for some fairy of the springs who had overturned her urn on herself.

Rose riait follement, très rouge, essoufflée, mouillée à un tel point, que ses vêtements, ses cheveux, ses mains ruisselaient, une fée des sources qui aurait renversé son urne sur elle.

Zola, Emile / FruitfulnessZola, Emile / Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite

Les Quatre Evangiles - Fecondite

Zola, Emile

Fruitfulness

Zola, Emile

Then the urn-shaped ballot-boxes were passed round by the ushers who, threading their way between the seats, received the votes in these zinc receptacles.

Puis, les urnes circulèrent, des huissiers passèrent entre les bancs, recueillant les votes dans les boîtes de zinc.

Zola, Emile / His ExcellencyZola, Emile / Son Excellence Eugene Rougon

Son Excellence Eugene Rougon

Zola, Emile

His Excellency

Zola, Emile

Instead of Charles strapped behind us in his wheelchair, there was only a metal urn, the metamorphosis too enormous for discussion.

Au lieu de Charles sanglé à l'arrière de la voiture dans sa chaise roulante, il n'y avait plus qu'une urne métallique, métamorphose trop énorme pour permettre la moindre discussion.

Mingus, Sue / Tonight at noonMingus, Sue / Pour l'amour de Mingus

Pour l'amour de Mingus

Mingus, Sue

© 2003 Editions du Layeur

Tonight at noon

Mingus, Sue

© 2002 by Sue Graham Mingus

They tripped down some broad steps, from whose fallen urns still flickered the violet fires of the iris.

Ils descendirent un large escalier dont les urnes renversées flambaient encore des hautes flammes violettes des iris.

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

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