botte

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botte

(bɔt)
n
(Fencing) fencing a thrust or hit
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Ce poulet va tomber jusqu'au fond de mes bottes," Vassenka, who had recovered his spirits, quoted the French saying as he finished his second chicken.
Thus Flora on one occasion had been reduced to rage and despair, had her most secret feelings lacerated, had obtained a view of the utmost baseness to which common human nature can descend--I won't say e propos de bottes as the French would excellently put it, but literally e propos of some mislaid cheap lace trimmings for a nightgown the romping one was making for herself.
"And you say he came in to make you this confidence like this--for nothing-- a propos des bottes ."
D'autre part, la protection civile a enregistre durant la meme periode 3 incendies de forets et un incendie de maquis, avec des pertes estimees 61,5 hectares de forets, 0,5 hectare de maquis, 5.700 bottes de foin, 120 arbres fruitiers et 160 palmiers, conclut le communique.
[beaucoup moins que]Pour cinquante tetes de betail, il nous a fallu acheter quotidiennement au moins cinq bottes de nourriture durant toute l'annee.
In a separate incident, amateur rider Andrew Glassonbury, who is based with Pipe, was banned for ten days after being found guilty of not obtaining the best possible placing on Leche Bottes in the maiden hurdle.
A mini fridge, with enough room for six bottes of wine or 18 cans of beer, it can be plugged into the mains or car socket.
Mort, avant meme de succomber sous les bottes des soldats.' Perhaps none of this is true.
Ces feux ont detruit 11 656 hectares de forets, 4 446 arbres fruitiers, 159 Ha de terrains agricoles, 17 069 bottes de foin, 162 habitations, 471 ruches et 9 poulaillers.