fille

Those little shepherds were supposed to have looked down upon /la mere beaute/, and upon /la plus jolie fille de France/ as she danced her incomparable minuets.

He referred to her ironically as la fille de mon concierge.

"Even the trivial fact that in the year 1865 a picture by Greuze entitled La Jeune Fille a l'Agneau fetched one million two hundred thousand francs--more than forty thousand pounds--at the Portalis sale may start a train of reflection in your mind."

Reuter's establishment, where about a hundred specimens of the genus "jeune fille" collected together, offered a fertile variety of subject.

You see, I have not loved you before parce que je croyais que tu n'es qu'un utchitel (quelque chose comme un lacquais, n'est-ce pas?) Yet all the time I have been true to you, parce que je suis bonne fille."

'Ah, petite fille alors!' and he wrote in the album:

It is not possible to ascertain thei thickness, but the water of small streamlets can be hear trickling through the stones many feet below the surface The actual depth is probably great, because the crevice between the lower fragments must long ago have been fille up with sand.

As a delicate concession to this unfortunately-born foreigner, Mr Podsnap, in receiving him, had presented his wife as 'Madame Podsnap;' also his daughter as 'Mademoiselle Podsnap,' with some inclination to add 'ma fille,' in which bold venture, however, he checked himself.

Je suis capitaine de chasseurs (Heyward well knew that the other was of a regiment in the line); j'ai ici, avec moi, les filles du commandant de la fortification.

I was supposed to do my classical variation from La Fille Mal Gardee, and at the last minute we decided to change to my contemporary piece.

Il regarde la PETITE FILLE. Mouille de nouveau sa mine, s'applique a ecrire.

Due to these past encounters with the law, it comes as no surprise that prior to publishing La Fille Elisa, Edmond de Goncourt wished to divert attention from Elisa-as-prostitute to the less controversial theme of Elisa-as-prisoner.