Three Random Words: la panosse (f) = floorcloth = passer la panosse = to mop the floor le monticule (m) = hillock, mound; heap la papille (f) = papilla = les papilles gustatives = taste buds ❋ Unknown (2009)
Pitit tour en ville pour poster mon monticule de lettres de motivations ... ❋ Pinku-tk (2005)
Pis apres j'v faire comme mon pere ... jouer a la console apres avoir eté poster mon monticule de lettre de motivation et perdre toute notions du temps a tel point que si personne me dit qu'il faut manger je mangerai jamais!! ❋ Pinku-tk (2005)
On the brow of Mount Ida (a small monticule so named) we met with and engaged a young Greek as our guide, who told us he had come from Scio with an English lord, who left the island four days previous to our arrival in his felucca. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Isolated on a monticule by the river bank the chateau overlooked its brood of small pavilions, which in a way formed an _entresol_, or foyer, leading to the Pavilion Royal. ❋ Blanche McManus (N/A)
The massive iron gates stood alone between him and the black panther, which cowered some twenty feet away behind a low monticule covered with tufts of grass, its tiny eyes of topaz fixed upon the oncoming prey. ❋ Emmuska Orczy Orczy (1906)
A few kilometres further on we reached the "bizarre monticule," from which sprouted a still more bizarre château. ❋ Unknown (1901)
From the railway we catch sight of the monticule crowned by an obelisk; surmounting the vine-clad slopes, we also obtain a glimpse of its "Ormes de Sully," or group of magnificent elms, one of many in ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
Dufrenoy in a hurry, I think, and added to the difficulty -- it is the whole hill or "colline" which is composed of tuff with cross-stratification; the central boss or "monticule" is simply trachyte. ❋ Charles Darwin (1845)
The latter contents himself with telling us, that it is a very low hillock, _un tres bas monticule. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Le fond du port est occupé par un monticule qui laisse entre lui, et la mer une plage de sable. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Une petite riviere, de très bonne eau, coule à la mer dans cet endroit; & elle est fournie par un lac qui est un peu au loin, au dessus du monticule. ❋ Robert Kerr (1784)
Thus, in Canadian parlance, a frappeur ` batter 'will come up to the marbre ` plate' (lit. ` marble '), face the lanceur ` pitcher' on the monticule ` mound 'who, in turn, lance la balle ` pitches the ball' to the receveur ` catcher. ' ❋ Unknown (1976)
la panosse (f) = floorcloth = passer la panosse = to mop the floor le monticule (m) = hillock, mound; heap la papille (f) = papilla = les papilles gustatives = taste buds ❋ Unknown (2009)
Not a bend of road or winding mountain-path but discloses a new scene -- here a fairy glen, with graceful birch or alder breaking the expanse of dimpled green; there a spinny of larch or of Scotch fir cresting a verdant monticule; now we come upon a little Arcadian home nestled on the hill-side, the spinning-wheel hushed whilst the housewife turns her hay or cuts her patch of rye or wheat growing just outside her door. ❋ Matilda Betham-Edwards (1877)
This circumstance is considered by the Uzbeks as a miracle, and attributed by them to the son of David; but the more natural explanation would be, that a considerable fissure from the bed of the Oxus, which, from a point at a greater elevation, finds its exit here, and in the lapse of ages having discharged its stream of water impregnated with fine sand, has given rise to the monticule as it now appears, and whose dimensions will probably still increase. ❋ Unknown (1856)
