pour

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Comment pouvez-vous avoir la cruauté de mettre à mort ces pauvres agneaux?--Madame, lui répondit le boucher étonné, est-ce que vous aimeriez mieux les manger vivants Quel faible la bonne femme avait-elle?--Quel reproche a-t-elle fait a son boucher?--Comment lui a-t-il donné à penser Savez-vous une autre expression pour: mettre à mort, et aimer mieux 76.

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  1. transitive verb To make (a liquid or granular solid) stream or flow, as from a container.
  2. transitive verb To send forth, produce, express, or utter copiously, as if in a stream or flood: poured money into the project; poured out my inner thoughts.
  3. intransitive verb To stream or flow continuously or profusely.

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  • Comment pouvez-vous avoir la cruauté de mettre à mort ces pauvres agneaux?--Madame, lui répondit le boucher étonné, est-ce que vous aimeriez mieux les manger vivants Quel faible la bonne femme avait-elle?--Quel reproche a-t-elle fait a son boucher?--Comment lui a-t-il donné à penser Savez-vous une autre expression pour: mettre à mort, et aimer mieux 76. —  French Conversation and Composition
  • Il n'arrivera pas--pour une heure The little drums were instantly hushed, the procession turned to the right-about, and walked back to the altar again, the blown-out candle that had been on the near side of us before was now on the off side, the National Guards set down their muskets and began at their sandwiches again. —  The Second Funeral of Napoleon
  • It came on to pour, and--I turned back. —  Mystère de la chambre jaune. English
  • Why should ye mishandle yourselves thus C'est pour vos peches--pour vos peches," they droned, looking at the travellers with sad lack-lustre eyes, and then bent to their bloody work once more without heed to the prayers and persuasions which were addressed to them. —  The White Company
  • Ce qui est un spectacle plein d'instruction--pour ceux qui ne sont pas de ladite Societe. —  Autocrat of the Breakfast Table
 

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  1. Middle English pouren, perhaps from Old North French purer, to sift, pour out, from Latin pūrāre, to purify, from pūrus, pure; see peuə- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also poure, powre, power; from Middle English pouren, powren, poweren, poren, pour; perhaps from Welsh bwrw, cast, throw, rain (bwrw gwlaw, ‘cast rain,’ rain, bwrw dagrau, shed tears, bwrw eira, ‘cast snow,’ snow); cf. Gaelic purr, push, thrust, drive, urge. Cf. Dutch porren = Low German purren, stir: see pore.
  2. from pour, v.
 

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