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  • Et il avait un petit bouledogue qui, a le voir, ne valait pas un sou; on aurait cru que parier contre lui c'etait voler, tant il etait ordinaire; mais aussitot les enjeux faits, il devenait un autre chien.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

  • His aunt's restless and aggrieved glance kept flecking him from the side, but the two were as motionless as the bouledogue, standing there on his bench legs and surveying his travelling basket with loathing.

    Youth and the Bright Medusa 1920

  • His aunt's restless and aggrieved glance kept flecking him from the side, but the two were as motionless as the _bouledogue_, standing there on his bench legs and surveying his travelling basket with loathing.

    Youth and the Bright Medusa Willa Sibert Cather 1910

  • Et il avait un petit bouledogue qui, a le voir, ne valait pas un sou; on aurait cru que parier contre lui c'etait voler, tant il etait ordinaire; mais aussitot les enjeux faits, il devenait un autre chien.

    Sketches New and Old, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

  • Et il avait un petit bouledogue qui, a le voir, ne valait pas un sou; on aurait cru que parier contre lui c'etait voler, tant il etait ordinaire; mais aussitot les enjeux faits, il devenait un autre chien.

    Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

  • (bouledogue!) who, to him see, no value, not a cent; one would believe that to bet against him it was to steal, so much he was ordinary; but as soon as the game made, she becomes another dog.

    Sketches New And Old Twain, Mark, 1835-1910 1922

  • (bouledogue!) who, to him see, no value, not a cent; one would believe that to bet against him it was to steal, so much he was ordinary; but as soon as the game made, she becomes another dog.

    Sketches New and Old, Part 1. Mark Twain 1872

  • (bouledogue!) who, to him see, no value, not a cent; one would believe that to bet against him it was to steal, so much he was ordinary; but as soon as the game made, she becomes another dog.

    Sketches New and Old Mark Twain 1872

  • Eengleesh, you are like ze bouledogue, ven you take hold you not nevare let go again. "

    The Congo Rovers A Story of the Slave Squadron Harry Collingwood 1886

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