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The poets and rhetoricians have been profuse in their praises of the cadet who appears in The Nights as an adviser of calm sound sense, an intercessor and a peace-maker, and even more remarkable than the rest of his family for an almost incredible magnanimity and generosity — une générosité effrayante.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Mais en lui meme il etait bien, il avait l'air gentil n'avait pas une tete effrayante rien.

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

Thus in 1775 a writer tells us that 'adorable, heavenly, divine, prodigious, detestable, pitiful' were the most common adjectives used of the pictures on view at the Salon; two years later 'frightening' (effrayante) became a fashionable word with which to praise a specially telling likeness.

Out of the Picture Haskell, Francis 1981

It happened that I had unconsciously won the particular regard of one of the Béguines who attended the hospital; and my _tristesse_, which she termed 'effrayante,' one evening attracted her peculiar notice.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 Various

Possibly I was oppressed by the fear of victory and of that Nemesis which almost invariably dogs the steps of our accomplished desires, of what the French writer calls _la page effrayante ... des desirs accomplis_.

Doctor Therne Henry Rider Haggard 1890

The poets and rhetoricians have been profuse in their praises of the cadet who appears in The Nights as an adviser of calm sound sense, an intercessor and a peace-maker, and even more remarkable than the rest of his family for an almost incredible magnanimity and generosity -- une générosité effrayante.

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Je revins bientot arme de ma potion, et deja je trouvai du mieux; la couleur reparaissait aux joues, l'oeil etait detendu; mais la levre pendait toujours avec une effrayante difformite.

The Physiology of Taste 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin 1790

Une forme blanche effrayante ... (apres ca, ma note qui suivra sur les jeux videos n'aura plus aucun interet ...

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

Je ne suis pas très physionomiste (ce qui peut être embarrassant par moments) mais j’ai une mémoire un peu effrayante pour les noms (en général).

Moment fort — Climb to the Stars 2006

Je revins bientot arme de ma potion, et deja je trouvai du mieux; la couleur reparaissait aux joues, l’oeil etait detendu; mais la levre pendait toujours avec une effrayante difformite.

The physiology of taste; or Transcendental gastronomy. Illustrated by anecdotes of distinguished artists and statesmen of both continents by Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin. Translated from the last Paris edition by Fayette Robinson. 2004