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  • The lionne is due to the famous song by Alfred de Musset:

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • Quand le singe a vu qu´ une lionne s´ approchait, il a ouvert ses lèvres et a dit clairement « baobab ».

    The Little Prince Hits a Brick Wall Ayala Sender 2007

  • The lionne is due to the famous song by Alfred de Musset:

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • Cherchez des adjectifs, des noms, ou des verbes des mots dans cette histoire; _e. g._ rugissement: rugir, rugissant; lion: lionne.

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • Saidee, who had come out from the dining-room into the courtyard, could see her on the wall, and Rostafel was babbling that she was "une petite lionne, une merveille de courage et de finesse."

    The Golden Silence 1901

  • He had given her little attention; a waltz, a cigar, a passing jest, were all he had bestowed on the little lionne of the Spahis corps; and the deepest sentiment she had ever awakened in him was an involuntary pity -- pity for this flower which blossomed on the polluted field of war, and under the poison-dropping branches of lawless crime.

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • Longeat battues, and all the rest of the general programme, with no drawback to it, except the duties at the Palace, the heat of a review, or the extravagance of a pampered lionne -- then to be pulled up in that easy, swinging gallop for sheer want of a golden shoe, as one may say, is abominably bitter, and requires far more philosophy to endure than

    Under Two Flags 1839-1908 Ouida 1873

  • You will be glad, I know, to hear that I have been successful here, and perhaps amused to know that when your letter reached me yesterday, I was going, _en lionne_, to a great dinner-party at Lady Morgan's.

    Records of a Girlhood Fanny Kemble 1851

  • Linda, the heroine, is still more speculative and spiritual than Laura Gay, but she has been “presented,” and has more and far grander lovers; very wicked and fascinating women are introduced — even a French _lionne_; and no expense is spared to get up as exciting a story as you will find in the most immoral novels.

    The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete George Eliot 1849

  • The _lionne_ is due to the famous song by Alfred de

    Albert Savarus Honor�� de Balzac 1824

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