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Mais qu'il ne perde point courage; tous les Obstacles s'applanissent peu -- a-- peu devant lui; ses Ennemis se lassent ou deviennent odieux et suspects; et le public, clair par ces memes productions qu'il n'avoit pas d'abord appreciees, rend enfin justice leur Auteur.
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I wish that I could live to see our hands trempes dans le sang odieux de cette nation infernale, rather than our petits maitres here, in Caca du Dauphin, Boue de Paris, Bile repandue du Comte d'Artois, ou vomis (sic) de la Reine.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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I wish that I could live to see our hands trempes dans le sang odieux de cette nation infernale, rather than our petits maitres here, in Caca du Dauphin, Boue de Paris, Bile repandue du Comte d'Artois, ou vomis (sic) de la Reine.
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One of the letters, which has been preserved, was written to complain of this strictness, or, as the boy expressed it, "the odieux rule and demeaning" of their tutor, and also to ask for some "fyne bonnets," which the writer wished to have sent for himself and for his little brother.
Richard III Makers of History Jacob Abbott 1841
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Et bannit de leur coeur ces tranfports odieux; ...
Essai sur l'homme, poëme philosophique, en cinq langues, savoir: anglois, latin, italien ... 1772
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Prussians -- monstres odieux -- smashing into the village, the cry "Maman!
Antwerp to Gallipoli A Year of the War on Many Fronts—and Behind Them Arthur Ruhl 1905
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