Jane Eyre vocabulary

17 French vocabulary words

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17 [french] words
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heure

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Definition:
1. time, hour
2. o'clock
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"Que la personne qui est arrivee la derniere, celle qui demande, qu’elle sorte! Qu’elle sorte!"* articulated the Frenchman, without opening his eyes.
"Vous m’excuserez, mais vous voyez.... Revenez vers dix heures, encore mieux demain."**

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina.
*That the person who came last, who asks her out! Let her out!
**Excuse me, but you see... Come back around ten o'clock, better yet tomorrow
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he told me one day, “Your vord not be give me de satisfaction—me find necessaire to chercher for my medicine; pardonnez moi—il faut chercber—me demand le clef of your coffre a cette heure.”

Tobias Smollett. The Adventures of Roderick Random (1749)
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“Don’t you feel hungry, Adèle?”
“Mais oui, mademoiselle: voilà cinq ou six heures que nous n’avons pas mangé.”*

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
*it's been 5 or 6 hours since we've eaten
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