Catch-22 vocabulary

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lui

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Definition:
he, him, her, it

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he had served in the police, lui, so that I had better do as I was told.

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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“Yes, and she just used to say it in this way: ‘Qu’ avez vous donc? lui dit un de ces rats; parlez!’*

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
*What do you have? said one of these rats; speak!
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Other fellow did it: other me. Hat, tie, overcoat, nose. Lui, c'est moi. You seem to have enjoyed yourself.

James Joyce. Ulysses
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“Non, dites-lui que je ne veux pas le voir, que je suis furieuse contre lui, parce qu’il m’a manque parole"*

Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace
*No, tell him I don’t wish to see him, I am furious with him for not keeping his word to me
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those lines of Mallarmé which you used to like:
Un cygne d’autrefois se souvient que c’est lui
Magnifique mais qui sans espoir se délivre
Pour n’avoir pas chanté la région où vivre
Quand du stérile hiver a resplendi l’ennui.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 6]
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