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Anna Karenina vocabulary

35 French vocabulary words

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"Well, this I didn't expect of you! On peut être jaloux, mais à ce point, c'est du dernier ridicule!"*

Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)

^{*One can be jealous, but at this point, it's most ridiculous!}

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“C’est là ma gouverante!” said she, pointing to me, and addressing her nurse; who answered—

“Mais oui, certainement.”

“Are they foreigners?” I inquired, amazed at hearing the French language.

Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)

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Mais bien sûr*, noble stranger, said he cheerily, et mille compliments.

James Joyce. Ulysses (1922)

^{*but of course}

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“Mais qui est-ce?”** I shouted at last,

Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita

^{**But who is it?}

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