Sentence example with the word 'trompe'

trompe

Last update: June 26, 2015


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S'il existe beaucoup de varietes produites par l'effet des circonstances, ces varietes ne denaturent point les especes; mais on se trompe, sans doute souvent, en indiquant comme espece, ce qui n'est que variete; et alors je sens que cette erreur peut tirer a consequence dans les raisonnements que 1'on fait sur cette matiere."   [Please select]

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THEY swarmed up towards Sherburn's house, a-whooping and raging like Injuns, and everything had to clear the way or get run over and tromped to mush, and it was awful to see.   [Please select]

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"Sonnez donc la trompette, Et battez les tambours."   [Please select]

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"[2] The French still designate the proboscis of an elephant by the same expression "trompe," (which we have unmeaningly corrupted into _trunk_,) and hence the scream of the elephant is known as "trumpeting" by the hunters in Ceylon."   [Please select]

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[Footnote 1: PALLEGOIX, in his _Description du Royaume Thai ou Siam_, adverts to a sound produced by the elephant when weary: "quand il est fatigué, _il frappe la terre avec sa_ trompe, et en tire un son semblable à celui du cor."   [Please select]

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