trouvaille

Example Sentences

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They were all very kind and enthusiastic, and talked eagerly to each other of a new star, a trouvaille.

From Christine by Cholmondeley, Alice

Mais ... c’est dans le vieux drame grec comme dans la comédie du maître français une trouvaille de génie....

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

He presented it to an only languidly entertained neighborhood as a trouvaille of his own choice.

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

For the while I leave the reader to guess how and in what corner of the coast I happened on the following pendant to Mr. Dobell's trouvaille.

From From a Cornish Window A New Edition by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir

She broke into her sister's confidences now; she announced her trouvaille and did battle for it bravely.

From The Reverberator by James, Henry