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

On this particular occasion, the day after the kardouon's trouvaille, Xaïloun actually found the usually wide-awake animal sleeping.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by Saintsbury, George

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

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

"You can scarcely imagine what it is on a bright day," said Janet, eager, as people always are in such circumstances, to show off her trouvaille.

From Uncanny Tales by Molesworth, Mrs. Mary Louisa

Pray let me know, at your leisure, what you think of this trouvaille.

From Old Friends, Epistolary Parody by Lang, Andrew