trouvaille

Example Sentences

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"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

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

From T. Tembarom by Burnett, Frances Hodgson

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

From The Reverberator by James, Henry

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

The only odd trouvaille that ever fell to me was a clean copy of "La Journee Chretienne," with the name of Leon Gambetta, 1844, on its catholic fly-leaf.

From The Library by Lang, Andrew