trouvaille
Example Sentences
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All the men frankly desired to see the trouvaille at close quarters, and most of the women wanted a peep, though they weren't brutally open about it.
From The Brightener by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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 George Saintsbury
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 Andrew Lang
It's only that poor Biddy's belle trouvaille has got a heart.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
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 Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
