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moth-eaten exemples de phrases
moth-eaten
1. She could unfold the sling to veil her face, but the chiton was moth-eaten, stained, and ill-fitting
2. What he imagined constituted his soul had awoken, in one piece, within the body of a large moth-eaten black Labrador dog
3. I noted the moth-eaten hedge in front and the unassuming little house retreating behind it
4. From some he received the branches withered and moth-eaten; those who returned branches in that state the angel of the Lord ordered to stand apart
5. Others again returned them withered but not moth-eaten; and these he ordered to stand apart
6. " "Listen" he said: "they whose branches were found withered and moth-eaten are the apostates and traitors of the Church who have blasphemed the Lord in their sins and have moreover been ashamed of the name of the Lord by which they were called
7. Luckily, whenever Marcus found his hand stealing towards a moth-eaten parchment, Roelle kicked him
8. Ac-tually, ever since she had found it in Aureliano Segun-do’s trunks, Fernanda had put on the moth-eaten queen’s dress many times
9. Tormented by the certainty that he was his wife’s brother, Aureliano ran out to the parish house to search through the moldy and moth-eaten archives for some clue to his parentage
10. what with that moth-eaten mutt chewing at my clothes, I could
11. Jeremy wrapped his thin, moth-eaten blanket around his chilled
12. It was a moth-eaten old
13. No excitements, no clothes, acquaintances so shabby that they seem almost moth-eaten, the days filled with the same dull round, a home in a little town where we all get into one groove and having got into it stay in it, to which only faint echoes come of what is going on in the world outside, a place where one is amused and entertained by second-rate things, second-rate concerts, second-rate plays, and feels oneself grow cultured by attendance at second-rate debating-society meetings
14. A moth-eaten tartan blanket obscured their presence, but they weren’t well hidden
15. His getting on his box, which I remember to have been decorated with an old weather-stained pea-green hammercloth moth-eaten into rags, was quite a work of time
16. The two bands were playing outside in-the watermelon-eating dust-blowing cricket-jumping night and the audience was going out and my friend and I sat for a long while until we were almost alone in the moth-eaten tent through which the stars moved yet new bright constellations into place and would continue to move their small strange fires during the night
17. Hildebranda wanted to open the house, air it, bring in her father’s musicians and fireworks and castles of gunpowder, and have a Carnival dance whose gale winds would clear out her cousin’s moth-eaten spirit, but she soon realized that her proposals were to no avail, and for a very simple reason: there was no one to invite
18. It was not easy for her to imagine Florentino Ariza as he had been then, much less to believe that the taciturn boy, so vulnerable in the rain, was the moth-eaten old wreck who had stood in front of her with no consideration for her situation, or the slightest respect for her grief, and had seared her soul with a flaming insult that still made it difficult for her to breathe