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Vaut  n.  A vault; a leap. (Obs.)






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Vaut" Quotes from Famous Books



... chevalier dit, regardant l'un et l'autre: —Rois, un vieux de mon temps vaut deux jeunes du votre. Je vous defie a mort, laissant a votre choix D'attaquer l'un sans l'autre ou tous deux a la fois; Prenez au tas quelque arme ici qui vous convienne; Vous etes sans cuirasse et je quitte la mienne; Car le chatiment ...
— La Legende des Siecles • Victor Hugo

... one thing," continued Bigot, "the Grand Company will not, like the eels of Melun, cry out before they are skinned. What says the proverb, 'Mieux vaut engin que force' (craft beats strength)? The Grand Company must prosper as the first condition of life in New France. Perhaps a year or two of repose may not be amiss, to revictual and reinforce the Colony; and by that time we shall be ready to pick the lock ...
— The Golden Dog - Le Chien d'Or • William Kirby

... decided that the policy of protecting titles must yield to the policy of protecting trade. Casaregis held that the general principle nemo plus juris in alium transferre potest quam ipse habet must give way in mercantile transactions to possession vaut titre. /1/ In later times, as markets overt have lost their importance, the Factors' Acts and their successive amendments have tended more and more in the direction ...
— The Common Law • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

... promis de l'appui; l'avoir pousse contre Arabi, le laisser entre les mains d'une grossiere soldatesque, ce serait une felonie doublee d'une sottise, car on perdrait ainsi ce qui a ete gagne sur la barbarie par les efforts de plusieurs generations. Aucune paix ne vaut qu'on l'achete aussi cher. Votre pays s'honore et se grandit en le comprenant, et sa victoire sera celle de la civilisation autant que la sienne propre. En se separant de vous, nos seuls amis, en ce moment, en abandonnant le Khedive malgre tant d'engagements ...
— The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke V1 • Stephen Gwynn

... tres bien, fort bien!" said the operator when he had finished. "Voila un sang-froid bien opportun, et qui vaut mille elans ...
— Villette • Charlotte Bronte

... moment virtuously bestowed, with matronly grace, in curtained slumbers. Asmodeus looked, and beheld, through a hole in the curtain, an old, rusty saw crunching away across that poor, desolate, weary heart, Le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle.—"Stop, stop, father!" cries Asmodeus, Jr. "What does that mean?"—Why, my dear boy, that is the saw which was tearing the poor woman's heart. The words mean, in plain English, "The play is not worth the candle." ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 93, July, 1865 • Various

... William laissa tomber une guinee que les deux freres ne purent retrouver. "Mauvaise affaire," fit William: "voila qu'il nous faut renoncer au theatre." "Que non pas," dit John: "je sais une tour qui vaut mieux." Il appela la servante. "Betty, nous avons perdu deux guinees: voyez donc si vous pouvez les retrouver." Betty se met a quatre pattes et cherche si bien qu'elle retrouve la piece. "Bonne fille," fait William: "quand vous trouverez l'autre, ...
— Collections and Recollections • George William Erskine Russell

... longsuffering with regard to their defects. Do not misinterpret my stopping at home for the present; there is not an atom of laziness or egoism in it—mats tout bien considere je dois faire ainsi, parceque cela vaut mieux pour vous—and I feel convinced that, later on, you ...
— Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt, Volume 2 • Francis Hueffer (translator)



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