Sentence examples of "bird of passage" in English
If I had been a bird, I could have flown to you.
Si j'avais été un oiseau, j'aurais pu voler jusqu'à toi.
No bird soars too high if he soars with his own wings.
L'oiseau ne vole jamais trop haut, qui vole de ses propres ailes.
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunderstorm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
Le temps n'a aucune division qui marque son passage, il n'y a jamais de tempête ni d'éclat des trompettes pour annoncer le début d'un nouveau mois ou d'une nouvelle année. Même lorsqu'un siècle commence, ce ne sont que nous, mortels, qui faisons sonner les cloches et envoyons des salves de fusils.
The following passage is a quotation from a well-known fable.
Le passage suivant est une citation d'une célèbre fable.
I cannot understand this passage from the Bible for the life of me.
Je ne peux absolument pas comprendre ce passage de la Bible.
No need to be able to fly to catch a bird.
Point n'est besoin de savoir voler pour capturer un oiseau.
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