Sentence examples of "peine de mort" in French
Je venais à peine de rentrer dans mon bain quand le téléphone sonna.
I had hardly got into the bath when the phone rang.
J'étais confus de l'entendre ainsi parler de mort, alors que, selon toutes les apparences, elle semblait aussi bien portante qu'on ne l'ait jamais vue.
I wondered to hear her talking of death, when, to all appearance, she seemed as well as we had ever seen her.
C'était, pour ainsi dire, un problème de vie ou de mort.
It is, as it were, a life and death problem.
Je venais à peine de m'endormir quand le téléphone a sonné.
I had hardly fallen asleep when the telephone rang.
Cet homme n'a même pas pris la peine de s'excuser de m'avoir marché sur le pied.
The man did not so much as apologize for stepping on my foot.
La vie est un éclair, la beauté dure un jour ! Songe aux têtes de mort qui se ressemblent toutes.
Life is but a flash of lightning, beauty lasts for a single day! Think about the skulls of the dead that are all alike.
Ne prenez pas la peine de me réveiller à quatre heures du matin. Je ne prévois pas d'aller pêcher demain.
Don't bother waking me up at 4:00 a.m. I don't plan to go fishing tomorrow.
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