Usage examples of "femme de petite vertu" in French with translation to English

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Un gratte-ciel est-il un objet de grande taille lointain ou un objet de petite taille vu de près ? Is a skyscraper a big thing far away or a small thing close up?
Aujourd'hui il n'est pas inhabituel pour une femme de voyager seule. Nowadays it is not unusual for a woman to travel alone.
Je ne porte pas de petite culotte. I am not wearing any underwear.
La femme de Tim a beaucoup insisté auprès de lui pour qu'il l'emmène à Paris. Tim's wife insisted on his taking her to Paris.
Elle était, contrairement à sa fille, de petite taille et son corps était gras sur les côtés. C'est comme si une tête humaine avait été attachée sur le corps d'un cochon. She was, unlike her daughter, of small stature and her body was fat on the sides. It was as if a human head had been fitted unto the body of a pig.
La bigamie, c'est avoir une femme de trop. Bigamy is when you have one wife too many.
Je ne suis pas un nain. Je suis une personne de petite taille ! I'm not a midget. I'm a dwarf!
Entre toi et moi, la femme de Kazuo est enceinte. It's just between you and me, but Kazuo's wife is pregnant.
Je n'ai pas de petite soeur. I don't have a younger sister.
Il dit à sa femme de ne pas acheter par impulsion. He told his wife not to buy on impulse.
Il n'a pas de petite amie. He has no girlfriend.
Il a rappelé à sa femme de le réveiller à 7 heures du matin. He reminded his wife to wake him up at 7:00 a.m.
Il s'est enfui avec la femme de son meilleur ami et on a plus entendu parler de lui depuis. He ran off with his best friend's wife and hasn't been heard from since.
La bigamie, c'est quand on a une femme de trop. Bigamy is when you have one wife too many.
La bigamie, c'est quand vous avez une femme de trop. Bigamy is when you have one wife too many.
Une femme de quarante ans n'est plus quelque chose que pour les hommes qui l'ont aimée dans sa jeunesse ! A forty-year-old woman is only something to the men who have loved her in her youth!
Ayant découvert la disparition de nombre de petits objets de la maison, je commence à penser que ma femme de maison a tendance à piquer. Having found a number of small items missing from my house, I'm starting to think that my housekeeper has sticky fingers.
Judy est la seule femme de cette assemblée. Judy is the only woman on the board.
La bigamie, c'est quand tu as une femme de trop. Bigamy is when you have one wife too many.
Elle est une femme de beauté singulière. She is a woman of singular beauty.
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