French poet, 1960 Nobelist

Usage examples of leger.

Quelle fete pour ses yeux que cette eclosion du printemps, si superbe dans cette humilite de petites plantes mouillees de rosee, et combien le leger parfum que degageait leur floraison evoquait en lui de souvenirs restes vivants!

Leger into making you my lieutenant, and giving you the custody of a right pleasant hermitage--some castle Shackatory or other in the midst of a big bog, where time will run swift and smooth with you, between hunting wild Irish, snaring snipes, and drinking yourself drunk with usquebaugh over a turf fire.

De meeste kunst en zorg wordt vereischt voor het gereed maken van de eigenlijke woning, die zijn leger bevat.

Leger holdings, Lance had never dared set foot on Mortmain land during his boyhood.

Leger against Mortmain, condemned by some ancient feud to duel to the death, throughout all time.

Barizel le coeur leger, plein de confiance, ne pensant plus aux mauvaises paroles de Mautravers.

So he could not lose, so long as the pawns did what they were supposed to do, and one of those pawns was Major Henri Dulong, the second in command of the 31st Leger, one of the crack French light infantry units in Portugal.

Major Dulong of the 31st Leger, the new Legion d'Honneur medal still bright on his chest, volunteered to lead the Forlorn Hope.

This is a story that begins and ends on bridges and the twin tales of how Major Dulong of the 31st Leger captured the Ponte Nova and then the Saltador are true.

Gira legera, sotile al suono, al suono del'onde del mar And indeed in the distance came the sound of the sea, and Pelagia waltzed satirically about the hue, pirouetting and giggling, throwing pouts at him to burlesque the military whores she had seen so often, making faces and blowing kisses at the men as they rattled by in their truck.