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Usage examples of "faute".
Quand ils rentreront a la maison, leurs meres liront leur faute sur leurs jambes, tandis que la candeur du petit Etienne reluira sur ses mollets roses.
Myrrour the fourme of his countenaunce and vysage: And if he amende suche fautes as he redeth here wherein he knoweth hymself gylty, and passe forth the resydue of his lyfe in the order of good maners than shall he haue the fruyte and auauntage wherto I haue translatyd this boke.
They open zoos, insane asylums, prisons, burst water mains with air hammers, chop the floor out of passenger plane lavatories, shoot out lighthouses, file elevator cables to one thin wire, turn sewers into the water supply, throw sharks and sting rays, electric eels and candiru into swimming pools (the candiru is a small eel-like fish or worm about one-quarter inch through and two inches long patronizing certain rivers of ill repute in the Greater Amazon Basin, will dart up your prick or your asshole or a woman's cunt faute de mieux, and hold himself there by sharp spines with precisely what motives is not known since no one has stepped forward to observe the candiru's life-cycle in sito), in nautical costumes ram the Queen Mary full speed into New York Harbor, play chicken with passenger planes and busses, rush into hospitals in white coats carrying saws and axes and scalpels three feet long.
But Belbo by now was an adept, and, like other adepts, not through enlightenment, but faute de mieux.
Finally she selected, faute de mieux, a dark-green wool that hung loosely from the yoke and could be belted to any diameter required.
That was faute de mieux, but gradually the administrating crowded out the engineering.
He said it was a matter of the greatest importance so, faute de mieux, I stopped.