Sentences with phrase «ne sont»

The commonly accepted explanation for the word «zydeco» is that it comes from the old Creole adage, «Les haricots ne sont pas sales,» meaning literally «the beans aren't salty,» a lamentation that times are hard when you can't even have salt for your beans.

Not exact matches

Robespierre's address to the Commune of Paris at the convention of 1793 evidences that his Supreme Being also had this same character: «L'homme pervers se croit sans cesse environné d'un témoin puissant et terrible anquel il ne peut échapper, qui le voit et le veille, tandis que les hommes sont livrés au sommeil...» (F. A. Aulard, Le Culte de la raison et le culte de l'Être Supreme (Paris, 1892), pp. 285 f.) How can one isolate this «structure» and separate it from its biblical antecedents, when — to cite only one of the many passages — one can read in the book of Isaiah (29:15): «Woe to those who hide deep from the Lord their counsel, whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, «Who sees us?