Debout *Mieux vaut goujat debout qu’empereur enterré = “A living dog is better than a dead lion.
Enterrer *Mieux vaut goujat debout qu’empereur enterré = A living dog is better than a dead lion.
When Merodach had finished eating he shook the crumbs from his napkin, and the kings fed themselves with two fingers, and when Merodach observed how painful and difficult this operation was, he praised God for having given thumbs to man.
De Gourmont's phrase to the contrary notwithstanding, the supreme test of a book is that we should feel some unusual intelligence working behind the words.
Debout portrays a young man with almost complete absence of the thigh and leg, from whose right hip there depended a foot.
Debout has reported a case of absence of the vulva in a woman of twenty upon whom he operated, which was the result of the fusion of the labia minora, and this with an enlarged clitoris gave the external appearance of an hermaphrodite.
The cry of that dying Frenchman calls to us, insistent and imperative: "Debout les americains.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "debout" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
