For his light composition, Les Petits Riens, the music was by Mozart.
Petits battements, it should be added, are usually employed in a sequence of several in succession.
Her entrechat was almost the only step that raised both her feet distinctly off the floor; it, with petits battements, gave brilliancy but nothing of grandeur.
During the Revolution the connection between the Bourse and Heaven was even closer, for the church of the Petits Peres was then set apart for Exchange purposes.
Paul and Mrs. Paul get up at twelve, and they loiter over breakfast; some friends come in and they loiter over lespetits verres.
The face was thinner, but I recognised the red hair and the brown eyes, small eyes set closely, reminding one of des petits verres de cognac.
He believes in naturalism all the day, particularly after a breakfast over les petits verres.
What would my poor dear mistress, la Marquise, say, if she only knew how mespetits talents were employed?
Petits diners" have, generally, the prerogative of agreeability; they are the chosen reunions of a few intimates, who would not dilute their pleasantry even by a single bore.
His Le Drageoir aux Epices is a continuation of Petits Poèmes en Prose.
Rod, after admitting the wide influence of Stendhal upon the generations that followed him, patronisingly concludes by a quotation: "Les petits livres ont leurs destinées.
The scene of the story was now transferred to Lourdes, to the Rue des Petits Fosses, a narrow, tortuous, mournful street taking a downward course between humble houses and roughly plastered dead walls.
One of these was the new fashion of petits appartements.
Come, then, give us "Les Petits Soldats," we will listen quietly to the very end.
Among scores of these petits menages exist peace, happiness and fidelity.
I could not tell her of the petits pieds si adorés.
It has survived in modern French terminology in salés more specially petits salés--small rashers of bacon.
The French have another term for this--petits salés.
Their Shoes are Seamen-like, or, with Reverence be it spoken, such as are now worn by the French Petits Maitres.
What could these things then have been in the various native climes of the petits pays chauds?
Queer for us the whole affair, assuredly; but how much queerer for the poor petits pays chauds who had come so far for their privilege.
Through the Faubourg, past Porte St. Martin, to the Rue Richelieu, to the Passage des Petits Peres, he walks in the wintry night.
Officially, therefore, his residence was still in the Passage desPetits Peres.
Now and then they rebel against their constitutions, poor fellows, and try to imitate the jovial ancestors they have read of; babble shrilly of noctes coenaeque Deum, petits soupers, and what not.
Petits soupers are impossible in this part of the world.
Ordinarily no refreshments were given: one conscientious lady, however, told her friends that her surplus card-money enabled her to treat them with ices and petits gateaux.
From the southern end of the terrace is seen the orangery below, sheltered from the north by the terrace, and the southern end of the central part of the palace; and from the east by that wing in which are the petits appartements.
Here you may find petits gateaux and eau de groseille, to allay both hunger and thirst; and chairs, for a sous a-piece, to repose while you refresh yourself.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "petits" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
