cast
/kæst/ adjectif C2En français : renversé, couché sur le dos
- Of an animal, such as a horse or sheep: Lying in a position from which it cannot rise on its own.
Verbes à particule et expressions
- cast about To try to find; look around; search.
- cast around To cast about.
- cast aside Synonym of discard.
- cast away To discard.
- cast back To think about or imagine to a time in the past; to searc...
- cast down To make (a person) discouraged or dejected.
- cast off abandonner, larguer les amarres, fermer
- cast on monter des mailles
- cast out chasser, expulser
- cast over To ponder; to consider or think about.
- cast up To wash something onto the shore.
Dans la bibliothèque
All the delicacies, in fact, that are cast up by the wash of waters on the sandy beach, and styled by the grateful fishermen “fruits of the sea.”
As Danglars approached the disappointed lover, he cast on him a look of deep meaning, while Fernand, as he slowly paced behind the happy pair, who seemed, in their own unmixed content, to have entirely forgotten that such a being as himself existed, was pale and abstracted; occasionally, however, a deep flush would overspread his countenance, and a nervous contraction distort his features, while, with an agitated and restless gaze, he would glance in the direction of Marseilles, like one who either anticipated or foresaw some great and important event.
One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: “If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy.”
Villefort traversed the antechamber, cast a side glance at Dantès, and taking a packet which a gendarme offered him, disappeared, saying, “Bring in the prisoner.”
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