balai

Used in the library

• Prends le balai et balaie la cuisine.Take the broom and sweep the kitchen.A1Le grand ménage — The big clean
• Aussi, jetant son épieu loin de lui, et ordonnant à sa femme d’en faire autant de son manche à balai et à ses valets de leurs bâtons, il donna le premier l’exemple en se mettant lui-même à la recherche de la lettre perdue.So, throwing his spy away from him, and ordering his wife to make the same of his broom handle and his jacks of their sticks, he gave the first example by setting himself in search of the lost letter.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires
• Le jeune homme commença par chercher cette lettre avec une grande patience, tournant et retournant vingt fois ses poches et ses goussets, fouillant et refouillant dans son sac, ouvrant et refermant sa bourse; mais lorsqu’il eut acquis la conviction que la lettre était introuvable, il entra dans un troisième accès de rage, qui faillit lui occasionner une nouvelle consommation de vin et d’huile aromatisés: car, en voyant cette jeune mauvaise tête s’échauffer et menacer de tout casser dans l’établissement si l’on ne retrouvait pas sa lettre, l’hôte s’était déjà saisi d’un épieu, sa femme d’un manche à balai, et ses garçons des mêmes bâtons qui avaient servi la surveille.The young man began by seeking this letter with great patience, turning and turning twenty times his pockets and his clogs, searching and rebuking in his bag, opening and closing his purse; but when he had acquired the conviction that the letter was not found, he entered a third entrance of rage, which almost caused him a new consumption of wine and aromatized oil: for, seeing this poor young head warm up and threaten to break everything in the establishment if it was not found his letter, the host had already seized an epieu, his wife with a broom handle, and his boys with the same sticks that had served him.B2Les Trois Mousquetaires