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How to use petit in a sentence

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Doctors dispelled the depression as an extensive form of epilepsy, petit mal.
They are as different from the fat autumn turnips as petit pois are from marrowfat peas.
A petit flan of onion formed an island in a lake of light, frothy green-pea potage, topped with fresh broad beans, mangetouts and more peas.
Low tea is the tea in which crustless sandwiches, petit fours, and salmon roulades are likely to be served.
I myself had pediatric petit mal epilepsy, and when I had my first long lasting seizure it was actually pretty undramatic.
We're not too sure whether James had a petit mal seizure,, on the bus on the way home from his post school option program.
Nocturnal seizures can be grand mal, petit mal, partial-complex, vegetative or paroxysmal nocturnal dystonias.
I enjoyed the hot chocolate fondant with stem ginger ice-cream and my petit fours were a delight.
The rare but flavoursome petit verdot grape is becoming fashionable in Bordeaux where it is used to give top clarets the edge.
It gets swelteringly hot here in Paris in my petit kitchen, and it's too darn uncomfortable if I wear too much.
On seeing it, I thought that it might have been a petit mal epileptic seizure, but the reports seem to rule that out.
The terms seizure and convulsion include grand mal, petit mal, absence, myoclonic, tonic-clonic, and focal motor seizures and signs.
The genre is traceable to The Diary of a Nobody, in which the brothers Grossmith introduced Charles Pooter, the epitome of the petit bourgeois.
The Left in Britain then believed deeply that personal ambition was a petit bourgeois vice to be despised.
He has also been accused of the petit crime of stealing and eating pies from the inn's pantry.
She had roast cod fillet for her main course, which was served with champ potato and petit pois.
The original is surely a vast Gobelin tapestry, not a row of petit point cushions?
Her strengths shone through in this Coppelia, with its lightning petit allegro segments and pointe solos.
The petit fours are little globs of chocolatey butter and jolly fine for all that.
Her shirt clung to her petit frame, causing the skin to prickle and become clammy.
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Examples from Classical Literature
The petit mal most commonly co-exists with the grand mal, but has no necessary connexion with it, as each may exist alone.
There were no jarring notes or lavish, tawdry display, the pitfalls into which the parvenue and petit bourgeois invariably fall.
The Indictments being found, a petit jury was sworn, and the following Persons arraigned and tried.
He is the petit bourgeois, the picier, the class which the world ridicules.
The part of husband and father struck them as unpleasant and too petit bourgeois.
The cabanon is really the maison de campagne of the petit bourgeois of the cities and towns.
Will madame be so good to enter our petit salon at the front, n'est-ce-pas?
It is their nave and faithful representation of the life of the Parisian petit bourgeois that seems to Brne so admirable.
To think that you, a watchmaker and a petit bourgeois, should experience what many a saint has died without realizing!
The organisation has its finger on every Grand Jury, every petit jury, every judge.
The jury by which issues of fact are tried, as distinguished from a grand jury, is called a petty or petit jury.
At an adjourned meeting held Jan. 20, 1858, the commissioners drew a grand and petit jury.
If the cause comes to trial, the petit jury may exercise a dispensing power by means of a general verdict.
Attacks of petit mal might come on at any time, and were usually accompanied by a feeling of faintness and vertigo.
These cases are to be distributed between the developed form and the petit mal.
It is revealed also by symptoms of a less striking nature, which have been described under the name of petit mal.
A mild type of petit mal consists of a temporary blurring of consciousness, with muscular weakness.
Though this petit djeuner was very recherch, the bouillabaisse threw all the accessory dishes into the shade.
Do let me hear, by first post, how cher petit Monsieur comes on with his small-pox.
And what blague, what calling for coffee pour le petit Whistler, pour notre petit Amricain!
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