He pulled up the weeds and threw them away.
- Il arracha les mauvaises herbes et les jeta.
It never occurred to me to take a picture of how the garden looked before we started pulling weeds.
- Il ne m'est jamais venu à l'esprit de prendre une photo de ce que le jardin avait l'air, avant que nous ne commencions à arracher les mauvaises herbes.
Nor can the judicious reader be at a greater loss on account of Mrs Bridget Blifil, who, he may be assured, conducted herself through the whole season in which grief is to make its appearance on the outside of the body, with the strictest regard to all the rules of custom and decency, suiting the alterations of her countenance to the several alterations of her habit: for as this changed from weeds to black, from black to grey, from grey to white, so did her countenance change from dismal to sorrowful, from sorrowful to sad, and from sad to serious, till the day came in which she was allowed to return to her former serenity.