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It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights of
Les Miserables 2008
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I told the madame, and she sent the doorkeep out at once to seize the body, and sold it to a doctor in the next arondissement.
A Breath of Snow and Ashes Gabaldon, Diana 2005
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It contains the greatest publisher in the world, the most notable department store baron (and inventor of that new form of literary essay, the department store ad.), the most fragrant gas tanks in the Department of the East, the greatest number of cinders per eye of any arondissement served by the R---- railway, and the most bitterly afflicted hay fever sufferer on this sneezing sphere.
Shandygaff Christopher Morley 1923
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Etienne is the head of the arondissement of the same name and the capital town of the department of the Loire.
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It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections.
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It appears that this list was the complete nomenclature of the sections of the fourth arondissement of the Society of the Rights of Man, with the names and dwellings of the chiefs of sections.
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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It is also true that they pretend that the soil, in the department of Calvados, contains _coal_; but the experiments which were made some years ago at _Littry_, in the arondissement of _Bayeux_, should forbid the
A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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Plateau-Mont royal arondissement is initiating broader urban design changes to reduce the impact of commuter-based traffic on neighborhood streets, including a proposal to reduce the width of a street in a six block section to about 12 feet from more than 45 feet.
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Paris's 16th arondissement, home to the Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Elysees, embraced the opening of the new Villa
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Paris's 16th arondissement, home to the Arc de Triomphe and Champs-Elysees, embraced the opening of the new Villa
chained_bear commented on the word arondissement
I probably spelled this wrong.
April 1, 2008