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  • He had not been in Waukegan the past century but he found a middle-priced autel without drawing attention by asking questions, dialed its registration board for a standard suite and settled down for seven hours of sound sleep.

    The Past Through Tomorrow Heinlein, Robert A. 1967

  • He had not been in Waukegan the past century but he found a middle-priced autel without drawing attention by asking questions, dialed its registration board for a standard suite and settled down for seven hours of sound sleep.

    Methuselah's Children Heinlein, Robert A. 1958

  • "Maman, si nous envoyions à mon curé un autel por-ta-tif?"

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 14, 1917 Various

  • Round the "autel des anges," richest of them all, is a row of eighteen niches, filled in with the figures of angels, holding alternately phylacteries and escutcheons; round the top is a cornice of thistle-leaves — on the cut stalk of one hangs a dew-drop perfect to nature.

    Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

  • Diable plante sa chaire tout vis à vis du grand autel où on met le

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • Et y avoit grant quantite de pelerins par chacun jour pour ce que c'est le premier autel qui onques fust fait en l'onneur de la Mere de Dieu ainsi qu'on disoit lors.

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • Et advint par ung jour qu'il fut amene a icelui autel de nostre Dame de

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • Ce matin nous étions tous heureux près de cet autel.

    Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, Volume 2 Robert Ornsby 1854

  • Deux ans après cette découverte, comme il alloit à Michillimackinack, il entra le 18me de May, 1675, dans la rivière dont il s'agit; il dressa son autel sur le terrein bas, qu'on lassia à droite en y entrant, et il y dit la messe.

    The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2) George Warburton 1836

  • At twelve o'clock the crowd assembled round the "altar of the country" (_autel de la patrie_), not seeing the commissioners of the Jacobin club, who had promised to bring the petition to be signed, of their own accord chose four commissioners of their number to draw up one.

    History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution Alphonse de Lamartine 1829

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