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- noun Plural form of
Gaul .
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With those words, the world of Asterix and the rest of the Gauls is unleashed upon the reader.
Retro Review: Asterix The Gaul | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Interestingly, from my Carnutic Gaul I learned that once away from the Middle Sea and into Long-haired Gaul, the second language among the Gauls is Latin, not Greek!
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
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Caesar [Commentaries on the Gallic War, 4,5], "The infirmity of the Gauls is that they are fickle in their resolves and fond of change, and not to be trusted."
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They were not burning and slaying indiscriminately, but while despising the Romans, as they called the Gauls, for their cowardice, they were in awe of the superior civilization and the knowledge of arts.
A Book of Golden Deeds Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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The one to the Gauls was the same as those that had been read out earlier.
CONSPIRATA ROBERT HARRIS 2010
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Cæsar, Agatius, and others say, that of all the barbarians the Gauls were the most polished.
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Britons of Armoric Letha -- and Calphurn, son of Potit, Patrick's father, and her mother Conceis, daughter of Ocbas of the Gauls, that is of the
Bolougne-Sur-Mer St. Patrick's Native Town William Fleming
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Severe justice is the only condition on which French supremacy can be maintained in the country, and probably for the general Arab populace the rule of the Gauls is a judicious one.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 Various
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The people whom Sallust here calls Gauls (_Galli_) are the Cimbri and Teutones, German tribes coming from the countries about the Elbe.
C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust
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The inhabitants of the Northern lands were called Gauls by the Romans.
The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic Arthur Gilman
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