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  • There are three distinct sections to Ravels Gaspard de la Nuit; Jace had played his way through the first when he got up from the piano, went into the kitchen, picked up Lukes phone, and made a single call.

    Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009

  • There are three distinct sections to Ravels Gaspard de la Nuit; Jace had played his way through the first when he got up from the piano, went into the kitchen, picked up Lukes phone, and made a single call.

    City of Ashes Cassandra Clare 2008

  • French troupe of Pantomimists, known as the Ravels.

    A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

  • Tony Denier, a pupil of the Ravels, and a quondam friend of Fox, next took Fox's place in the estimation of the American public.

    A History of Pantomime R. J. Broadbent

  • And with the Debussys and Magnards and Ravels, the d'Indys and Dukas and Schmitts, the Chaussons and Ropartz's and the Milhauds that followed immediately on César Franck, an institution like the

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • There were careless fun and easy jollity; there whole families would go at a moment's warning to hear this or that singer, but most of all, year after year, to see the Ravels -- a family of pantomimists and dancers upon earth and air, who have given innocent, thoughtless, side-shaking, brain-clearing pleasure to more Americans than ever relaxed their sad, silent faces for any other performers.

    Chapters of Opera Being historical and critical observations and records concerning the lyric drama in New York from its earliest days down to the present time Henry Edward Krehbiel 1888

  • I see the Ravels, French acrobats, dancers and pantomimists, as representing, for our culture, pure grace and charm and civility; so that one doubts whether any candid community was ever so much in debt to

    A Small Boy and Others Henry James 1879

  • The little river which flowed by the village had risen above its almost level banks, and could with difficulty be traversed at any point, while there was no permanent bridge, such as there was at Ravels.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • A stream of water, the Neethe, one of the tributaries of the Scheld, separated Ravels from Turnhout, and was crossed by a stone bridge.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

  • By nightfall the expedition had reached Ravels, at less than a league's distance from Turnhout, having accomplished, under the circumstances, a very remarkable march of over twenty miles.

    PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

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