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  • Sobbing hysterically I sank into the nearest silk bergere.

    where to land, where to land 2010

  • I discovered why one afternoon when everyone else was at siesta, and I was sitting meditating in the dim, stuffy little summer-house with Cleonie astride my lap going like a drunk jockey and humming "II etait une bergere"; when she'd panted her soul out, and I'd got a cheroot going, she suddenly says:

    Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

  • With my spine perfectly erect I rose from his precious bergere.

    where to land, where to land 2010

  • I grabbed the bergere by its weak arms and tried lifting it.

    where to land, where to land 2010

  • Mademoiselle Baptistine had also in her own room a very large easy-chair of wood, which had formerly been gilded, and which was covered with flowered pekin; but they had been obliged to hoist this bergere up to the first story through the window, as the staircase was too narrow; it could not, therefore, be reckoned among the possibilities in the way of furniture.

    Les Miserables 2008

  • How funny would it be to see someone with a bergere tattooed on their forearm!

    How much does this guy love chairs??? 2007

  • As easy as a shepherdess, which is what bergere means in French.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • As easy as a shepherdess, which is what bergere means in French.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • As easy as a shepherdess, which is what bergere means in French.

    Home Swell Home Cynthia Rowley 2002

  • I discovered why one afternoon when everyone else was at siesta, and I was sitting meditating in the dim, stuffy little summer-house with Cleonie astride my lap going like a drunk jockey and humming "II etait une bergere"; when she'd panted her soul out, and I'd got a cheroot going, she suddenly says:

    Flashman And The Redskins Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1982

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