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The neighbors who, at night, when some one lay drunk in the street, moaning and groaning in that typical French ivresse that you were propaganded to believe did not exist, would open their windows and then the murmur of talk.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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The neighbors who, at night, when some one lay drunk in the street, moaning and groaning in that typical French ivresse that you were propaganded to believe did not exist, would open their windows and then the murmur of talk.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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The neighbors who, at night, when some one lay drunk in the street, moaning and groaning in that typical French ivresse that you were propaganded to believe did not exist, would open their windows and then the murmur of talk.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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The neighbors who, at night, when some one lay drunk in the street, moaning and groaning in that typical French ivresse that you were propaganded to believe did not exist, would open their windows and then the murmur of talk.
The Short Stories Ernest Hemingway 1953
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Admiral Keppell spoke, and so did Sir E. Dering, drunk, sicut suus mos est; but he says in that ivresse des verites vertes et piquantes.
George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue
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Je rougirais de men ivresse Si tu conservais ta raison!
The Fighting Chance 1899
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Admiral Keppell spoke, and so did Sir E. Dering, drunk, sicut suus mos est; but he says in that ivresse des verites vertes et piquantes.
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According to Feneuille, spigeline is bitter, nauseant, and purgative, and produces a sort of intoxication (ivresse).
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_Reasonableness_, instead of French _ivresse_, or even Shakespearian
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing John Ruskin 1859
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Love -- you observe, the highest _Reasonableness_, instead of French _ivresse_, or even
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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