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WV: crible -- too many hours with Aperture science puzzles.
A Womb with a View 2009
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Here's a quote from Yves Duhoux on pages 223 of L'étéocrétois (1982) talking about Gordon's views and his poor grasp of linguistic methodology despite university education: "L'hypothèse sémitique ne nous paraît, dès lors, pas moins (ni plus) respectable que toute autre - mais elle doit, comme les autres, passer au crible de la critique (ceci deviendrait, sous la plume de GORDON 1975, p.158: 'blind denial is no more scientific than blind acceptance')."
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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Here's a quote from Yves Duhoux on pages 223 of L'étéocrétois (1982) talking about Gordon's views and his poor grasp of linguistic methodology despite university education: "L'hypothèse sémitique ne nous paraît, dès lors, pas moins (ni plus) respectable que toute autre - mais elle doit, comme les autres, passer au crible de la critique (ceci deviendrait, sous la plume de GORDON 1975, p.158: 'blind denial is no more scientific than blind acceptance')."
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Moreover, the crible continue à grilles filtrantes, the invention of MM.
The Land of Midian 2003
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Son corps percé comme un crible, verse un grand ruisseau de sang.
Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois George Chapman
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C'est un feu roulant qui crible le sanctuaire de toutes parts ...
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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C'est un feu roulant qui crible le sanctuaire de toutes parts ...
Baron d'Holbach Cushing, Max Person 1914
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Moreover, the crible continue à grilles filtrantes, the invention of MM.
The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855
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This man, crible de dettes, as he told me, and daily compelled to adopt the most extravagant methods for a bare subsistence, had repeatedly approached me with adventurous schemes for the exploitation of my notorious fiasco.
My Life — Volume 2 Richard Wagner 1848
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Similarly, also the only Virelay …, Un crible plein d’eaue – A Dieu vos comant, owes much to the motet.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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