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Commodore Leloup (the 'Ram Chunder,' S.E. by E., is represented engaged with the 'Mirliton' corvette); "" The 'Ram Chunder' standing into the
The Christmas Books of Mr. M.A. Titmarsh William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Mr. Caswell's Mirliton Pie delivers the Tex-Mex flavors of the meat-heavy sports-bar menu favorite, but is peppered with dashes of complexity.
The Tailgaters' Favorite Gone Frou-Frou Charlotte Druckman 2012
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The second act roils with affectionately witty international caricatures, like the foursome of dancers representing France who swan on to the perky flutes of the Mirliton dance.
'Hard Nut' a holiday chestnut, joyously cracked and spiced Sarah Kaufman 2010
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Chayote or Mirliton Chayote is the squash that seems least like a squash.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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Chayote or Mirliton Chayote is the squash that seems least like a squash.
On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen Harold McGee 2004
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The plan, known as Operation Mirliton, was the culmination of combined planning and resources of local government, the police, defence force, the Independent Electoral Commission and various other roleplayers, Bester said.
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His allusions to Mirliton and to the Bishop frequently mystified Madame Novikoff's guests.
Biographical Study of A W Kinglake Tuckwell, Rev W 1902
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Fifteenth Century fireplace, and its brasses and tapestries on the walls, and if the huge _Mirliton_ hanging from the ceiling was not remarkable as a work of art, it should now, as historic symbol of the Nineties, have a place at the _Carnavalet_ by the side of the sign of the _Chat Noir_.
Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895
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Following the example of Mademoiselle Miss in the story, unless it was she who was following ours, we finished the evening which had begun at the _Mirliton_ by eating supper at the _Rat Mort_.
Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895
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It simply meant that he did not hold to the hail-fellow-well-met free-and-easiness which was the pose of Salis at the _Chat Noir_, but, at the _Mirliton_, was all for ceremony and dramatic effect.
Nights Rome, Venice, in the Aesthetic Eighties; London, Paris, in the Fighting Nineties Elizabeth Robins Pennell 1895
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