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  • Quite interesting to see, coming out of your soil “plein de cailloux”, these pale pink single and double tulips.

    sarcler - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • The winery is called Cayuse, after a Native American people in the area, but there is also the double entendre with Barons native French, cailloux, which means rocks.

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

  • A huit ans, on regardait Captain Majed, Goldorac et Takaya Todoroki, on jouait au ballon à cache cache et aux sept cailloux.

    Maghreb Netizens Respond to 8 year-old Yemeni Girl's Petition for Divorce 2008

  • The winery is called Cayuse, after a Native American people in the area, but there is also the double entendre with Barons native French, cailloux, which means rocks.

    A Year of Wine Tyler Colman 2008

  • I groped my way back to the inn over the infernal cailloux, feeling like a discomfited Dogberry.

    Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 Various 1885

  • I groped my way back to the inn over the infernal _cailloux_, feeling like

    A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879

  • "_Non_, sacré petit pousse-cailloux du diable!" roars Barty.

    The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

  • -- D'ailleurs, par ce suffrage universel qu'on croit avoir et qu'on n'a pas, -- il faudrait _croire_ que les soldats doivent commander au général, les chevaux mener le cocher; -- _croire_ que deux radis valent mieux qu'une truffe, deux cailloux mieux qu'un diamant, deux crottins mieux qu'une rose.

    Our Fathers Have Told Us Part I. The Bible of Amiens John Ruskin 1859

  • Nos prières, nos cris restèrent sans réponses: Au milieu des cailloux, des épines, des ronces, Nous la vîmes monter, un bâton à la main, Et ce n'est qu'arrivée au terme du chemin, Qu'enfin elle tomba sans force et sans haleine ....

    The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • J Wilson, yours truly, et peuvent les cailloux nous protéger

    Conservapedia - Recent changes [en] Halliest 2010

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