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  • Yesterday was Chandeleur fête des chandelles in France, a date on the Christian calendar which translates as Candlemas in English.

    power, corruption and lies 2005

  • Yesterday was Chandeleur fête des chandelles in France, a date on the Christian calendar which translates as Candlemas in English.

    la fête du nutella 2005

  • For the next twenty minutes, Marty had the massive four-engine bomber performing a circus act of aerial acrobatics, putting it through spins and loops and chandelles with flawless precision—all for the sheer joy of it.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • For the next twenty minutes, Marty had the massive four-engine bomber performing a circus act of aerial acrobatics, putting it through spins and loops and chandelles with flawless precision—all for the sheer joy of it.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • For the next twenty minutes, Marty had the massive four-engine bomber performing a circus act of aerial acrobatics, putting it through spins and loops and chandelles with flawless precision—all for the sheer joy of it.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • For the next twenty minutes, Marty had the massive four-engine bomber performing a circus act of aerial acrobatics, putting it through spins and loops and chandelles with flawless precision—all for the sheer joy of it.

    Silver Wings, Santiago Blue Janet Dailey 1984

  • The planes were attached to the body proper by rigid flanges, reinforced by wires running from tip to tip of the planes, passing directly over the body, and not elevated on bracing chandelles.

    On the Edge of the Arctic or, An Aeroplane in Snowland

  • Je ne fus pas peu surpris, en entrant dans cette chambre, de voir sur une table deux chandelles, qui bruloient dans des flambeaux de cuivre, et deux couverts assez propres.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

  • Satan ... ils luy offrent des chandelles, & le baisent aux parties honteuses de derriere.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • Mais le commun est qu'il a seulement trois cornes, & qu'il a quelque espece de lumiere en celle du milieu, de laquelle il a accoustumé au sabbat d'esclairer, & donner du feu & de la lumiere, mesmes à ces Sorcieres qui tiennent quelques chandelles alumees aux ceremonies de la Messe qu'ils veulent contrefaire.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

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