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  • Crowds rushed to the Namur gate, from which direction the noise proceeded, and many rode along the level chaussee, to be in advance of any intelligence from the army.

    Vanity Fair 2006

  • Quatre Bras, and then to march down the chaussee upon Bry in order effectually to separate the two armies.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Upon Zieten's abandoning, in the course of his retreat, the chaussee which leads to Brussels through Quatre Bras, Marshal Ney, who had only just been put in command on the left of the French army, was ordered to advance by this road upon Gosselies, and found at Frasnes part of the

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • Cherbourg or Havre and takes the train across Normandy to Pontorson, where, with the evening light, the tourists drive along the chaussee, over the sands or through the tide, till they stop at

    Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres Henry Adams 1878

  • She has exquisite feet and hands, is always bien chaussee et bien gantee and can talk brilliantly upon any subject, provided that she knows nothing about it.

    Miscellanies Oscar Wilde 1877

  • 'You may see it all before you,' he said, 'straight as the Seine chaussee from the hill of La Roche Guyon.'

    One of Our Conquerors — Volume 1 George Meredith 1868

  • 'You may see it all before you,' he said, 'straight as the Seine chaussee from the hill of La Roche Guyon.'

    One of Our Conquerors — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • 'You may see it all before you,' he said, 'straight as the Seine chaussee from the hill of La Roche Guyon.'

    Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868

  • "I'm sure Missis wouldn't like to live there;" observed Elizabeth, eyeing uneasily the gloomy rez de-chaussee, familiar to many a generation of struggling respectability, where, in the decadence of the season, every second house bore the announcement "apartments furnished."

    Mistress and Maid. A Household Story. 1864

  • After a day's journey over bad roads, they were glad to find themselves once more on the chaussee.

    Memoir and Diary of John Yeardley Yeardley, John, 1786-1858 1860

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