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  • There, there, dry your eyes 'Ma petit chou-chou', someone else will come along.

    We'll always have Paris. Don Lewis 2007

  • There, there, dry your eyes 'Ma petit chou-chou', someone else will come along.

    Archive 2007-11-01 Don Lewis 2007

  • After prayers, Burton asked for “chou-chou;” she game him a paper-covered copy in two volumes of the Martyrdom of

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton 2003

  • “Madame says it will make you sleep, chou-chou,” said Goton, as she received back the emptied cup.

    Villette 2003

  • This kept the fire glowing and made the chou-chou sound that everybody knows and every baby imitates.

    Stories of Inventors The Adventures of Inventors and Engineers Russell Doubleday 1910

  • The Chinese held a chou-chou, during which the devil was exorcised and duly witnessed by several believers to take his flight in divers guises.

    Grammar. 1908

  • After prayers, Burton asked for "chou-chou;" she game him a paper-covered copy in two volumes of the Martyrdom of Madeline [FN#634] by Robert Buchanan, and he lay in bed reading it.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • Burton demurred, but the novels were ultimately sent for, they duly arrived, and Burton went through a course of "chou-chou," as he called it.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Wright, Thomas, 1859-1936 1906

  • After prayers, Burton asked for "chou-chou;" she game him a paper-covered copy in two volumes of the Martyrdom of

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

  • Burton demurred, but the novels were ultimately sent for, they duly arrived, and Burton went through a course of "chou-chou," as he called it.

    The Life of Sir Richard Burton Thomas Wright 1897

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