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It happened to me the same with "passage d'enfer", I loved it when I bought it, then I didn't smell anything no encense, no lily, now I can appreciate it anew, but it tood me one month !
Fracas Ayala Sender 2008
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And our gallant regiments burst through the _feu d'enfer_.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various
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After supper dancing was resumed with increased animation, and the ball terminated with a _chaîne diabolique_ and a _cancan d'enfer_ at seven in the morning.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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Crimea, for every child knows by heart the tale of the clambering fight up the Alma's steeps, of the withering volley that suddenly crashed out of the gray twilight on the hill of Inkerman, of the long months of starvation, of the final _feu d'enfer_, beneath which the Russian host crowded over the narrow bridge that saved them from their foe.
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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In fact, so far as mere argument goes, they have been subjected to such a _feu d'enfer_ that it is a miracle if any have escaped.
Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American Various
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Our little red salon, with its "feu d'enfer," as Jean, our attendant, called our generous fire, opened to some interesting people.
Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911
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Fargeau, who declared that he and Duchesne were ready for anything, the nearer the real "bouche d'enfer" the better; that the following Thursday they would both be off duty for the night, and that on that day they would join in an attempt to outwit the devil and clear up the mystery of
Black Spirits and White A Book of Ghost Stories Ralph Adams Cram 1902
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Longe-aigue, on the contrary, is lost in a gulf of such horror that the people call the mill which stands on its edge the _Moulin d'enfer_.
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The heavy booming of the great guns, the bright flash each time they fired, and the shells with their lighted fusees rushing through the air, and bursting over the Prussian lines, realised what the French call a "feu d'enfer."
Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris Henry Labouchere 1871
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Munzil, on the top of which there was hoisted the British flag in the face of a _feu d'enfer_, is now a seminary for the daughters of Europeans.
Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869
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