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  • He published Chants d'ombre in 1945, and the following year was elected Deputy from Senegal to the National Assembly on the Socialist ticket.

    Leopold Sedar Senghor greenintegerblog 2008

  • Mallarmé: la Lucidité et sa face d'ombre/sous la direction de Arlette Elkaïm-Sartre.

    Jean-Paul Sartre - Bibliography 1964

  • The first time I read of _une bouche d'ombre_ I was astonished, nor the second nor third repetition produced a change in my mood of mind; but sooner or later it was impossible to avoid conviction, that of the two "the rosy fingers of the dawn," although some three thousand years older was younger, truer, and more beautiful.

    Confessions of a Young Man 1892

  • Jarni! ch'dame, n'savons joui d 'n'belle s'rée -- n'fam-partie d'ombre.

    London Pride Or When the World Was Younger 1875

  • _une bouche d'ombre_ was old the first time it was said.

    Confessions of a Young Man 1892

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