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The Bold will indeed autoconnect to AT&T WiFi hotspots…unless your BES administrator diables it via a policy.
Free AT&T WiFi: not just for iPhones anymore « Boy Genius Report 2008
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This can hardly be said of the Early Christians who, with the exception of a few staunch-hearted martyrs, appear in history as pauvres diables and poules mouillées, ever oppressed by their own most ignorant and harmful fancy that the world was about to end.
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But it is no secret that on the staff of that journal the translator of Villon has sundry enemies, vrais diables enjupponés, who take every opportunity of girding at him because he does not belong to the clique and because he does good work when theirs is mostly sham.
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It would have done your heart good to hear the dear rascal swear Mort de ma vie! and to see him stamp his little foot, and send the manants and canaille of the domestics to the trente mille diables.
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GOOD-NATURED FELLOWS, and the French, bons diables.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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The school had two parties: the _sages_ or good girls, and the _diables_, their opposites.
Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas
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"Voilà le vent, le tourbillon, l'ouragan, les diables dechaînés qui veulent emporter votre château; quel ébranlement universel! quelle furie! quelle frayeur répandue partout!"
Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes
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"_Il semble qu 'on soit dans un enfer, et que ce soient tout autant de diables déchainès_."
The Ceremonies of the Holy-Week at Rome Charles Michael Baggs
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But the charm that held together the confraternity of _diables_ was a grand, long-cherished design, to which their best energy and ingenuity were devoted -- a secret, heroic-sounding enterprise, set forth as "the deliverance of the victim."
Famous Women: George Sand Bertha Thomas
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Ce sont les _Lettres philosophiques_ traduites, ou supposees traduites, de l'anglais de Toland; c'est _l'Examen des propheties_; c'est la _Vie de David ou de l'homme selon la coeur de Dieu_, ce sont melle diables dechaines.
Baron D'Holbach : a Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France Max Pearson Cushing 1918
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