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  • noun Plural form of echelle.

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  • Half the world's greatest poetry is simply 'Les echelles noires manquent de vessie,' translated into magic significance as, 'Black ladders lack bladders.'

    Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

  • I chosen to formulate it in such words as 'Black fire-escapes have no bladders,' or, 'Les echelles noires manquent de vessie.'

    Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

  • A self-evident truth, one on which it would not have been worth while to insist, had I chosen to formulate it in such words as 'Black fire-escapes have no bladders,' or, 'Les echelles noires manquent de vessie.'

    Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921

  • Half the world's greatest poetry is simply 'Les echelles noires manquent de vessie,' translated into magic significance as, 'Black ladders lack bladders.'

    Crome Yellow Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1921

  • Analyse comparative de deux echelles de mesure du leadership d'opinion.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • Analyse comparative de deux echelles de mesure du leadership d'opinion.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

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