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  • Basically parliamentary government, as the word parliament from the French verb "parler", implies, is government by debate, by organized discussion pro and con, leading to decision.

    The House of Commons from the Speaker's Chair 1958

  • In fact it got so far that she gave grandma notice, and announced her intention of going to a married sister's home for that process known as "getting her things ready," while Larry, in keeping up his end of the stick, bought a neat cottage and began furnishing it in the style approved by his circle, with bright linoleum on the floors, plush chairs in the "parler," and china ornaments on the overmantels.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • It being hot, the ladies retired to doff their hats ere partaking of afternoon tea, and Dawn took her father's hat while he trumpeted in his handkerchief and attempted a few commonplace platitudes from the biggest and stiffest arm-chair in the "parler," into which he had subsided.

    Some Everyday Folk and Dawn Miles Franklin 1916

  • The shooting ceased and a voice called out from the woods, asking, “Voulez-vous parler?”

    George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

  • Tu sai che noi "del cinema" siamo molto superstiziosi ... ti parler dei miei prossimi lavori subito dopo averli realizzati.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • Français · Koweït: Les tagueurs koweïtiens font parler d'eux

    Global Voices in English » Kuwait: Is Graffiti Art or Vandalism? 2009

  • Français · Afrique: Le Président Obama utilise les nouveaux médias pour parler aux Africains

    Global Voices in English » Africa: Obama uses new media to talk to Africans 2009

  • Ensuite, pendant la rediffusion de la vidéo, les joueurs pourraient se reposer et se parler.

    retirer - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • "James Murdoch has an obsession with the environment and climate change, and that was the one thing on which they could parler" says a former News International figure.

    Now the charm offensive begins James Robinson 2010

  • Saviez-vous parler français pour le reste de la semaine?

    Oh How We Laughed……But Not Too Loudly. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG Inspector Gadget 2010

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