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  • The vowel sound of the word peur is not distinguished from the close sound in peu.

    Frederic Mistral Downer, Charles A 1901

  • "peur" culturelle à plonger dans l'univers du Net.

    Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

  • Français · Chine: Un Internet à visage ouvert fait peur

    Global Voices in English » China: The fear implied in a real-name internet 2009

  • Except for a handful of Goldwater libertarians, every conservative Republican in Congress in 1964 voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act, including, for instance, Rep. John Ashbrook, than whom no right-wing legislator was ever more sans peur et sans reproche.

    Bill Buckley and “the Dark People” 2009

  • - Gueule-de-loup = Snapdragon (veut dire visages de loups) je voulais dire que ces fleurs aux noms négatifs devraient plutôt inspirer la suspicion et un peu de peur à Smokey mais lui, qui est très poétique, ne voit que l'aspect positif des fleurs: leur finesse, délicatesse et senteur, ce qui le fait rêver et non cauchemarder.

    vivace - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • Français · Chine: Le droit de ne pas avoir peur polski · Chiny: prawo do życia bez strachu

    Global Voices in English » China: Our right to be spared from fear 2009

  • Except for a handful of Goldwater libertarians, every conservative Republican in Congress in 1964 voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act, including, for instance, Rep. John Ashbrook, than whom no right-wing legislator was ever more sans peur et sans reproche.

    Stromata Blog: 2009

  • Except for a handful of Goldwater libertarians, every conservative Republican in Congress in 1964 voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act, including, for instance, Rep. John Ashbrook, than whom no right-wing legislator was ever more sans peur et sans reproche.

    History 2010

  • His existential thriller "The Wages of Fear" "Le salaire de la peur," 1953, about a quartet of underemployed men in Brazil hired to transport nitroglycerin, also contains moments of shiver-inducing realism.

    A French Director Ripe for Rediscovery Kristin M. Jones 2011

  • You are only as old as you feel, true some days I feel truly ancien - other days I could dance til dawn. ne laissez pas la peur ou le sens commun des nuages de votre jugement - not quite sure of the translation; - D

    gradins - French Word-A-Day 2009

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