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  • Les 47 parties restantes, après ces opérations, ne sont que des molécules bleues presque pures.

    The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe 2006

  • December 7th, 2008 at 5:30 pm www pures poker com says:

    Think Progress » Powell: ‘Staying the Course Isn’t Good Enough Because a Course Has to Have an End’ 2006

  • He went then and formally discharged the sham sentinels placed by the boy's orders and replaced them by the "simon pures."

    The Lincoln Story Book Henry Llewellyn Williams

  • Middle Pointed Structures; with a few of the pures; Late Pointed

    Notes and Queries, Number 49, October 5, 1850 Various

  • You have wilfully slandered one of de pures 'an' nobles 'men

    Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

  • He went then and formally discharged the sham sentinels placed by the boy's orders and replaced them by the “simon pures.”

    The Lincoln Story Book Williams, Henry L 1907

  • L '` Ame d'une jeune fille se payait des prix fous: les fleurs les plus belles et les plus pures sont les plus ch ` eres.

    The Countess Cathleen 1897

  • French was indeed the language; but had it been French in spirit she would (in spite of the growing Republican fashion) have said _vous_ to this "homme eclaire, de moeurs pures, a qui l'on ne peut reprocher que sa grande admiration pour les anciens aux depens des modernes qu'il meprise, et le faible de trop aimer a parler de lui."

    Essays Alice Christiana Thompson Meynell 1884

  • You have wilfully slandered one of de pures 'an' nobles 'men Gord ever made, an' nothin 'but yo' gray hyars protects you. '

    Marse Chan; A Tale of Old Virginia 1881

  • Yesterday she might still have hesitated about keeping the engagement she had signed with Schreiermeyer; but between yesterday and today there was her first rehearsal, there was the echo of that little round of real applause from fellow-artists, there was the sound of her own voice, high and true, singing 'Anges pures'; and there was the smell of the stage, with its indescribable attraction.

    Fair Margaret A Portrait Horace T. [Illustrator] Carpenter 1881

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