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  • So as to retemper myself in something stronger, I reread the great, the most holy, the incomparable Aristophanes.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters 2003

  • It was wished to retemper for him the sword of the constable Duguesclin; and it was hoped that a statue erected to his honour would at once attest to posterity his spotless glory and the gratitude of the Bourbons.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

  • So as to retemper myself in something stronger, I reread the great, the most holy, the incomparable Aristophanes.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

  • The first time I broke a helve Agathemer had no substitute ready, and, what was more, the fragment of the old helve was in so tight that he had to burn it out in the fire and then retemper and resharpen our one precious axe-head.

    Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900

  • So as to retemper myself in something stronger, I reread the great, the most holy, the incomparable Aristophanes.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Gustave Flaubert 1850

  • It was wished to retemper for him the sword of the constable Duguesclin; and it was hoped that a statue erected to his honour would at once attest to posterity his spotless glory and the gratitude of the Bourbons.

    The Memoirs of Napoleon Bourrienne, Louis Antoine Fauvelet de 1836

  • It was wished to retemper for him the sword of the constable Duguesclin; and it was hoped that a statue erected to his honour would at once attest to posterity his spotless glory and the gratitude of the Bourbons.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Complete Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

  • It was wished to retemper for him the sword of the constable Duguesclin; and it was hoped that a statue erected to his honour would at once attest to posterity his spotless glory and the gratitude of the Bourbons.

    Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 06 Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne 1801

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