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  • Roues, more than all others, are exposed to that fury, and the reason is very simple: ordinary life is the limpid surface, that of the roue is the rapid current swirling over and over, and at times touching the bottom.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Both on the set where I presently found him -- playing the part of a titled roue in the new Buckeye comedy -- to be called, one hears, 'Nearly Sweethearts or

    Merton of the Movies Harry Leon Wilson 1903

  • Roues, more than all others, are exposed to that fury, and the reason is very simple: ordinary life is the limpid surface, that of the roue is the rapid current swirling over and over, and at times touching the bottom.

    The Confession of a Child of the Century — Complete Alfred de Musset 1833

  • Je tenais l'appareil de la main gauche mais c'etait sans compter sur mes super tremblements et alors arrivé a la "roue" ou l'on doit tourner le stylet le plus vite possible la c'etait meme pas la peine l'image etait pu du tout cadrée vu que ca bougeait dans tous les sens!

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • There is no doubt that too much clothing is an evil, as well as too little; but clothing that swelters or leaves us with a cold are both lesser evils than the exposure of esoteric charms to stir the already heated blood of the 'roue'.

    America, through the spectacles of an Oriental diplomat Tingfang Wu 1882

  • Des hommes se jettent en avant de la roue pour la faire tourner grâce à leur poids.

    Grande roue indienne The Nag 2009

  • Une grande roue en Inde qui ne marche pas à l'aide d'un moteur mais à l'aide de la force humaine.

    Grande roue indienne The Nag 2009

  • This dude, does he have anything thats not physically wrong with him? roue

    Cheney undergoes back surgery 2009

  • Royalists in Pennsylvania legislature are now calling for his resignation, but friends of the randy roue assured TMZ that the eccentric diplomat intends to "hang in there" no matter what revelations are made about what his "poor Richard" is up to... more

    Fortune's Stanley Bing: Exclusive Bulletins From the Archives of TMZ! <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011

  • Royalists in Pennsylvania legislature are now calling for his resignation, but friends of the randy roue assured TMZ that the eccentric diplomat intends to "hang in there" no matter what revelations are made about what his "poor Richard" is up to... more

    Fortune's Stanley Bing: Exclusive Bulletins From the Archives of TMZ! <i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing 2011

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