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Cathedral, or at the distant flight of the swallows, while in his mind he dwelt upon some brilliant _saillie_ of Montaigne or Rabelais.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865 Various
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Upon the exterior side-walls are Roman arches _en saillie_, resting upon corbels and very wide pilaster-strips that are almost buttresses.
Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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[Footnote: Salades, sorte de casque léger alors en usage, et qui, n'ayant ni visière ni gorgerin, avoit besoin de cette bande de fer en saillie pour défendre le visage.]
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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[Footnote: Salades, sorte de casque l間er alors en usage, et qui, n’ayant ni visi鑢e ni gorgerin, avoit besoin de cette bande de fer en saillie pour d閒endre le visage.]
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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The morphological unit, says he, is the cellular protrusion or growing point (_saillie_) and its corresponding fibro-vascular bundle. [
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants Maxwell T. Masters
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