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  • One or two of the boys began to blow softly on the trumpets and beat the drums, and were instantly hushed up by the parents; but we said they might make as much noise as they pleased for a few moments, and a fine "vacarme" (row) it was -- the heavy boots of the boys contributing well as they moved about after their trains, marbles, etc.

    Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington

  • The frivolous Parisians were, in the meanwhile, amusing themselves at their theatres and cafes as usual; and a new piece, in which Arnal performed, was the universal talk of the foyers: while a new feuilleton by Monsieur Eugene Sue, kept the attention of the reader so fascinated to the journal, that they did not care in the least for the vacarme without the walls.

    Burlesques 2006

  • The frivolous Parisians were, in the meanwhile, amusing themselves at their theatres and cafes as usual; and a new piece, in which Arnal performed, was the universal talk of the foyers: while a new feuilleton by Monsieur Eugene Sue, kept the attention of the reader so fascinated to the journal, that they did not care in the least for the vacarme without the walls.

    The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

  • Le voyageur, furieux, fait un vacarme effroyable, et l'hôtelier impassible lui porte sur sa carte: "6 réaux de tapage."

    French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann

  • The hubbub and the noise were deafening, for the squeakings of some sixty or seventy pigs, which were being hoisted on board a vessel alongside bound for Barcelona, added to the din, and combined to make what the French would call "_un vacarme infernal_."

    On the Equator Harry De Windt 1894

  • The frivolous Parisians were, in the meanwhile, amusing themselves at their theatres and cafes as usual; and a new piece, in which Arnal performed, was the universal talk of the foyers: while a new feuilleton by Monsieur Eugene Sue, kept the attention of the reader so fascinated to the journal, that they did not care in the least for the vacarme without the walls.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Ici le vacarme de l’étude redouble; le petit Chose s’interrompt et distribue quelques punitions de droite et de gauche, mais gravement, sans colère.

    Le Petit Chose (part 1) Histoire d'un Enfant Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • Votre libert ` e ne me s ` eduit point; cette libert ` e tant vant ` ee me paroit bien plus on ` ereuse que notre esclavage; mais il ne m'appartient pas de traitor de telles mati ` eres: permettez-moi de bl ` amer votre indiscr ` etion, de vous aller promener dans les rues pendant ce vacarme. "

    The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4 Horace Walpole 1757

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