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... French word , however , that may help , I think , to solve the problem – bonté , a noun for which the English language offers no exact equivalent , but that the most authoritative French dictionaries lengthily and elaborately define ...
... French word , however , that may help , I think , to solve the problem – bonté , a noun for which the English language offers no exact equivalent , but that the most authoritative French dictionaries lengthily and elaborately define ...
Page 92
... French beach ? Better still , would she promise to keep his glove , and allow him to pick it up , at any address she chose , once he was back again among his London friends ? His romantic overture , which I prefer to think that she de ...
... French beach ? Better still , would she promise to keep his glove , and allow him to pick it up , at any address she chose , once he was back again among his London friends ? His romantic overture , which I prefer to think that she de ...
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... French cooking and the best French wines , included the company of beautiful and cul- tivated women and the conversation of learned literary men . An exile from the court of Louis XIV , he passed his middle life and his old age in ...
... French cooking and the best French wines , included the company of beautiful and cul- tivated women and the conversation of learned literary men . An exile from the court of Louis XIV , he passed his middle life and his old age in ...
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