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"There are many words among this free - spoken people," said Carleton, "that to end these differences they must follow the example of France in Marshal d'Ancre's case, and take off the heads of both chiefs."
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1617 John Lothrop Motley 1845
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"There are many words among this free-spoken people," said Carleton, "that to end these differences they must follow the example of France in Marshal d'Ancre's case, and take off the heads of both chiefs."
Life and Death of John of Barneveld — Complete (1609-1623) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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"There are many words among this free-spoken people," said Carleton, "that to end these differences they must follow the example of France in Marshal d'Ancre's case, and take off the heads of both chiefs."
Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War — Complete (1614-23) John Lothrop Motley 1845
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"There are many words among this free-spoken people," said Carleton, "that to end these differences they must follow the example of France in Marshal d'Ancre's case, and take off the heads of both chiefs."
PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845
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Marechale d'Ancre '(1832); both met with moderate success only.
Cinq Mars — Complete Alfred de Vigny 1830
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a translation of 'Othello -- Le More de Venice' (1829); also 'La Marechale d'Ancre' (1832); both met with moderate success only.
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Streamlined one-pieces Eres queen of the one-piece Ancre in rouge grenade £375
Becoming a Bathing Beauty Tina Gaudoin 2011
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Grandad used to tell me about the long route marches his battalion made across France in the rains of 1916 and 1917; going up to the Front, three abreast, the man in the middle dozing, and all dreading the first sight of the Hanging Virgin of Albert because beyond her steeple lay the terrible valley of the Ancre and the hills above the Somme.
Jacob's Ladder Mackay, Colin 2003
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In the trenches on the Ancre {this tale my grandfather told me} men who seldom ever wrote, did write, or had written for them, letters which might never be delivered, diaries which might never be found.
Jacob's Ladder Mackay, Colin 2003
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Had my grandfather been hung to rot on the uncut wire of the Ancre, had my father drowned in that sea of bullets at Salerno, I would not be.
Jacob's Ladder Mackay, Colin 2003
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