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  • At the name Buttes-Chaumont, a place where Albertine had told me that she had never been, my breath stopped for a moment.

    The Captive 2003

  • From there, the show moves to Twin Buttes High School in New Mexico, where students (who are all Zuni tribe members) didn’t just reject their school lunches: they started a garden to grow food for the cafeteria, and even won a grant to build a greenhouse.

    Wine, Tea, and TV Dinners: “The Green” Does Food 2008

  • "We can't see it because the ridge that the French call the Buttes-a-Neveu comes in between."

    The Sun Of Quebec A Story of a Great Crisis 1890

  • Quebec was not a mile distant, but they could not see it; for a ridge of broken ground intervened, called Buttes-à-Neveu, about six hundred paces off.

    Montcalm and Wolfe Francis Parkman 1858

  • Episode two was all about Heidi and Spencer, because they are, I guess, going to be the new leads of the Lauren-less show, when it will be called The Buttes and it will just be a lot of angry staring.

    Gawker 2009

  • Geneviève_ towards the lofty banks which line the River St. Lawrence, covering the greatest part of the land on which subsequently have been built the St. Lewis and St. John's suburbs, the hilly portion towards the city and river, where stands the Asile Champêtre; thence south-east, being then called Buttes à Nepveu; the land close by, between the Plains and Pointe à Puiseaux, as Côte St. Michael; the ascent from the valley of the St. Charles towards this plateau was through the hill known as Côte d'Abraham.

    Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present 1868

  • In early September a detachment surprised a camp at Slim Buttes.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • In early September a detachment surprised a camp at Slim Buttes.

    Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

  • On the other, he's worried that if he assents to the quid Brewer has proposed for his pro quo, kids living in Kanab, a stone's throw from the Arizona border, will begin staggering off Coyote Buttes.

    Mark Steinberg: The Appeal of the Repeal Amendment Mark Steinberg 2011

  • I am so touched by your description of my childhood playground (Les Buttes Chaumont and Paris, bien sur!).

    malentendus 2009

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