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  • The "Couteau" country is there represented and supposed to be in point of mineral wealth a second California or Australia, and those impressions are sustained by the false and exaggerated statements of steamboat owners and other interested parties, who benefit by the current of emigration which is now setting strongly towards this quarter.

    Handbook to the new Gold-fields 1859

  • Since I had the honour of addressing you on the 6th of April last on the subject of the "Couteau" gold mines, they have become more than ever a source of attraction to the people of Washington and Oregon territories, and it is evident from the accounts published in the latest San

    Handbook to the new Gold-fields 1859

  • There, the window of Le Couteau d'Argent shows pictures of its famous owner, Yves-Marie Le Bourdonnec, posing naked with meat.

    In Paris, One Butcher Is a Cut Above the Rest Marion Issard 2012

  • Ten years later, he bought Le Couteau d'Argent "The Silver Knife" from his boss.

    In Paris, One Butcher Is a Cut Above the Rest Marion Issard 2012

  • In many sculptures we aren't sure whether we are looking at a clitoris or the top of a penis emerging from foreskin, while in Femme Couteau, a Giacometti-like, smallish marble dated 1969 – 1970, a headless female form has been given a menacing, dagger-like shape.

    Daring and Disturbing Schwartz, Sanford 2008

  • Couteau jumped from the bed quite satisfied, and went off to play with her doll again at the far end of the ward.

    The Three Cities Trilogy, Complete Lourdes, Rome and Paris ��mile Zola 1871

  • Couteau jumped from the bed quite satisfied, and went off to play with her doll again at the far end of the ward.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4 ��mile Zola 1871

  • She attempted to smile as she encountered the eager gaze of curiosity which little Sophie Couteau still fixed upon her: the charming child had come to kiss her that very morning, in her bed.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Volume 4 ��mile Zola 1871

  • Couteau jumped from the bed quite satisfied, and went off to play with her doll again at the far end of the ward.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

  • She attempted to smile as she encountered the eager gaze of curiosity which little Sophie Couteau still fixed upon her: the charming child had come to kiss her that very morning, in her bed.

    The Three Cities Trilogy: Lourdes, Complete ��mile Zola 1871

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