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  • This Chicken Divan is my submission to this month's Family Recipes, a monthly event being hosted by HoneyB of The Life & Times of Grumpy's Honeybunch and myself.

    Family Recipes: Chicken Divan, The Spiced Life Family Style Laura 2009

  • So even if you think you know what Chicken Divan is supposed to taste like -- and this is not it!

    Family Recipes: Chicken Divan, The Spiced Life Family Style Laura 2009

  • So even if you think you know what Chicken Divan is supposed to taste like -- and this is not it!

    Archive 2009-05-01 Laura 2009

  • This Chicken Divan is my submission to this month's Family Recipes, a monthly event being hosted by HoneyB of The Life & Times of Grumpy's Honeybunch and myself.

    Archive 2009-05-01 Laura 2009

  • Mr Quilp determined to use it, both as a sleeping place by night and as a kind of Divan by day; and in order that it might be converted to the latter purpose at once, remained where he was, and smoked his pipe out.

    The Old Curiosity Shop 2007

  • "Divan" is one of the most complicated words I know.

    languagehat.com: DIVAN. 2005

  • He points out that the early sultans had their "Divan," or assemblage of high officials, meeting regularly to give the sultan information and advice, while more recently there have been a Council of

    The New World of Islam Lothrop Stoddard 1916

  • From the Persian he translated the entire "Divan" of Hafiz (Stuttgart and Tübingen, 1812-13).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability 1840-1916 1913

  • Goethe is to be found no more, or no less, in his 'Theory of Colors' or in his 'Metamorphosis of Plants,' than in his 'Divan' or his 'Faust'; and lyrism, if I may use this trite expression, "is overflowing" in Schleiermacher's theology and in Schelling's philosophy.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 6 Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle 1864

  • Brass applauding this picture very much, and the bed being soft and comfortable, Mr Quilp determined to use it, both as a sleeping place by night and as a kind of Divan by day; and in order that it might be converted to the latter purpose at once, remained where he was, and smoked his pipe out.

    The Old Curiosity Shop Charles Dickens 1841

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