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  • LONDON — A former co-head of a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. in-house trading team, Pierre-Henri Flamand, is due to raise more than $1 billion from investors, in what bankers believe to be the largest hedge-fund launch globally this year.

    Goldman Trader's New Gig: Big Fund Cassell Bryan-Low 2010

  • The Dutchman (he was not Flamand, but pure Hollandais) was slow, cool, of rather dense intelligence, though sound and accurate judgment; the Englishman far more nervous, active, quicker both to plan and to practise, to conceive and to realize.

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • Among the half dozen happened to be a certain Jean Baptiste Vandenhuten, a most ponderous young Flamand, not tall, but even now, at the early age of sixteen, possessing a breadth and depth of personal development truly national.

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • “Anglais ou Francais, monsieur?” demanded a thickset, moon-faced young Flamand in a blouse.

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • Flamands certainly they were, and both had the true Flamand physiognomy, where intellectual inferiority is marked in lines none can mistake; still they were men, and, in the main, honest men; and I could not see why their being aboriginals of the flat, dull soil should serve as a pretext for treating them with perpetual severity and contempt.

    The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte 2006

  • Arrived at the said train, one climbed up a step-ladder in to a truck divided into four partitions, and Ziské, a deaf old Flamand, carried buckets of boiling water from the engine and we added what cold we wanted ourselves.

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • Le tout gravè et representé en grandes figures de taille douce par Crispian de Pas, Flamand, à l'honneur du Roy, et à la memoire de Monsieur de Pluvinel_.

    English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard

  • She smiled, but she and all the rest spoke some rude language, Flamand, I suppose; so that we had to be kind to each other by signs.

    Tremendous Trifles 1905

  • He glanced at the Flamand lying heaped on his stretcher.

    The Romantic May Sinclair 1904

  • The Flamand, thinking that she had given it up and that he was now abandoned to the Germans, groaned.

    The Romantic May Sinclair 1904

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