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  • 'I have been telling M'man how we were caught up in the protests at the Palais Gamier last evening,' he said sharply, fixing her with a look.

    Sepulchre Mosse, Kate 2007

  • I thought rather petulantly, 'Another joke with plastics: what does Mr. Heng expect me to write now?' but when I got into the Place Gamier, I realised by the heavy clouds of smoke that this was no joke.

    The Quiet American Greene, Graham, 1904-1991 1955

  • General of Division Gamier, commander in chief of the French troops, and those of Italy and other allies then in the Roman Republic in a state of siege; which terminated in the surrender of the fort and town of Civita

    The Life of the Right Honourable Horatio Lord Viscount Nelson, Volume 2 James Harrison

  • Beside the income of the Gamier fund previously accorded to him for the purpose, it has accorded him a grant of 30,000 francs.

    The American Journal of Archaeology, 1893-1 Various

  • Father Gamier was killed at the mission of St. Jean (Etarita), in the raids which the Iroquois made at a later time on the Tobacco

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • Charles Bulfinch, Viollet le Duc, Gamier Frères (N.B. -- There is only one of him), and Brian Boru.

    The Brochure Series of Architectural Illustration, Volume 01, No. 08, August 1895 Fragments of Greek Detail Various

  • I am reading l'Histoire de la Medecine by Daremberg, which amuses me a great deal, and I have finished l'Essai sur les facultes de l'entendement by Gamier, which I think very silly.

    The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters Sand, George, 1804-1876 1921

  • He was then made professor of Sacred Scripture and also of Hebrew, to which branches he had been thoroughly formed by Gamier, a scholar, says Renan, "who had a very solid knowledge of languages and the most complete knowledge of exegesis of any Catholic in France" (Souvenirs d'enfance et de jeunesse, 269).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

  • Nevertheless, Gamier (who afterwards became superior-general),

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

  • Gamier, enter upon their glorious toils, their bare and sandalled feet, accustomed to the smooth walks of the convents of Brouage and Rheims and

    The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901

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