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Examples

  • Samsung 8MP camera phone to be known as Loche previously leaked S8300 handset from Samsung will come to market bearing the name Loches, according to a Thursday report.

    Electronista | Gadgets for Geeks 2009

  • Tristan, who bore the summons for moving up his auxiliary forces, had the farther commission to carry the Cardinal to the Castle of Loches, and there shut him up in one of those iron cages which he himself is said to have invented.

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • “No, my unhappy and rash friend,” answered Crawford, with a sigh, “to Loches.”

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • After he had returned to his own kingdom, he caused his late favourite to be immured in one of the iron cages at Loches.

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • “They were both under arrest in the Castle of Loches, that delightful place of retirement for the French nobility,” said

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • Carps and Loches are observed to breed several months in one year, which most other fish do not, and it is the rather believed, because you shall scarce or never take a Male

    The Compleat Angler 2007

  • After 21 miles, the riders passed the striking medieval fortress of Loches.

    Agnolutto goes solo in Stage 7 2000

  • I could not get out of my mind the stories I had heard of his vengeful nature and how he had made a particularly gruesome prison of his chateau of Loches where he imprisoned his enemies in the oubliettes there those dungeon-like underground prisons into which men were thrown and left to be forgotten as the name implied.

    The Reluctant Queen Plaidy, Jean, 1906-1993- 1990

  • What had impressed me so deeply was that Louis was reputed to pay periodic visits to Loches that he might peer down on those men whom he had imprisoned and then watch as they progressed towards their grisly end.

    The Reluctant Queen Plaidy, Jean, 1906-1993- 1990

  • I could not get out of my mind the stories I had heard of his vengeful nature and how he had made a particularly gruesome prison of his chateau of Loches where he imprisoned his enemies in the oubliettes there those dungeon-like underground prisons into which men were thrown and left to be forgotten as the name implied.

    The Reluctant Queen Plaidy, Jean, 1906-1993- 1990

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