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Mardigras, to finish Leonidas with Rabellais, to set the crown on this victory by a word impossible to speak, to lose the field and preserve history, to have the laugh on your side after such a carnage, -- this is immense!
Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843
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Tasks are colored from what the paint store would call "Tomato Red" (highest priority) down to "Mardigras Gold" (lowest priority).
NYT > Home Page By SAM GROBART 2012
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And of this race came St. Fatgulch and Shrove Tuesday (Pansart, Mardigras.).
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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DannoHung 6 points 23 minutes ago DannoHung 6 points 23 minutes ago dougletts 5 points 27 minutes ago gigaquack 1 point 25 seconds ago blablablablabla78 4 points 11 minutes ago ElGaucho56 4 points 16 minutes ago ElGaucho56 4 points 16 minutes ago FrancisC 4 points 47 minutes ago FrancisC 4 points 47 minutes ago Mardigras 1 point 27 minutes ago Mardigras 1 point 27 minutes ago
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Between the Mardigras Miracle (please give me credit when y'all use that one) and all the other unreal grabs he's made throughout his career, did this one punch the ticket?
Inside the Panthers 2009
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Ohain, to Grouchy’s delay, to Blucher’s arrival, to be Irony itself in the tomb, to act so as to stand upright though fallen, to drown in two syllables the European coalition, to offer kings privies which the Caesars once knew, to make the lowest of words the most lofty by entwining with it the glory of France, insolently to end Waterloo with Mardigras, to finish
Les Miserables 2008
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