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He is pleased when his French friends pronounce his name perfectly and stunned when they consider him Polonais and not Canadien
At Home in a New World Wladyslaw Pleszczynski 2009
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La mise en scène au Institut Polonais fait appel aux nouvelles technologies (deux écrans de projection: un écran de cinéma en derrière de la scène et en avant scène un écran plus étroit ou il y a une projection du médecin habille dans son robe de docteur, assit, son dos tourne au public, ou en profil, comme observateur de ce qui se passe sur la scène.)
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When Gregory XVI by his Brief dated 5 October 1833, found fault with the "long and violent preface" Montalembert had written for Mickiewicz's "Livre des Pélerins Polonais" and when at the end of that same year Lamennais broke away from the Church,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913
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Despite its essentially masculine mould, it is given a feminine title; formerly it was called Polonais.
Chopin : the Man and His Music James Huneker 1890
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_Polémire ou l'Illustre Polonais_ (Paris, 1647), is dedicated to no less
A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century George Saintsbury 1889
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"Vive les Polonais!" he did not show himself, not wishing to expose himself to any unpleasantness on the part of the
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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"Madame, tous les Schahs de Perse que j'ai eu l'honneur de voir à minuit ont été gris comme des Polonais."
In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886
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Garde! "shouted the multitude;" Vive les Polonais!
France in the Nineteenth Century Elizabeth Latimer 1863
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'_Tiens_!' said one of the escaping revolutionists to another, '_on vient de tuer le Polonais_!
Rudin Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850
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(Indische-Taube: Pigeons Polonais.) _Beak short, broad, deep; naked skin round the eyes, broad and carunculated; skin over nostrils slightly swollen.
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I. Charles Darwin 1845
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