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  • AS she walked past a cab rank in Pont Street, Mrs. Miniver heard a very fat taxi-driver with a bottle nose saying to a very old taxi-driver with a rheumy eye: "They say it's all a question of your subconscious mind."

    Mrs. Miniver 1939

  • I like to have coffee every morning with my friends there or at Le Pont, which is in my neighborhood and never closes.

    Buenos Aires 2011

  • The local mini London Bridge called Pont Morens where the Captain Pub is had its houses removed in 1886.

    Annecy way back... Hans Perk 2006

  • Presently I came to a bridge bestriding the stream, which a man told me was called Pont Aber Glas Lyn, or the bridge of the debouchement of the grey lake.

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • From a man whom I met I learned that the bridge was called Pont

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • “Oh no, sir; he lived far away up towards the head of the valley, at a place called Pont y Meibion.”

    Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery 2004

  • Rhone, and after crossing a long stone bridge called the Pont la

    Itinerary of Provence and the Rhone Made During the Year 1819 John Hughes

  • Pont, which is the ferry over the Orange river on the way to Colesberg, with the intention of attacking Naauwpoort Junction, on the

    From Capetown to Ladysmith An Unfinished Record of the South African War G. W. Steevens

  • Among these are Hadrian's Wall in Britain, the splendid aqueduct known as the Pont du Gard near Nîmes in southern France, the beautiful temple called La Maison Carrée in the same city, the Olympieum at Athens, and the temple of the Sun at Baalbec in Syria Thus the lonely hilltops, the desolate desert sands, the mountain fastnesses of three continents bear witness even now to the widespreading sway of Rome.

    Early European History Hutton Webster

  • We were on our way back at a little place called Pont l'Abbesse, about 6.30, when the snow came down in blinding gusts.

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

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