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  • It's a hospital called Sacre-Coeur it's located in Milot which is 80 miles north of Port-au-Prince, near Cap Haitien.

    CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2010 2010

  • Corpus Christi, called the Sacre, wherein all women put on their best apparel, and on that day the said lady was clothed in a rich gown of crimson satin, under which she wore a very costly white velvet petticoat.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • Corpus Christi, called the Sacre, wherein all women put on their best apparel, and on that day the said lady was clothed in a rich gown of crimson satin, under which she wore a very costly white velvet petticoat.

    Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002

  • He is the firebrand of the war in these regions and a propagandist of the religious association called the Sacre-Coeur.

    The Chouans Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • Christi, called the Sacre, wherein all women put on their best apparel, and on that day the said lady was clothed in a rich gown of crimson satin, under which she wore a very costly white velvet petticoat.

    Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518

  • "Sacre," which Boston Ballet commissioned from its resident choreographer, Jorma Elo, followed in a line of countless stagings of a score that initially provided Diaghilev's Ballets Russes with one of its most ­attention-getting scandals.

    Inspired by Diaghilev 2009

  • At the Ballets Russes premiere of "Sacre," the walls reportedly shook with audience abuse ­toward Nijinsky's unexpectedly primal moves and Stravinsky's thunderingly insistent rhythms.

    Inspired by Diaghilev 2009

  • Spring Symphonies, Spring Overtures, Spring Songs, are really more vernal, more soaked in the gentle sunshine of spring, are more really the seed-time, than the six naïve piping measures of melody that introduce the figure of the "Sacre" entitled "Rondes printanières."

    Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers Paul Rosenfeld 1918

  • [Footnote F: NOTE -- An evasive form of "Sacre," analogous to "Sapre,"

    The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Wilfrid Ch��teauclair

  • C Robert Sacre came on strong after missing most of last season with a foot injury, and Mark Few can expect him to continue to improve.

    Gonzaga - Team Notes 2010

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