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  • The town of Vire, as the reader may have already had intimation, is the chief town of that department of Normandy called the BOCAGE; and in this department few places have been, of old, more celebrated than the _Vaux de Vire_; on account of the number of manufactories which have existed there from time immemorial.

    A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume One Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811

  • ( "Vire") being actually pronounced while he wrote.

    Robert Browning 1892

  • Mike directed Vire to Mindy Reed and Stephanie Barko and they shepherded Vire, me, and Pathway to the conclusion.

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Vire detects, in a dozen of obscure phrases of a book printed at

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • The U.S. First Army would continue to attack in the Vire-Mortain area, making a tighter wheeling movement.

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • He also increased pressure at Vire on the assembling German forces.

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • He deployed five infantry divisions, backed by two armored combat commands, along eighteen miles of front between Mortain and Vire, and held three of Patton's divisions to anchor the right flank to the west of Mortain.

    Steel Victory Yeide, Harry 2003

  • Dirt-tail, and Smalltrash, who ran away six hours before the battle — one of them as far as to Lainiel-neck at one course, another to the valley of Vire, and the third even unto Logroine, without looking back or taking breath by the way — and two of the cake-bakers who were slain in the fight.

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

  • Dirt-tail, and Smalltrash, who ran away six hours before the battle — one of them as far as to Lainiel-neck at one course, another to the valley of Vire, and the third even unto Logroine, without looking back or taking breath by the way — and two of the cake-bakers who were slain in the fight.

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

  • Tuesday's second stage is from St. Valery-en-Caux on the northern coast of France to Vire 162.8 miles.

    USA TODAY Latest news 1999

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