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  • At this point in the ceremony the viewer, Harry Ratchett, would normally step up to the font and hand over to Saul the "arles," the traditional payment for pledging the child, a purse of ten pounds.

    A Place Called Freedom Follett, Ken 1995

  • The handful of soil which constitutes the 'arles' is part of the broad acres made over by it.

    Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. Alexander Maclaren 1868

  • Les Recontres d'Arles Until Sept. 13 www. rencontres-arles.com Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munchen Franz Marc's 'The Tiger' (1912), on display in Baden-Baden.

    Time Off 2009

  • C.arles Dharapak/Associated Press First Lady Michelle Obama hugged Ty'Sheoma Bethea, an eighth-grader at J.V. Martin Junior High School in Dillon, S.C. The girl wrote C.ngress to ask for help for her school's crumbling facility after hearing the president speak about it during his Feb. 9 news conference.

    On Obama's Guest List 2009

  • C.arles Dharapak/Associated Press First lady Michelle Obama hugged Ty'Sheoma Bethea, an eighth-grader at J.V. Martin Junior High School in Dillon, S.C. The girl wrote C.ngress to ask for help for her school's crumbling facility after hearing the president speak about it during his Feb. 9 news conference.

    'We Will Rebuild,' Obama Tells Nation 2009

  • Signed and dated (on arm of chair): vincent / arles 89; inscribed (lower right): La / Berceuse

    Archive 2009-02-01 2009

  • Marcus C.arles Illions Paint and metallic leaf on wood with jewels and glass eyes Photo courtesy Smithsonian Institution C.llections, Archives C.nter C.rousel C.llection M.C. Illions and Sons Shop Brooklyn, New York, c.

    'Gilded Lions and Jeweled Horses: The Synagogue to the Carousel' 2008

  • Socialite Sells in D.C. Washington hostess Marion Oates "Oatsie" C.arles has sold her Georgetown home of more than 50 years for $7 million.

    Kidman and Urban 2007

  • Among them, for instance, is Pierre-C.arles La Font, the man credited with designing Washington, D.C. So, it's been a variety of people who have used that, Wolf.

    CNN Transcript Dec 30, 2006 2006

  • As for Morton, he exhausted his own very slender stock of money in order to make Cuddie such a present, under the name of arles, as might show his sense of the value of the recommendation delivered to him.

    Old Mortality 2004

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