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  • Matthew Lansberg, and the Lame Messenger (Messager boiteux) by Anthony Souci, astrologer and historian, printed every year at Basle, and sold to the number of 20,000 copies in eight days.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Translator's Musings: Un néologisme boiteux : carbumodulable skip to main

    Un néologisme boiteux : carbumodulable Oleg Kuzin 2006

  • Expos to play this season in Washington on a trial basis rather than as a pardon my French canard boiteux (hint, if it quacks and it limps) in Montreal?

    USATODAY.com - Hopefully the answers are easy 2002

  • Mais comme il n'entendoit ni l'un ni l'autre de ces derniers mots, il lui fut aisé, en copiant ses extraits, de prendre un _el_ pour un _d_, et de changer par cette légère différence Cojuelo, qui veut dire boiteux, en Cojudo, qui signifie quelqu'un qui a de gros testicules, et sobrino l'exprime encore plus grossièrement en

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 Various

  • He then begins to wonder what he would see if, like Asmodee in the Diable boiteux, he could have the roof taken off, so that the various rooms could be exposed to view.

    George Sand; Some Aspects of her Life and Writings 1910

  • He then begins to wonder what he would see if, like Asmodee in the Diable boiteux, he could have the roof taken off, so that the various rooms could be exposed to view.

    George Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and Writings 1910

  • _Diable boiteux_, he could have the roof taken off, so that the various rooms could be exposed to view.

    George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings Ren�� Doumic 1898

  • Le boiteux, l'aveugle, le paralytique des rues de Dublin ou de

    The Countess Cathleen 1897

  • Like the _Diable boiteux_ he must, bestriding his crutch, have soared above the heads of the congregation, to pass as he did in the twinkling of an eye from Morlot, the deputy, who, being a freethinker, had remained in the parvis, to Marie-Claire kneeling at the foot of the catafalque.

    A Mummer's Tale Anatole France 1884

  • I thought of the _Diable boiteux_ carrying the student of Alcala over the city, Madrid, removing the roofs of the houses, and exposing to his view the stories of the lives and miseries of those within.

    In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc 1879

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