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  • To _bouter dehors_ the money-making unbeliever was an object that found adherents from the Rif to the Sahara, and the Saadian cherifs soon rallied a mighty following to their standard.

    In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899

  • Was this all that she believed herself to be appointed to do? or did she expect, as she sometimes said, to/bouter/the English out of France altogether?

    Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896

  • Was this all that she believed herself to be appointed to do? or did she expect, as she sometimes said, to _bouter_ the English out of France altogether?

    Jeanne D'Arc: her life and death 1862

  • [v. 04 p. 0891] BUTTON (Fr. _bouton_, O.Fr. _boton_, apparently from the same root as _bouter_, to push), a small piece of metal or other material which, pushed through a loop or button-hole, serves as a catch between different parts of a garment, &c.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • I have come from the King of Heaven to drive you out [bouter

    Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

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