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  • Effacé, recouvert par la vaguelette du lendemain, la vague du jour d'après, la houle de la semaine, le tsunami du mois.

    Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

  • Puis, bercé par la houle, et Rocked by the tides, wrapt in bercé par ses rêves, his glorious moods,

    Canada J. G. Bourinot

  • Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille,

    Poems 1926

  • Oubliait les cris des mouettes et la houle de Cornouaille,

    Dans le Restaurant Thomas Stearns 1920

  • _Benedicite_, transferring all to the praise of Lucifer and the Diuels: And the Hagges and Sorcerers doe houle and vary their hellish cries high and low counterfeiting a kinde of villanous musicke.

    The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913

  • But och wirra wirra -- the roof's off of the house -- och the look of the black houle wid the rafters stickin 'thro' it, and ne'er a breath of smoke, till me heart was sick watchin 'to see might there be an odd one; and the door clap-clappin'.

    Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

  • Puttin 'me fut that far down a houle it's caught fast between a couple of rafters.

    Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

  • And wid that down it squats, and begins sayin ',' Creely-crawly snail -- where's the creely-crawly snail I'm after huntin 'out of its houle?'

    Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

  • The others -- that's Misther Forbes and the gintleman -- is already tuk, so ye needn't be expectin 'any help from thim; and as we've got such a hape of goold and silver out ov this houle, we're goin' to be contint wid it, and intind to take the thriflin 'liberty of borryin' the ship to carry it away wid us; you can have the rest yourselves, and much good may it do ye.

    The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" Harry Collingwood 1886

  • Julien rejoint enfin le club des Longboarders avec sa Nat Young premiers rides sur petite houle propre et Cyrille passe sa matinée à tester son nouveau Take Off façon Joël Tudor, rame a genoux et take Off en souplesse, Aloha!

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