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  • In the 6 following weeks, not “nice” but “long” (this is precisely how they will feel for me) I'm sure I will often visualise your Hummingbird Hawk-Moth hovering in front of these beautiful “geranium lierre” (ivy geranium) ...

    le mot juste - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • Excepté que, sur cette tour-là, de lierre toute couverte

    Literary translation (English) Rene Meertens 2010

  • In the 6 following weeks, not “nice” but “long” (this is precisely how they will feel for me) I'm sure I will often visualise your Hummingbird Hawk-Moth hovering in front of these beautiful “geranium lierre” (ivy geranium)...

    le mot juste - French Word-A-Day 2009

  • When we came to the snapshot of the crumbling cabanon* (just off Manou's kitchen, across the gravel driveway) our hostess explained that she and her sister had spent an entire day pulling off the rampant lierre* from what was left of the shed's roof.

    le coude - French Word-A-Day 2005

  • When we came to the snapshot of the crumbling cabanon* (just off Manou's kitchen, across the gravel driveway) our hostess explained that she and her sister had spent an entire day pulling off the rampant lierre* from what was left of the shed's roof.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • When we came to the snapshot of the crumbling cabanon* (just off Manou's kitchen, across the gravel driveway) our hostess explained that she and her sister had spent an entire day pulling off the rampant lierre* from what was left of the shed's roof.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • When we came to the snapshot of the crumbling cabanon* just off Manou's kitchen, across the gravel driveway our hostess explained that she and her sister had spent an entire day pulling off the rampant lierre* from what was left of the shed's roof.

    French Word-A-Day: 2005

  • When we came to the snapshot of the crumbling cabanon* just off Manou's kitchen, across the gravel driveway our hostess explained that she and her sister had spent an entire day pulling off the rampant lierre* from what was left of the shed's roof.

    le coude - French Word-A-Day 2005

  • Canada detrempees dans un demi cuilleree de syrop de lierre terrestre.

    Travels through France and Italy 2004

  • Pattison and his young wife at Lincoln College, and described the 'toute jeune femme, charmante, gracieuse, à visage frais et presque mutin, dans le plus joli nid de vieille architecture, avec lierre et grands arbres.'

    The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Stephen Lucius Gwynn 1907

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