lumiere

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  • Since the rest of the world has a different video standard from the US, these tapes are often made through a format-conversion process, and so may suffer in son et lumiere. —  FAQ: Welcome to the Rolling Stones' Mailing list FAQ list Version 1.08
  • “ 'Et lorsqu'a ses regards la lumiere est ravie, —  Life of Lord Byron With His Letters And Journals
  • 'lac Ave' any more than of 'Ineestreeneeche,' and I was beginning to suspect your descriptions to have been purely imaginary, when un trait de lumiere illuminated my brain. —  Philip Gilbert Hamerton
  • As in all countries the restraints which religion imposes are more readily submitted to by the inferior ranks of life, it is these which must be most affected by its abolition; and we cannot wonder, that when men have been once accustomed to neglect the duty they consider as most essential, they should in time become capable of violating every other: for, however it may be among the learned, qui s'aveuglent a force de lumiere, [Who blind themselves by excess of light. —  A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795
  • Kaz blinked. —  Kaz the Minotaur
 

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