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  • Il avait fait couper des rochers énormes, qui en s'ébranlant dès qu'on retirait les faibles appuis qui les retenaient encore, se détachaient du sommet de la montaigne et se précipitaient avec un bruit affreux sur les bataillons serrés des Autrichiens.

    Gibbon James Cotter Morison 1860

  • I behold the towering form of that noted landmark "_La montaigne qui trempe a l'eau_," and the swelling cone on whose summit the soldier-traveller pitched his tent.

    The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West Mayne Reid 1850

  • {5} '"Lesquels Escossois descendirent la montaigne in bonne ordre, en la maniere que marchent Its Allemans, sans parler, ne faire aucun bruit" -- Gazette of the Battle, PINKERTON'S History, Appendix, vol.ii. p. 456.'

    Marmion Walter Scott 1801

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    Rational Review 2009

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  • I googled it and it said it's Australian as well so, "NO WUKKIN FURRIES MATE I GET UP EARLY AND ALWAYS UP DAWN'S CRACK REGULAR LIKE.". all hope remains in Spedo Shorts michel de montaigne says:

    Guy Fawkes' blog 2009

  • One veteran French Canadian, an employee of the American Fur Company, way back in the early '30's, used to mourn thus: "Mais, sacre! les Amarican, dey go to de Missouri frontier, de buffalo he ron to de montaigne; de trappaire wid his fusil, he follow to de Bayou

    The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Henry Inman 1868

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