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Towards the end of the fifteenth century, advances in maritime commerce neant that the alpine passes gradually began to lose their importance.
Archive 2009-06-01 Lu 2009
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Encore quil est contre son jurement de pardonner aucan prisonnier; neant-moins, pour les escus que vous lavez promis, il est content de vous donner la liberté, le franchisement.
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We no longer believe in the neant of the tomb, nor in salvation bought by enforced renunciation.
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We no longer believe in the _neant_ of the tomb, nor in salvation bought by enforced renunciation.
George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings Ren�� Doumic 1898
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* Or c'est une chose assuree que Jesus-Christ ne nous a pas recommande ses Sacrements pour neant: partant il fait en nous tout ce qu'il nous represente par ces signes sacres; encore que la maniere outrepasse notre entendement, et nous soit incomprehensible,: [13073] 1
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I have faced alike the bourrans of the steppes and the Samieli of Shamo, and the result of my vandal life is best epitomized in those grand but grim words of Bossuet: 'On trouve au fond de tout le vide et le neant.'
St. Elmo 1872
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It, though based on a revolt from the Philosophie du neant, philosophie de la misere, as it used to term the laissez faire School, yet retained the worst fallacy of its foe, namely, that man was the creature of circumstances; and denied him just as much as its antagonist the possession of freewill, or at least the right to use freewill on any large scale.
Roman and the Teuton Charles Kingsley 1847
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Danton was condemned to the guillotine, he said, flinging a pellet of bread at the nose of his respectable judge, 'Mon individu sera bientot dans le neant.'
My Novel — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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When Danton was condemned to the guillotine, he said, flinging a pellet of bread at the nose of his respectable judge, 'Mon individu sera bientot dans le neant.'
My Novel — Volume 08 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838
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Most windows apps use this approach for undo, cut, paste, as they're really neant to be gestures rather than ctrl-'x 'as char.
GameDev.Net 2009
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