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Examples
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I'm sitting here reading the comments and crying at the outpouring of empathy and prayer for "les deux chiens perdus de Marseilles!"
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La Cité des enfants perdus (City of Lost Children) (1995)
MIND MELD: What Makes a Successful SciFi/Fantasy Book Adaptation? Why Do Some Fail? 2008
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Seeing nuns a plenty on the strand was common as several orders had holiday places there recherche du temps perdus James!
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I'm sitting here reading the comments and crying at the outpouring of empathy and prayer for "les deux chiens perdus de Marseilles!"
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Robespierre voulait tour à tour nous attaquer, nous isoler, et enfin il serait resté un jour seul avec les hommes crapuleux et perdus et débauche qui le servent.
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La Cité des enfants perdus City of Lost Children is one of my three favorite films of all time, so this is obviously one of my most anticipated of the new year!
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Hasnaoui, A. (1994) “Alexandre d™Aphrodise vs Jean Philopon: notes sur quelques traités d™Alexandre ˜perdus™ en grec, conservés en arabe”, Arabic Sciences and Philosophy 4 (1994), 53-109.
Greek Sources in Arabic and Islamic Philosophy D'Ancona, Cristina 2009
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You will hear the advanced enfans perdus, as the French call them, and so they are indeed, namely, children of the fall, singing unclean and fulsome ballads of sin and harlotrie.
The Monastery 2008
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Going to Canada is a lost cause, a forlorn hope; it is an “enfants perdus” futile move, “viola tout.”
Enfants Perdus: A Forlorn Hope Nomadicasian 2008
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Il en est de ces ouvrages [toiles peintes] comme de ces tableaux de peintres modernes qui employent beaucoup de glacés; ils sons infiniment séduisants et frais quand ils sortent de dessous la palette de l'artiste, mais vingt années ne se sont pas écoulées que se sont des tableaux perdus.
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