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  • Clint, who had cut only one "recit," received merely a reprimand from "Horace" and an invitation to make up the lost work.

    Left Tackle Thayer Ralph Henry Barbour 1907

  • Sous un vol de pterosaures, des enfants partent a I'ecole dans un bus Apatosaurus et croisent un Brachiosaurus pompier… Ala maniere d'un Francois Place qui revisitait Ie recit d'exploration avec ses Derniers Giants, James Gurney embarque Ie lecteur encore plus loin dans Ie fantastique.

    Archive 2009-01-01 James Gurney 2009

  • I'm giving it points, however, for the brilliant choice of offering the recit Coelestis dum spirat aura as an introduction to Dolly Parton's 'I Don't Believe You've Met My Baby.'

    Can you detect what's coming next from the flex of the wrist? Matthew Guerrieri 2007

  • Sous un vol de pterosaures, des enfants partent a I'ecole dans un bus Apatosaurus et croisent un Brachiosaurus pompier… Ala maniere d'un Francois Place qui revisitait Ie recit d'exploration avec ses Derniers Giants, James Gurney embarque Ie lecteur encore plus loin dans Ie fantastique.

    Review of Un Voyage a Chandara James Gurney 2009

  • On my recording of Don Giovanni that I uploaded Gilulini on EMI, it has 30+ tracks on each CD, because of all the recit.

    My [final] take on the iPod Patrick J. Smith 2007

  • As the sixth verse instructs, I hold the device by each sphere and rotate the spheres forward, while recit - ing the seventh verse.

    Dragons of a Fallen Sun Weis, Margaret 2000

  • Though the knowledge he carried threatened to choke him, somehow he made it to the end of his speech, recit-ing the prepared text as mechanically as any artificial di-aphragm.

    The False Mirror Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1992

  • Hitler shouted when Guderian showed him a memorandum recit - ing the accumulation of Soviet divisions in Poland.

    Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965

  • Si le recit vous ennuye, vous n'ignorez pas le motif que j'ai a vous le faire.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • It is dear, half-a-guinea; un recit trop graveleux pour etre recommande aux dames.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

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