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She used to keep a fast of the day of the supplice of Philippe Egalite, Saint and
The Newcomes 2006
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C un supplice 1/pour me lire mais aussi quand j'ecris des fic parce que la j'suis obligé d'en mettre.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2005
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The slight, bespectacled young priest in his white supplice seemed, at first sight, an unlikely leader of popular struggle.
Haiti: The Fall of the House of Aristide Dailey, Peter 2003
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= Similar phrasing at _Met_ VI 33 '_supplice uoce_ roga: ueniam dabit illa roganti'.
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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PURGATOIRE, _m. _, lieu de supplice où les âmes des justes incomplètement purifiées achèvent de purger leurs fautes.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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ENFER, _m. _, lieu destiné au supplice des damnés.
French Conversation and Composition Harry Vincent Wann
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As he turned over the pages, his eye fell on the poem about the hand of Lacenaire, the cold yellow hand "du supplice encore mal lavee," with its downy red hairs and its "doigts de faune."
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Religieuses Ursulines et de la condamnation et du supplice d'Urbain
Introduction to the Science of Sociology Robert Ezra Park 1926
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Pour cracher sur leurs noms, pour chanter leur supplice!
Saint-Lazare 1920
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Sorciers si acharnez à son seruice endiablé, qu'il n'y a torture ny supplice qui les estonne, & diriez qu'ils vont au vray martyre & à la mort pour l'amour de luy, aussi gayement que s'ils alloient à vn festin de plaisir & reioüyssance publique. —
The Witch-cult in Western Europe A Study in Anthropology Margaret Alice Murray 1913
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