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Also he called another Assise cõerning a poore fellow called Gabriel, for concealing some speeches M. Pollard and M.
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Without thinking of those great times when men lived in the giddiness and the exultation of a constant creation -- when a day was sufficient for Rubens to paint the "Kermesse" thirteen days to paint the "Mages", even or eight to paint the "Communion de St. François d'Assise" -- and blotting from our mind the fabulous production of Tintoretto and
Modern Painting 1892
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(Soundbite of song, "Assise") Ms. CAMILLE DALMAIS (French Singer): (Singing) (French spoken) NIXON: One French singer who's never gone out of style was the late Serge Gainsbourg.
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Saint Francois d 'Assise, priez pour le brave chien, and pour sa famille.
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Saint Francois d' Assise, priez pour le brave chien, and pour sa famille.
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To this purpose [6233] Saint Francis, because he used to confess women in private, to prevent suspicion, and prove himself a maid, stripped himself before the Bishop of Assise and others: and
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Saint-Assise-lès-Combray, which are separated, really, by a screen of tall trees; or, to take another example, there are all the canals at Jouy-le-Vicomte, which is Gaudiacus vicecomitis, as of course you know.
Swann's Way 2003
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Counsel thereupon elected to abide by his first contention, and the question of fact was referred to the Assise (or Jury) which found that part of the tenements were in William's seisin and that William had purchased his father's estate therein.
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"This is the form of a trial by battle; a trial which the tenant or defendant in a writ of right has it in his election at this day to demand, and which was the only decision of such writ of right after the Conquest, till Henry II, by consent of Parliament, introduced the _Grand Assise_, a peculiar species of trial by jury."
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Assise et l ordre seraphique (Vannes, 1898); VILLERET, Les Freres
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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