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  • Belgian railway operator Societe Nationale des Chemins de fer Belges, or SNCB, owns the remaining 5%.

    Siemens Gets Contract to Build Eurostar Trains Sarah Sloat 2010

  • Conrad wrote this story based on his adventurous six month trip up the Congo River, while working on a steamboat, Roi des Belges, in the then mostly unknown African Congo of 1890.

    Heart of Darkness And America's Gloomy History 2008

  • Belges, in his Illustrations de Gaule et singularités de

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas JEAN SEZNEC 1968

  • The Parc d'Automobiles Belges sent such a huge _gerbe_ that two men had to carry it, and, emblazoned on a broad ribbon of the Belgian colours, spanning the whole thing, was my name and an inscription in letters of gold!

    Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington

  • Pour l'instant, heureusement qu'il y a les Québécois et les Belges pour maintenir la présence de la langue française.

    Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

  • The pace is not more sober to-day, but gaily caparisoned horses and gaudy coaches have given way to red and yellow "Rois des Belges," the balance lying distinctly in favour of the former mode of conveyance, so far as picturesqueness is concerned.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • There is, however, such a thing as a Belgian literature, though it is not very extensive, and one of its chief ornaments is Professor BORGNEL, of Liege, best known as the author of a _Historie des Belges à la fin du dix-huilième

    The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 Various

  • I don't hold with foreigners as a rule, but from what the newspapers say I make out as how these brave Belges isn't the ordinary run of foreigners, and certainly he's a most polite spoken gentleman. ''

    The Mysterious Affair at Styles 1920

  • The French newspapers still contained vague and cheerful bulletins about their own military situation, and filled the rest of their meagre space with eloquent praise of les braves petits Belges.

    The Soul of the War Philip Gibbs 1919

  • The only address I knew was the Hotel des Belges, but

    Moon and Sixpence 1919

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