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  • "No, but I will pay you!" and with the word Blondel snatched from the table a pistol which he had laid within his reach an hour earlier.

    The Long Night Stanley John Weyman 1891

  • Why ---- "But on the word Blondel stopped; and over his face came a startling change.

    The Long Night Stanley John Weyman 1891

  • Many credits de Lubac and Blondel, which is fine, but I really think Guardini must be up there.

    Deep Furrows Fred 2007

  • This social impasse, as reflected in relationships documented by calling records, "had an impact on the political life and the discussions about forming a government," said Dr. Blondel at the Catholic University of Louvain near Brussels, who led the research effort.

    The Really Smart Phone Robert Lee Hotz 2011

  • When mathematician Vincent Blondel studied the location and billing data from one billion cellphone calls in Belgium, he found himself documenting a divide that has threatened his country's ability to govern itself.

    The Really Smart Phone Robert Lee Hotz 2011

  • Blondel A. Pinnock, President of Carver CDC, said, In its very first year, this program worked with Harlem residents to prepare 3,217 tax returns and secured more than $7.5 million in tax refunds, including $3.7 million in Earned Income Tax Credits.

    $7.5 M in Tax Refunds for Harlem Residents « 2010

  • Blondel, a member of the Royal College of Surgeons in London, made his argument in a pamphlet titled “The Strength of Imagination in Pregnant Women Examined.”

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

  • Blondel pointed out that midwives and mothers invoked the notion of maternal impressions only after some irregularity was noticed in the newborn child.

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

  • Modern critics have been harsher, as with the screenwriter George MacDonald Fraser, who hilariously wrote of The Crusades that “There is much horseplay, hearty chorus work mostly by Alan Hale as a dreadful Blondel, a tolerable assault on the walls of Acre, and some real comic-strip nonsense in which Saladin falls in love with Berengaria and Richard, if I was not deceived, becomes a convinced Christian.”

    Empire of Dreams Scott Eyman 2010

  • In 1727, doctor James Blondel took a strong stand against the idea, declaring it “a vulgar error” propagated by “tale-mongers” and “imaginationists” on “ignorant people.”

    Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

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