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  • Swiss film director Gael Metroz was so captivated by the travel writings of Nicolas Bouvier that, in the fall of 2005, he decided to follow Bouvier's 1952 route from Geneva to Istanbul, across Central Asia, down through India to Ceylon now Sri Lanka and eventually to Japan.

    George Heymont: Every Little Steppe George Heymont 2010

  • Swiss film director Gael Metroz was so captivated by the travel writings of Nicolas Bouvier that, in the fall of 2005, he decided to follow Bouvier's 1952 route from Geneva to Istanbul, across Central Asia, down through India to Ceylon now Sri Lanka and eventually to Japan.

    George Heymont: Every Little Steppe George Heymont 2010

  • If the Bouvier's moderate fortune never entirely overcame the stigma attached to their religion, much as was the case with Jackie and Lee's ambitious mother, Janet Lee, the Beales 'charm and beauty had helped mightily to advance their basically unfettered social success.

    Michael Henry Adams: Meeting the Maysles: Grey Gardens Comes to Harlem 2009

  • So you can further understand the word Alien Enemy and what it means to be declared an enemy of this government, read the following definitions: The phrase Alien Enemy is defined in Bouvier's Law Dictionary as:

    Sound Politics: Neal Starkman Wants To Help The Republicans 2006

  • She dawdled until a crisp crack of thunder in the distance spooked her out of the meadow, her ears as plastered down as a Bouvier's cropped ears can be.

    Cold Case White, Stephen, 1951- 2000

  • She dawdled until a crisp crack of thunder in the distance spooked her out of the meadow, her ears as plastered down as a Bouvier's cropped ears can be.

    Cold Case White, Stephen, 1951- 2000

  • She dawdled until a crisp crack of thunder in the distance spooked her out of the meadow, her ears as plastered down as a Bouvier's cropped ears can be.

    Cold Case White, Stephen, 1951- 2000

  • If this is not an answer to Professor Bouvier's statement that insects have no reasoning power, I do not know what is.

    Love Conquers All Robert Benchley 1917

  • Jurists define it as "that period of life at which the law allows persons to do acts and discharge functions which, for want of years, they were prohibited from doing or undertaking before" (Bouvier's Law Dict.).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913

  • Bouvier's treatment of moral theology is remarkable; he took a decided stand against Jansenism and adopted the doctrines of St. Alphonsus; though even this reaction against rigorism did not bring his work up to the standard of the manuals of theology of the present time.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

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