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Hawkeye carries a rifle named Killdeer and has earned the frontier nickname La Longue Carabine, or The Long Rifle!!!
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Hawkeye carries a rifle named Killdeer and has earned the frontier nickname La Longue Carabine, or The Long Rifle!!!
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Nil sub sole novum, says Solomon; amor omnibus idem, says Virgil; and Carabine mounts with Carabin into the bark at Saint – Cloud, as Aspasia embarked with
Les Miserables 2008
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In process of time the fabulous ranges of the "_Carabine à Tige_" were heard of, and when it was ascertained that the French riflemen potted the gunners on the ramparts of Rome with such rapidity that they could not stand to their guns before a rifle nearly a mile distant, the cone shape once more turned up, and Captain Minié came forward as the champion of the old expanding ball.
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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These three combinations constitute the _Carabine à Tige_ now in general use in the
Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray
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A faint heartbeat of the street's ancient glory still survives in a corner occupied by the Café Carabine d'Or.
Whirligigs O. Henry 1886
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The Carabine d'Or is an ignominious ghost of the Rue Chartres.
Whirligigs O. Henry 1886
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On this night, after the usual meal at the Carabine d'Or, he strolled with his companion down the dim old street toward the river.
Whirligigs O. Henry 1886
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Of ready wit, dashing manners, and impish brazenness, Carabine held many successful receptions.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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SINET (Seraphine), a celebrated lorette, born in 1820, known by the sobriquet of Carabine, was present at Josepha Mirah's house-warming on the rue de la Ville-l'Eveque, in 1838.
Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865
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