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He was taken to Madrid's Model Jail Carcel Modelo where along with a sizeable group of politicians, intellectuals, and workers he was locked up to await trial.
Luis Quintanilla tellurian 2008
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Startling and strange is Gaughin's Interior of the Painter's House, rue Carcel; and the Morisot portraits are just marvellous, delicate and telling and sophisticated.
Archive 2008-07-01 Miglior acque 2008
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Startling and strange is Gaughin's Interior of the Painter's House, rue Carcel; and the Morisot portraits are just marvellous, delicate and telling and sophisticated.
Impressions and Revelations Miglior acque 2008
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Madame Hanska's estate was the only one boasting of a Carcel lamp and
Balzac Frederick Lawton
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Carcel lamp being 1, there was obtained with the Gagneau lamp with the ordinary chimney 1.113 carcels, and with the Bayle chimney 1.404 carcels.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 458, October 11, 1884 Various
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The candle has been taken as equal to 0.102 Carcel for the conversion to candles per cubic foot.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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The great walls of the prison (el Carcel) appeared at the rear of the Punta, and the hoary, weather-stained walls and towers of the cathedral were conspicuous amid the many highly-colored houses of the city.
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The duty in the original paper is given in litres per Carcel-hour.
Acetylene, the Principles of Its Generation and Use W. J. Atkinson Butterfield
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Madame Hanska's estate was the only one boasting of a Carcel lamp and a hospital.
Balzac Lawton, Frederick 1910
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After dinner, according to immemorial custom, Mrs. Archer and Janey trailed their long silk draperies up to the drawing-room, where, while the gentlemen smoked below stairs, they sat beside a Carcel lamp with an engraved globe, facing each other across a rosewood work-table with
The Age of Innocence Edith Wharton 1899
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