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  • But whereas Franck's austere yet sexy Prelude, Chorale and Fugue emerged as genuinely neglected, Chamayou didn't quite convince me that Saint-Saëns's airy Les Cloches de las Palmas or his Etude en Forme de Valse are of great substance, despite the extraordinary brilliance and panache of his performances.

    Betrand Chamayou – review 2011

  • Cloches are tunnels of clear polythene that are placed over nursery beds to raise the temperature during cooler weather.

    4.1 Nursery establishment 1999

  • Cloches are often used in horticulture for speeding up the rate of vegetable production.

    4.1 Nursery establishment 1999

  • Cloches provide a warm, sheltered microclimate for growth early in the season

    4.1 Nursery establishment 1999

  • Adjoining the ballroom, a merry-go-round; which had been the delight of the village urchins all day, appealed for custom by the aid of a barrel-organ on which a woman in a white bodice was playing the waltz from 'Les Cloches de Corneville'.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • I dispatched Michelot to the Palais Royal, where -- without permitting his motive to transpire -- he was to ascertain for me whether M. de Montrésor was in Paris, whether he still dwelt at the Hôtel des Cloches, and at what hour he could be found there.

    The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • I was still musing when Michelot returned with the information that M. de Montrésor was to be found at the Hôtel des Cloches, whither he had gone to sup a few minutes before.

    The Suitors of Yvonne: being a portion of the memoirs of the Sieur Gaston de Luynes Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Among the pieces played were, _Les Cloches_, _Chasse Neige_, _Eclogue_, _Cloches de

    Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers Harriette Brower 1898

  • The gallery thought she was too fat, the papers said she was not sprightly enough, and on Wednesday night the old _Cloches_ had to be put up.

    A Mummer's Wife 1892

  • Cloches de Corneville_, and if an incredulous look came into the faces of her guests she sang to them the little ditties, proving by her knowledge of them that all she told them was true.

    A Mummer's Wife 1892

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