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  • Would it be the languid lagoons of Cousine Island in the Seychelles, which boasts its own on-site ecologist?

    Hypocrisy of champagne environmentalists is deceitful and distracting | Ed Gillespie 2011

  • Among the writers who have to endure the lash of his youthful scorn are Balzac ( "The bathos of style & thought [in Cousine Bette] is so enormous that I wonder is he writing seriously or in parody") and Goethe (than whose drama Tasso "anything more disgusting would be hard to devise").

    The Making of Samuel Beckett Coetzee, J.M. 2009

  • Cousin, Cousine (1975) - Saucy Gallic concoction has two distant cousins (Marie-Christine Barrault and Victor Lanoux) meeting at a wedding, and gradually embarking on a very sweet, light-hearted affair, much to the consternation of their respective neurotic, high-maintenance spouses.

    John Farr: 15 Top Movies That Should Be On DVD, But Aren't 2009

  • Conserving the Seychelles Warbler Acrocephalus seychellensis by translocation from Cousin Island to the islands of Aride and Cousine.

    Granitic Seychelles forests 2008

  • His daughter, Danielle Thompson, who co-authored many of his most famous screenplays (including "Rabbi Jacob"), is a successful director and screenwriter in her own right, most famous in America for her screenplay for "Cousin, Cousine."

    Tom Teicholz: The Mad Adventures of Gerard Oury 2008

  • Hollywood filmmakers watch a particular sort of French romp -- "Cousin, Cousine" and "Trois Hommes et un Couffin" spring immediately to mind -- and plan a remake in English.

    'Stop-Loss' Lets Clichés 2008

  • It's all gone now 'cause I had Ma Cousine over in preparation for:

    I am a Busy Bee. Fathorse 2007

  • It's all gone now 'cause I had Ma Cousine over in preparation for:

    Archive 2007-11-01 Fathorse 2007

  • No writer can beat _Cousine Bette_ -- not even Wm.

    So you want to be a writer ... Frank Wilson 2007

  • Cousine, thine unkinde usage by thine husband, is not unknown to me, how he did beate thee (beyond the compasse of all reason) when he brought home stones from the plain of Mugnone; in which regard,

    The Decameron 2004

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