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  • Duvernoy shook me down for my check, so I will join you, briefly.

    Priceless « PubliCola 2010

  • Take Henry G. Duvernoy of Duvernoy and Sons, a wholesale baking firm in New York.

    How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 1981

  • Mr. Duvernoy had been trying to sell bread to a certain New York hotel.

    How to Win Friends and Influence People Dale Carnegie 1981

  • Madame Duvernoy, who taught French and comportment, changed tables each night.

    Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

  • What we most admired her for was her imitation of Madame Duvernoy, dead drunk, playing bridge, becoming slowly aware she had forgotten to dress and was, in fact, stark naked.

    Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

  • Perhaps to console me for being the last student left, Madame Duvernoy took me to a concert.

    Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

  • Every school morning, she came to the living room before our French class began with Madame Duvernoy, to give us a brief talk on honesty, unselfishness, and social usefulness.

    Borrowed Finery, A Memoir Fox, Paula 2001

  • Of Gray, _Amphisorex_ of Duvernoy; differs in dentition from the last in having the lower quasi-incisors serrated with three or four coronal points, and the anterior point of the upper incisors not prolonged beyond the posterior spur, tipped with ferruginous; the lateral small teeth in the upper jaw are five in number, diminishing in size from the first backwards.

    Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon Robert Armitage Sterndale 1870

  • Professor Duvernoy, of the Jardin des Plantes, the latter having further supplied a valuable account of the muscular system and of many of the other soft parts; while African missionaries and travellers have confirmed and expanded the account originally given of the habits of this great man-like Ape, which has had the singular fortune of being the first to be made known to the general world and the last to be scientifically investigated.

    Lectures and Essays Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

  • Professor Duvernoy, of the Jardin des Plantes, the latter having further supplied a valuable account of the muscular system and of many of the other soft parts; while African missionaries and travellers have confirmed and expanded the account originally given of the habits of this great man-like Ape, which has had the singular fortune of being the first to be made known to the general world and the last to be scientifically investigated.

    Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature Thomas Henry Huxley 1860

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