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-- Yoshinori (1394-41), shogun (1428-41); abbot, called Gien; rule; killed; relations with China; grants Ryukyu to Shimazu
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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-- 'Gien 't had been to save her life, ye sudna hae keepit me waitin', 'says she.
Malcolm George MacDonald 1864
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I saw Dom at the Ed Gien show last saturday, and we both agreed we really wanted to do this band and get it started.
mesocyclone Diary Entry mesocyclone 2005
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“Would you be so kind, Mademoiselle, as to find the directory for Boissancourt-par-Saint-André — between Montargis and Gien — and read out the names of the subscribers.”
Maigret and the Headless Corpse Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1955
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Gien onybody gang till her wi 'my wull, it s' be a limb o 'the law.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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"Gien God thoucht the Cam'ells worth makin ', daddy, I dinna see' at I hae ony richt to compleen 'at I cam' o 'them."
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875 Various
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There was the pageantry of the Loire — Gien with its château-fortress high on its terraces, and Sully with its vast rounded bastions, and Château-Neuf-sur-Loire, and Jargeau.
Flying Colours Forester, C. S. 1938
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St. Felicule, patroness of Gien (sixth century); St. Sigismund, King of Burgundy, who, by order of the Merovingian, Clodomir, and despite the entreaties of St. Avitus, was thrown (524) into a well with his wife and children; St. Gontran, King of Orléans and Burgundy
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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It includes the arrondissement of Montargis, formerly subject to Sens, the arrondissement of Gien, once in the Diocese of Auxerre, and the canton de Châtillon sur Loire, once belonging to Bourges.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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Jeanne with her "people," her little staff, in which, now, were two of her brothers, a second having joined her after Orleans, left Gien on the 28th of June; and the next day the King very unwillingly set out.
Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896
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