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  • “secretly,” with a notary called Gilet, who restored them to her, still “secretly,” in 1760.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Don Gilet and Sarah Niles in truth and reconciliation at the Royal Court.

    truth and reconciliation | review 2011

  • The widow Verron pretends, that she employed her money at interest, always it appears in secrecy, with a notary of the name of Gilet, but no trace of this fact can be found in the office of that notary.

    A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

  • Gilet -- padded linen jerkin, laced; worn for breast support as well as warmth

    PYA: GLOSSARY FROM SKENISH TO ENGLISH Maggie Jochild 2004

  • Gilet -- padded linen jerkin, laced; worn for breast support as well as warmth

    Archive 2004-08-08 Maggie Jochild 2004

  • The Gilet it’s a Pete Beale Bodywarmer and that’s final

    Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is 2005

  • In return, she kissed me on both cheeks, whispered a thousand benedictions, and left the room violently sobbing; yet with a parting glance at Monsieur Gilet and his _collaborateurs_, so mingled of wrath and ridicule, that it was beyond all my deciphering.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

  • Monsieur Gilet became more heroic than ever, tore his grizzled curls, throwing aside his pistol, which he had at length discovered to be _hors de combat_, and drawing the falchion which clattered at his heels, and was nearly as long as himself, flourished it in quick march backward and forward before the mirror -- that mirror never forgotten!

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 341, March, 1844 Various

  • Maxence Gilet against the officers, Mignonnet and Carpentier, declared enemies of the chief of the "Knights of Idlesse."

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

  • RENARD, former captain in the Imperial army, withdrew to Issoudun during the Restoration; one of the officers in the Faubourg de Rome, who were hostile to the "pekins" and partisans of Maxence (Max) Gilet.

    Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 2 Anatole Cerfberr 1865

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