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  • "Glorieux" out of the mêlée, but the captain of the "Glorieux," De

    Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

  • Between the "Glorieux," the ship immediately opposed to Rodney's flagship, the "Formidable," and the next Frenchman in the line, the "Diadème," a wide gap was opening up.

    Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima John Richard Hale

  • The "Glorieux" (for that was the name of the privateer who took us) saw nothing farther in five weeks worth her notice, which very much discouraged the men; and consulting together, it was agreed to cruise more northward, between Sierra Leone and Cape de Verde; but about noon next day they spied a sail coming west-north-west with a fresh gale.

    Life And Adventures Of Peter Wilkins, Vol. I. (of II.) Robert Paltock 1732

  • Letel: "Sylvanus est un acharné proslave, en 1999, il soutenait à mort les ..." septembre 12, 2008 à 08: 47 michael: "Ah Silvanus, un autre" Glorieux ", un Margotte du genre ..." septembre 12, 2008 à 08: 38 michael: "Pauvre pauvre Hussein (dit le K comme pour Kadrik …) ..." septembre 12, 2008 à 07: 38

    ExtremeCentre.org 2008

  • [Footnote 84: Destouches, "Glorieux," v. 3.] [Footnote 85: Act ii, sc.

    A History of English Prose Fiction Bayard Tuckerman

  • Weir has made a specialty out of Messiaen's organ works, and these selections from Les Corps Glorieux, and La nativité du Seigneur were a highlight of the evening.

    Walls of Sound 2009

  • In the wake of the post–All Star Game implosion by Les Glorieux, underscored by a seemingly endless litany of public embarrassments off the ice, and the subsequent playoff sweep at the hands of their age-old rivals, the Boston Bruins, the Habs were ripe for a reboot.

    Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010–2011 Rob Higgins 2010

  • In the wake of the post–All Star Game implosion by Les Glorieux, underscored by a seemingly endless litany of public embarrassments off the ice, and the subsequent playoff sweep at the hands of their age-old rivals, the Boston Bruins, the Habs were ripe for a reboot.

    Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010–2011 Rob Higgins 2010

  • In the wake of the post–All Star Game implosion by Les Glorieux, underscored by a seemingly endless litany of public embarrassments off the ice, and the subsequent playoff sweep at the hands of their age-old rivals, the Boston Bruins, the Habs were ripe for a reboot.

    Higgins Hockey Fantasy Index 2010-2011 Rob Higgins 2010

  • Glorieux, “which is the most natural resemblance for a Flemish army.”

    Quentin Durward 2008

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