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Behind Grand-Pre, for example, Grand-Pre which is on the wrong-side of the Argonne, for we are now forced and rounded, -- the full heart, in one of those wheelings and shewings of new front, did as it were overset itself, as full hearts are liable to do; and there rose a shriek of sauve qui peut, and a death-panic which had nigh ruined all!
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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LetsRoll911. org, citing de Grand-Pre, identifies the pilot: “Major Rick Gibney fired two Sidewinder missiles at the aircraft and destroyed it in midflight at precisely 0958.”
Think Progress » VIDEO: Rumsfeld Confronted By Soldier Over Equipment Shortages In Iraq 2006
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LetsRoll911.org, citing de Grand-Pre, identifies the pilot: “Major Rick Gibney fired two Sidewinder missiles at the aircraft and destroyed it in midflight at precisely 0958.”
Think Progress » 9/11 Conspiracy Theory Redux: Malkin Argues That Qana Was An Inside Job 2006
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Grand-Pre -- handsome little boys and girls, the kind with which Raphael frames his Madonnas.
The Greater Love George T. McCarthy
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The general announced, moreover, in the confidence of his sublime ignorance, that a column of one hundred thousand men was on the way from Grand-Pre to attack them, while another, of sixty thousand, was coming up by the way of Sainte-Menehould.
The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871
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Therefore he had sent out the 4th hussars to reconnoiter the country as far as the defiles of Grand-Pre and Croix-aux-Bois, with strict orders not to return without intelligence.
The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871
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Grand-Pre road, extending straight away to a seemingly infinite distance between two rows of handsome trees.
The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871
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Grand-Pre was a matter of surprise, considering the distances.
The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871
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Two hours later a courier came galloping in, breathless with terror, to announce that General Bordas had positive information that the enemy were on the Vouziers road, and dared not leave Grand-Pre.
The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871
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The rumor spread that General Bordas had sent in a courier to announce that he had encountered the enemy in force at Grand-Pre and had been compelled to fall back on Buzancy, which gave cause to apprehend that he might soon be cut off from retreat on Vouziers.
The Downfall ��mile Zola 1871
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