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When the flask became low, and was replaced by another, he appeared to have lost much of his constrained air, and seemed forgetting rapidly the suspicious circumstances which he supposed attached to me -- waxed wondrous confidential and communicative, and condescended to impart some traits of a life which was not without its vicissitudes, for he had been, as I suspected, one of the "Guarde" -- the old guarde -- was wounded at Marengo, and received the croix d'honneur in the field of Wagram, from the hands of the Emperor himself.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Volume 4 Charles James Lever 1839
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When the flask became low, and was replaced by another, he appeared to have lost much of his constrained air, and seemed forgetting rapidly the suspicious circumstances which he supposed attached to me -- waxed wondrous confidential and communicative, and condescended to impart some traits of a life which was not without its vicissitudes, for he had been, as I suspected, one of the "Guarde" -- the old guarde -- was wounded at Marengo, and received the croix d'honneur in the field of Wagram, from the hands of the Emperor himself.
The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer — Complete Charles James Lever 1839
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This distinguishes it from the two main modern videogaming schools of dealing with "bad" behaviour: in school A, wrong actions are punished directly (e.g. if you kill too many innocent bystanders, you'll lose points/be sent back to the start of the level/be attacked by the cops or Ye Olde Towne Guarde).
I play videogames so you don't have to amuchmoreexotic 2008
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On the fateful day of Waterloo when the last two battalions of the French Old Guarde were surrounded by Prussians and English they were offered to surrender.
On My Word of Honor 2007
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The French Guarde died on that day but the new France remained and the honor achieved by the Great Revolution and Napoleon could not be taken back.
On My Word of Honor 2007
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Discuss the many worlds the Le Guarde children inhabited and how their divided loyalties left them homeless in every sense of the word.
Welcome To The World, Baby Girl by Fannie Flagg: Questions 1998
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Officier demandoit, de lui, de le faire un Capitaine, d'une Guarde deson sa Vie.
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Guarde, which for the tyrauntes defence, diligently attended about him.
The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1 William Painter
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Guarde nuestro Señor vuestras muy Reverendas personas. '
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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Guarde nuestro Senor vuestras muy Reverendas personas.
Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921
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