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  • Follette, will you please call Hugues, and I will go to bed?

    The Justice of the King Hamilton Drummond 1896

  • "Hugues," said he, "do you and these fellows ride to the coast; thence take ship for England."

    The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages James Branch Cabell 1918

  • The French authority said in its report that the companies used aliases to mask their identity at the meetings: "Hugues" for Henkel, "Pierre" for P&G and "Christian" for Colgate-Palmolive.

    Dirty Secrets In Soap Prices Max Colchester 2011

  • When Hugues de la Touche, curator of Menton's museums, agreed with Guédras's defence and declared the Wunderman collection to be of "dubious quality" and "not worthy of an establishment labelled an official French museum", he claims he lost his job.

    Jean Cocteau: France in uproar over museum 'fakes' 2011

  • RIM's large number of established BlackBerry users—and the logistical and cost hurdles of switching services—give the Waterloo, Ontario, company "advantages over Nokia and Microsoft," says Gartner analyst Hugues de la Verne .

    Nokia Preps Return to U.S. Will Connors 2011

  • On one of his walks Hugues catches sight of a woman who bears an uncanny resemblance to his late wife.

    Incarnating the World Within James Gardner 2011

  • Hugues, who did a stage in Australia before returning home, is the fourth generation of Pavelots to tend vines in Savigny.

    The Death-Defying Values of Savigny-lès-Beaune Jay McInerney 2011

  • At the same time, as Hugues walks relentlessly through the city, he comes to incarnate the Man of the Crowd, the archetype first introduced to literature in Edgar Allan Poe's tale of the same name.

    Incarnating the World Within James Gardner 2011

  • Michel Joly/The Wall Street Journal Hugues Pavelot at Les Serpentières Another overachiever in the neighborhood is Domaine Pavelot, now run by Hugues Pavelot with plenty of help from his father, Jean-Marc, the two of them genial giants who tower above their neighbors and outperform most of them.

    The Death-Defying Values of Savigny-lès-Beaune Jay McInerney 2011

  • Rodenbach's brief novel centers on Hugues Viane, a middle-age widower who, distraught at his wife's death several years before, moves to Bruges.

    Incarnating the World Within James Gardner 2011

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