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  • Orders were given, in case of Lamotte's approach, not to alarm or fire on him without a certainty of killing or taking the whole.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • "Burrill's beastly high to-night," said a factory hand, setting down his beer glass and wiping his mouth; "and the boys freeze to him since he handles old Lamotte's rocks."

    The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch

  • Lamotte's; he did not like to be so widely separated from his patron, even for a few days, and especially now; but it was too late to make an amendment to this state of affairs, so he contented himself with a segar and Frank's society.

    The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch

  • Ten printed sheets of the woman Lamotte's libels contain nothing so injurious to the character of Marie Antoinette as these lines, written by a man whom she honoured by undeserved kindness.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • So, according to Miss Wardour, may Satan fly away with her, I am not to approach the Lamotte's, I am to lose my reward, I am to retire from the field like a whipped cur.

    The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch

  • "It's Lamotte's landau," said the lawyer, peeping out from the shelter of his verandah; "it's Lamotte's carriage, and it's Lamotte himself; I would like to see how he looks, just for one moment; but it's too wet, and I must go tell the old woman how her favorite doctor faces the situation."

    The Diamond Coterie Lawrence L. Lynch

  • Opinion in the city was divided as to the truth of his account of Mme. de Lamotte's elopement.

    A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

  • On hearing of Mme. de Lamotte's contemplated visit to Paris, Derues was filled with alarm.

    A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

  • In the meantime Derues, through his bustling and ubiquitous friend Bertin, took good care that the story of Mme. de Lamotte's sale of Buisson-Souef and subsequent elopement should be spread sedulously abroad.

    A Book of Remarkable Criminals 1918

  • But of course her grandmother Lamotte's eyes were dark as treacle!

    The Forsyte Saga - Complete John Galsworthy 1900

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