Lavalle

I mean, Colson Whitehead, Victor Lavalle ... they made it because they were better than pretty much everyone else.

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April makes no difference to the Lavalle cork tree imported from central Japan; to the Sakhalin cork, its diamond bark rising into branches from a trunk of plated sand.

Rue Family 2006

April makes no difference to the Lavalle cork tree imported from central Japan; to the Sakhalin cork, its diamond bark rising into branches from a trunk of plated sand.

Rue Family 2006

Rosas, with peasant support, vanquished Lavalle at Puente de Márquez.

b. South America 2001

It was captured by the Argentine general Lavalle in 1827, and figured conspicuously in most of the civil wars of Argentina.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

Lavalle, in the civil wars of the Argentine Republic, the poor fugitives had to suffer the most horrible privations, which can be imagined.

Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce E. R. Billings

Cerrito, Libertad and Talcahuano, the vicinity of the Plazas Parque and Lavalle, and he will be staggered to see how all the houses have been riddled by mitrailleuses and rifle bullets.

Through Five Republics on Horseback, Being an Account of Many Wanderings in South America G. Whitfield Ray

Argentine Republic, General Lavalle, who had taken the field against his opponents, was utterly defeated and shot.

A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914

Father Lavalle is at the other end of town, and Father O'Hara lives by the Noviciate.

The Long Roll Mary Johnston 1903

Lavalle, descend and make reparation for outrage of domicile.

Actions and Reactions Rudyard Kipling 1900