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However, he set out for Limours an hour sooner than he had told us, and left word that he had his reasons for so doing, which we should know another day, advising us, if possible, to make our peace with the Court.
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The Duc d'Orleans, who was gone to Limours on pretence of taking the air, though on purpose to be absent from Parliament, being informed that the very women cried at the King's coach "No Mazarin!" and that the Prince de
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The Queen received me with wonderful respect, and bade the King embrace me, as one to whom he chiefly owed his return to Paris; but orders were sent to the Duc d'Orleans to retire next morning to Limours.
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Then Geraint told Edeyrn how Limours lay dead in his own halls, justly punished for the many wrongs he had done, and how his people were scattered.
Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion Beatrice Clay
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And at the sound of her cries came the Earl of Limours, and the host that journeyed with him, whom her lamentations brought out of their road.
The Mabinogion Vol. 2 (of 3) Owen Morgan Edwards 1889
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Therefore, it was arranged that the Duke d'Orleans should quit Paris on the day previous to that of the King's entry, and consequently he retired at first to Limours, then to Blois, the ordinary refuge of his treason and faint-heartedness, where, in nowise persecuted, but watched and kept within bounds, he passed amidst general indifference the remainder of his contemptible career.
Political Women, Vol. 2 (of 2) Sutherland Menzies 1861
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At Étampes, the people repeat that "they are sent for and paid by the flour-dealers;" at Montlhéry, that "they merely serve to arm citizens against each other;" at Limours, that "they make grain dearer."
The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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And at the sound of her cries came the Earl of Limours, and the host that journeyed with him, whom her lamentations brought out of their road.
The Mabinogion Anonymous 1853
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Thus Limours, in the tale, is not an old suitor of Enid; Edyrn does not appear to the rescue; certain cruel games, veiled in a magic mist, occur in the tale, and are omitted by the poet;
Alfred Tennyson 1842
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November, when he departed for Limours, where he was met by the two
The Life of Marie de Medicis — Volume 3 Julia Pardoe 1833
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