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  • -- my poor master! 'said Theresa, whose feelings were more awakened than her delicacy,' Manchon's gone to look for him. '

    The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Ward Radcliffe 1793

  • "You may be small but you are so mighty," said Clare Manchon.

    Moogfest's Difficult Dilemma Jim Fusilli 2010

  • The Tehuantepec-El Manchon mangroves extend along the Gulf of Tehuantepec.

    Guatemala 2009

  • Manchon also came running, and barking before her; and when his young mistress alighted, fawned, and played round her, gasping with joy.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • Manchon who sat by her, and who now licked her hands affectionately.

    The Mysteries of Udolpho 2004

  • "Until the last," said Manchon, the recorder at the trial,

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913

  • Manchon, who had not been present, was asked to sign it; he refused.

    The Red True Story Book Andrew Lang 1900

  • Both the clerk of the court, Manchon, and Massieu, the doorkeeper, found their sympathies too perilous to express.

    The Story of Rouen Theodore Andrea Cook 1897

  • Its sole testimonial is that the manuscript is in the same hand which has written the previous records: but whereas each page in that record was signed at the bottom by responsible notaries, Manchon and his colleagues, no name whatever certifies this.

    Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896

  • Manchon, the reporter, he who had refused to take down the private conversation of Jeanne in her prison with the vile traitor, L'Oyseleur, makes his voice heard also to the effect that "Monseigneur of Beauvais would have had everything written as pleased him, and when there was anything that displeased him he forbade the secretaries to report it as being of no importance for the trial."

    Jeanne d'Arc Oliphant, Mrs. 1896

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