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  • If he must stay in Orbe, he would make Orbe his university and extract from it the kind of degree which it offered.

    Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz 1939

  • The two boys still tramped the highways on their way home which was now in Orbe.

    Runner of the Mountain Tops: The Life of Louis Agassiz 1939

  • Passing to the northern slope of this range of the Jura, the Orbe is a remarkable example of the same sort of thing, flowing out peacefully in very considerable bulk from an arch at the bottom of a perpendicular rock of great height.

    Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

  • In spite of M. d'Orbe's efforts to reconcile them, a meeting was arranged to take place as soon as mylord Edouard's leg was better.

    The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Various 1910

  • Christina Orbe, a local blues singer with a voice that could knock down a brick house, is playing at Conor Byrne (which is, I hear, a sweet place to hang out).

    A Lineup of Sustainability Geniuses « PubliCola 2010

  • A quieter, deeper achievement, Jos é Mar í a Orbe ' s meditative " Aita, " aka " Father " 2010, unfolds in a 13th-century Basque villa where the director spent much of his childhood and an elderly caretaker resides amid the ghosts of the past, occasionally seen in flickering images projected on the mansion ' s ancient walls.

    Spanish Cinema Magic Kristin M. Jones 2010

  • This is one of the chunks other reviewers felt could have been cut, and perhaps I indeed should have followed Faulkner's dictum that writers have to "kill their darlings," but I still love that part of the story, so I'm glad Orbe-Smith did too.

    Glowing Shelter Review Susan Palwick 2007

  • Orbe-Smith doesn't think the book's perfect -- neither do I, heaven knows!

    Archive 2007-07-01 Susan Palwick 2007

  • This is one of the chunks other reviewers felt could have been cut, and perhaps I indeed should have followed Faulkner's dictum that writers have to "kill their darlings," but I still love that part of the story, so I'm glad Orbe-Smith did too.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Susan Palwick 2007

  • Orbe-Smith doesn't think the book's perfect -- neither do I, heaven knows!

    Glowing Shelter Review Susan Palwick 2007

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