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  • Upon the table there was a like importation of exotic dishes, saffron or anchovy sauces, spices mixed up with Turkish delicacies, chickens with fried almonds, and all this taken together with the banality of the interior, the gilding of the panels, the shrill ringing of the new bells, gave the impression of a _table d'hote_ in some big hotel in Smyrna or Calcutta, or of a luxurious dining-saloon on board a transatlantic liner, the "Pereire" or the "Sinai."

    The Nabob Alphonse Daudet 1868

  • This was introduced into France by Pereire and taught to the Abbe de l'Epee by Saboureux de Fontenay, the gifted pupil of

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various

  • Pereire, and actually succeeded in making the semi-deaf hear clearly.

    The Montessori Method Anne E. Montessori George 1912

  • Address: Private cars and 56 Blvd. Pereire, Paris.

    Who Was Who: 5000 B.C. to Date: Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be. 1914

  • Here Sarah Bernhardt had ordered a dozen bottles of famous old wine to be sent to the Avenue Pereire from the cellars of Frisio, and had fallen in love with a cat from Greece.

    A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • Pereire he had driven to the Gare du Nord, and taken a midnight train, which brought him at about six the next evening to Cologne.

    The Malady of the Century Max Simon Nordau 1886

  • Pereire to receive Pilar's orders, was occupied during the whole day in going on errands and doing shopping of every description, and his work over returned late in the evening to his lodging.

    The Malady of the Century Max Simon Nordau 1886

  • Where I now stood, almost alone in the gloom, the vivid imagination of those men yonder in the banquet-hall at that very hour perceived the mirage of the speculative fever crowding the decks of the Pereire steamers with imaginary colonists eager to convert their savings into mining stocks and Mexican railroad bonds, and rushing to the land of Montezuma to sow and reap a rich harvest for

    Maximilian in Mexico Sara Yorke Stevenson 1884

  • At this very time, it will be remembered, a contract was being entered upon by the French government with the house of Pereire, which was to furnish immediate home transportation for the French army.

    Maximilian in Mexico Sara Yorke Stevenson 1884

  • * The minister of war had already signed a contract with Pereire, the head of the Compagnie Transatlantique, for the home passage of the last instalment of the army during the month of

    Maximilian in Mexico Sara Yorke Stevenson 1884

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