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  • Vincent Moscato, the former hooker of Bordeaux-Begles and France, plays Pompon, a lovable village idiot who turns out to be an idiot savant.

    French game given timely lift by a fictional All Black | Richard Williams 2011

  • But in his own name in his pub - lished works there are striking instances of Pompon - azzi's acceptance of philosophy as absolute truth, and his discovery of a human origin for religious doctrines.

    DOUBLE TRUTH MARTIN PINE 1968

  • It was Pompon, Le Brusquet's ape, and he looked into my face with soft, melancholy eyes.

    Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

  • Whereat every one laughed, and Pompon, hearing the sounds, hopped in through the window, and helped himself to another plum.

    Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

  • In answer, the little ape turned his ribald wit upon me; but now a head appeared above the parapet, a hand seized Pompon and drew him back, and

    Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

  • I said I was alone; but that is not exactly the case, as Pompon was, of course, with me, and the ape had one of his evil fits.

    Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats

  • Tapageuse (1880, 3 vols.); Pompon, and Une Femme d'Argent (1881); La

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • "Nunc autem, quia circumcisio spiritalis esse apud fideles servos Dei coepit, spiritali gladio superbi et contumaces necantur, dum de Ecclesia ejiciuntur" (Ep. lxxii, ad Pompon., n. 4) religion being now spiritual, its sanctions take on the same character, and excommunication replaces the death of the body.

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

  • My anceztor 'they are _name_' Pompon for that li'l 'gray spot.'

    The Flower of the Chapdelaines George Washington Cable 1884

  • This Pondevèz, a waif and estray of the life of the Quarter, a twentieth year student well known in all the fruit-shops of Boulevard Saint-Michel under the name of Pompon, was not a bad man.

    The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) Alphonse Daudet 1868

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