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  • Sanglier to say if he is instructed in the more mysterious and secret terms of the science, by which the more learned do emblematically, and as it were parabolically, express to each other what is conveyed to others in the ordinary language, taught in the very accidence as it were of

    Quentin Durward 2008

  • Sanglier is French for wild boar, the hairy, wiry cloth resembling the coat of the animal.

    Textiles For Commercial, Industrial, and Domestic Arts Schools; Also Adapted to Those Engaged in Wholesale and Retail Dry Goods, Wool, Cotton, and Dressmaker's Trades

  • A couple of hours after the engagement in the Marquis de Condillac's apartments at the Sanglier Noir at La Rochette, Monsieur de Garnache, attended only by Rabecque, rode briskly into France once more and made for the little town of Cheylas, which is on the road that leads down to the valley of the Isere and to Condillac.

    Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Garnache strode into the chamber -- spacious and handsomely furnished as became the best room of the Auberge du Sanglier Noir -- to find a meal spread on the table, steaming with an odour promising of good things, but neglected by the guest for the charms of the serving-wench, whose waist he had imprisoned.

    Saint Martin's Summer Rafael Sabatini 1912

  • Finding it impossible to decide which tells the truth, Sir Artegall decrees that the second lady shall be beheaded also, but, while Sanglier readily agrees to this Solomon-like judgment, the true lover vehemently pleads for the lady's life, declaring he would rather know her safe than be proved right.

    The Book of the Epic 1894

  • Charles-Sanglier and Des Albanais, is called the _Maison de Diane de

    In Château Land Anne Hollingsworth Wharton 1886

  • "Silence for Bleu Sanglier," cried the Prince, gravely.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Sanglier, a packaging company, wants an admin assistant on £11,500 to £13,500 a year.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Sanglier, a packaging company, wants an admin assistant on £11,500 to £13,500 a year.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • West Indies not to be humbugged; but I wonder whether Captain O'Brien was the second lieutenant of the _Sanglier_.

    Peter Simple Frederick Marryat 1820

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