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  • He then looked most expressively in Vandeleur's face, and says, "Yes, they say the English fought well, but had it not been for one General Bandelo, the French would have gained the day."

    The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B. 1903

  • 'Are you --' I began, 'is your name Vandeleur; are you the boys at school with Gerard Nestor?'

    My New Home Mrs. Molesworth 1880

  • He married Beryl Garcia, {12} one of the beauties of Costa Rica, and, having purloined a considerable sum of public money, he changed his name to Vandeleur and fled to England, where he established a school in the east of Yorkshire.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • I learn at the British Museum that he was a recognised authority upon the subject, and that the name of Vandeleur has been permanently attached to a certain moth which he had, in his Yorkshire days, been the first to describe.

    The Seriously Deranged Writer and the Model Cars 2010

  • So gracefuleigh the mesmerist-songstress-mage figured it would be a great way to deliver her mojo to Vandeleur and purge the Martian programming out of his skull.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

  • So they get gnosticpi the cold-projecting samurai who Vandeleur had thought was immobilized keeping the ship from, you know, dissolving to knock Vandeleur out, and they pop a helmet on his head.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

  • They further assume that since Vandeleur has a diamond skull full of Evil Martian Quantum Programming, he's going to somehow taint the Sun's diamond and make everything worse.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

  • The players (and the PCs) don't trust Vandeleur, who hasn't told them how he plans to actually, you know, take the diamond ("the size of the Isle of Skye") out of the Sun.

    Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2008

  • Caine sought advice from the real Vandeleur, who was a technical advisor on set.

    Films of Michael Caine #30: A Bridge Too Far DAVID BISHOP 2006

  • ‘Michael Caine was first class,’ Vandeleur told the Daily Express.

    Films of Michael Caine #30: A Bridge Too Far DAVID BISHOP 2006

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