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  • "Then, secondly," continued Mr. Holiday, "there is Vevay, which is famous for a new and fashionable hotel facing the lake, with a beautiful terrace between it and the water, where you can sit on nice benches under the trees, and watch the steamers going by over the blue waters of the lake, or the row boats and sail boats coming and going about the terrace landing, or the fleecy clouds floating along the sides of the dark mountains around the head of the lake."

    Rollo in Geneva Jacob Abbott 1841

  • • Army Sgt. Kenneth R. Booker, 25, Vevay, Ind.; died in Mukhisa of wounds sustained when an explosive detonated near his vehicle; was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, Fort Lewis, Wash.

    November 2007 2007

  • Booker, 25, of Vevay, Ind., was killed Nov. 14 when an explosive detonated near his vehicle in Mukhisa.

    November Iraq glimpses 2007

  • It then seemed to him intolerable to remain at Gersau, and he set out for Vevay by the longest route, starting sooner than was necessary.

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • It then seemed to him intolerable to remain at Gersau, and he set out for Vevay by the longest route, starting sooner than was necessary.

    Albert Savarus 2007

  • To Geneva, to Lausanne, along the level margin of the lake to Vevay, so into the winding valley between the spurs of the mountains, and into the valley of the Rhone.

    No Thoroughfare 2007

  • Meantime Isaac, the son of the Sieur de Caille, who was by courtesy styled the Sieur de Rougon, assiduously applied himself to his studies, and, as the result of over-work, fell into a consumption, of which he died at Vevay on the 15th of February 1696.

    Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

  • Vevay, Ind. _Dear Sir: _ Inclosed please find invoice of goods amounting to

    Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 Barkham Burroughs

  • Ludlow died at Vevay, in Switzerland, in 1693, and the Memoirs were published at Vevay shortly after.

    Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850 Various

  • Provençal Court, which had paid no attention to the documents which they had forwarded from Lausanne and Vevay, to prove the residence and death of the son of the Sieur de Caille in Switzerland was insulting, addressed a letter to the King, and the whole affair was considered by his Majesty in council at Fontainebleau.

    Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

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