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French sports-car maker Venturi is developing a coupe concept called the Volage, using that principle
Motoring 2009
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The Monaco-based company's latest model, dubbed Volage, is a next-step prototype and joint venture with Michelin.
Popular Science 2008
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On November 3, the two frigates "Volage" and "Hyacinth" were attacked by twenty-nine junks-of-war off Chuenpee.
A History of the Nineteenth Century, Year by Year Volume Two (of Three) Edwin Emerson 1914
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The Paris Motor Show saw Venturi pulling the drapes on its electric GT †"the Volage, which is expected to set new trends in this side of the automotive industry.
Auto Motto 2008
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"We have seen," says Moore, "from the letters written by him on his passage homeward (on board the 'Volage' frigate) how far from cheerful or happy was the state of mind in which he returned.
Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English Teresa Guiccioli 1836
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"Dear mother" (he wrote to her on the 'Volage' frigate), "within that apathy I certainly do not comprise yourself, as I will prove by every means in my power.
Lord Byron jugé par les témoins de sa vie. English Teresa Guiccioli 1836
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Femme Volage, by contrast, is eerily light – a floating, human-like figure that seems like a phantom.
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For I could not fancy my-self endow'd with Charms sufficient to hold fast such a Volage; however, I knew my self safe under my Mother's Prudence, and my own
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In 1827 His Majesty's ship Warsprite passed through this strait in company with the Volage, twenty-eight guns, being the first English line of battleship which had ever made the attempt.
A Narrative of a Nine Months' Residence in New Zealand in 1827 Augustus Earle
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Majesty's ships Volage, 28, and Cruiser, 16 gun-brig, which had been employed in some operations about the mouth of the Indus, were accordingly ordered on this service, and sailed from Bombay December
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 330, April 1843 Various
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