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Worse still: his portrait is missing from his room, and is discovered 'salement placarde a la porte des lieux d'aisance'!
The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Worse still: his portrait is missing from his room, and is discovered 'salement placarde a la porte des lieux d'aisance'!
Memoirs of Casanova — Volume 30: Old Age and Death Giacomo Casanova 1761
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Toute mon admiration pour ta gestion relationnelle, ton aisance et ton enthousiasme.
Talk: Languages on the Internet at Google — Climb to the Stars 2007
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Toute mon admiration pour ta gestion relationnelle, ton aisance et ton enthousiasme.
Talk: Languages on the Internet at Google — Climb to the Stars 2007
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Il ne se plaint pour ainsi dire jamais (il est rarement malade) et se laisse facilement absorber par son metier ou son activité de chef de famille, role qu'il soutient avec aisance et souvent passion.
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2004
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But now you must imagine both ladies with that agreeable _aisance_, that air of the world of the _ancien régime_, courteous, entertaining, without the slightest affectation, speaking French as well as any
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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But now, you must imagine both ladies with that agreeable 'aisance,' that air of the world of the
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She has no idea of mauvaise honte or embarrassment; her manners are not the most refined, and affect the aisance and levity of the fashionable world, which, however, do not sit calmly or naturally upon her.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century Paston, George, d. 1936 1902
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A plain, homely way of life: nothing for show, and very little for — what shall I call it? — for the senses: but a great aisance, and a lot of money, out of sight, that comes forward very quietly for subscriptions to institutions, for repairing tenements, for paying doctor's bills; perhaps even for portioning daughters. &cdq;
The Europeans 1878
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_aisance_ and levity of the fashionable world, which, however, do not sit calmly or naturally upon her.
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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