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  • For Racine's most famous couplet, "Ce n'est plus une ardeur dans mes veines cachée/C'est Vénus toute entière à sa proie attachée," Hughes has the less memorable "No longer a fever in my veins, Venus has fastened on me like a tiger."

    Helen Mirren Breathes Passion 2009

  • Anita discovers that she has Jean Claude's sex you up, give you the horn and sex slave you vampire ardeur powers.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Blue Tyson 2007

  • If only people would give it up -- just let it go, people, just step back from the steaming pile of arduer/ardeur/ordure and walk away.

    Archive 2007-01-01 Hal Duncan 2007

  • If only people would give it up -- just let it go, people, just step back from the steaming pile of arduer/ardeur/ordure and walk away.

    The Dufus Dollar Hal Duncan 2007

  • Aussi souvent que vous vous reflétez dans le visage de vos enfants, donnez-nous un reflet de votre lumière et de votre ardeur !

    Archive 2008-05-04 de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Aussi souvent que vous vous reflétez dans le visage de vos enfants, donnez-nous un reflet de votre lumière et de votre ardeur !

    Marie, la rose de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Over half the book is dedicated to Anita Blake getting her freak on or, as LKH likes to call it, letting loose the ardeur with Micah, the personality-free hot wereleopard who has been living with her ever since she woke up, met him, and had sex with him two or three or however many books ago I finally gave up on caring.

    High School Musical yendi 2006

  • Again, another Cupid with eyes bandaged, pouring water out of a vase to cool a flaming heart he holds in his hand, motto "Sa froideur me glace les veines et son ardeur brûle mon cœur."

    Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

  • _Jacques Martin, soldat au 170e d'infanterie, grenadier d'élite, au cours des combats du 26 et du 27 novembre, 1916, a, par son mépris du danger et par son ardeur, assuré la progression dans un boyau défendu pas à pas par l'ennemi.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, March 14, 1917 Various

  • I shall cite the author's own words: -- 'L'addresse du chien consiste à modérer son ardeur à ne s'attacher à aucun animal en particulier, mais à tenir toute la troupe en échec.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 347, September, 1844 Various

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