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  • If they continue it, Adam Fieled and Joseph Hutchison are trying to eliminate the "versus" between the so-called post-avants and the so-called SoQs.

    What poetry can learn from Obama Lemon Hound 2009

  • The Turks -- or _Vogue-avants_ as they were called -- were never molested on the score of religion; but while Mass was being said were put out of the galley into a long-boat, where they diverted themselves by smoking and talking till the Christians were through with their exercises.

    The Blue Pavilions Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • On trails blazed by latter-day Philly avants Need New Body and current standard bearers Man Man, we now see groups like Da Comrade and Circadian Rhythms scurrying adventurously along the fringes.

    The Clog 2010

  • En convoi terrestre et en helicoptère, Mme Livni a arpenté et survolé la ville de Naplouse, en compagnie des principaux commandants de l'armée israélienne, qui lui ont présenté et détaillé la situation sur le terrain, les infrastructures terroristes palestiniennes dans la ré gion de Naplouse, les points de passage palestiniens, ainsi que les avants-postes illégaux destinés à etre démantelés.

    WN.com - Articles related to Proche-Orient : Washington programme les négociations 2010

  • En convoi terrestre et en helicoptère, Mme Livni a arpenté et survolé la ville de Naplouse, en compagnie des principaux commandants de l'armée israélienne, qui lui ont présenté et détaillé la situation sur le terrain, les infrastructures terroristes palestiniennes dans la ré gion de Naplouse, les points de passage palestiniens, ainsi que les avants-postes illégaux destinés à etre démantelés.

    WN.com - Articles related to Proche-Orient : Washington programme les négociations 2010

  • En convoi terrestre et en helicoptère, Mme Livni a arpenté et survolé la ville de Naplouse, en compagnie des principaux commandants de l'armée israélienne, qui lui ont présenté et détaillé la situation sur le terrain, les infrastructures terroristes palestiniennes dans la ré gion de Naplouse, les points de passage palestiniens, ainsi que les avants-postes illégaux destinés à etre démantelés.

    WN.com - Articles related to Proche-Orient : Washington programme les négociations 2010

  • Except that station wagons are now called estates or avants or sportbacks and in recent years, I have come across a few which have rather struck my fancy.

    Jalopnik 2009

  • As the _avants-courrières_ [Transcriber's Note: avants-courriers] in art of those of their race, whom, let us hope, a fast-approaching day of better opportunities shall make plentiful enough; holding as they do their torches in the remaining darkness, to light the pathway of those that shall follow them into the bright, the delightful realms of the operatic Muse, -- theirs is therefore a beneficent, a noble mission, the continuance of which promises the happiest results for all concerned.

    Music and Some Highly Musical People James M. Trotter 1867

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