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  • Every room contains twenty night camp couches, called bancs (benches,) on which lie six hundred fettered convicts, in long rows, with red garbs, heads shorn, eyes haggard, dejected countenances, whilst the perpetual clank of fetters conspires to fill the soul with horror.

    The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821

  • Cir. is too big for that, and if you still want them to produce coherence, you need more en bancs.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Cir. is too big for that, and if you still want them to produce coherence, you need more en bancs.

    Rochelle Dreyfuss on the Federal Circuit and the Supreme Court Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • Ça grouille, touristes et « locaux » envahissent les parcs, les bords de mer, les plages, les bancs du centre ville.

    manly, ballade d'hier lilasvb 2009

  • Speaking of 9th circuit en bancs, today is the en banc of Nordyke, with these judges on the panel:

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Wall Street Journal on the Comprehensive Drug Testing Case: 2009

  • On the Second or DC it is very rare, but the Sixth has 10–15 en bancs a year. thisjs anecdotal.

    The Volokh Conspiracy » Bobbie v. Bies: 2009

  • Les restes humains - le bas d'un abdomen et deux cuisses - en état de décomposition et appartenant apparemment au même homme, étaient placés entre deux bancs, le long d'une allée du Parc Duden, dans le sud de Bruxelles.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007

  • CHETRY: Well, last week, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice announced new sanctions against the Islamic Republic's military en bancs.

    CNN Transcript Oct 29, 2007 2007

  • On a donné l'électricité, donné le pétrole, sans se soucier des redevances ni de garder le contrôle, trop contents qu'on était d'avoir des emplois dans la construction, et on a laissé tout le monde épuiser les bancs de morue.

    The revenge of the Newfies? Ed Hollett 2007

  • St. Leonards, their parades and their lodging houses, their bead shops and their sweet shops and their placards and their invalids and chars – á – bancs, are all obliterated.

    The Death of the Moth, and other essays 2002

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