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  • Présenté dans un 'cha ba ko', caissette-écrin en bois habillée de papier noir, ce thé blanc exceptionnel est constitué des jeunes bourgeons du Yin Zhen parfumés par de tendres boutons de rose.

    IMBB? #17: TasteTea: Tea, Shoes and Sympathy @ Mariage Frères 2005

  • This manual is a translation and adaptation of "La plante la tige, les bourgeons, les feuilles," published by the Agri - Service - Afrique of the Institut africain pour le dveloppement conomique et social (INADES), and forms part of a series.

    Chapter 2 1976

  • La fleur de l’églantier sent ses bourgeons éclore.

    La Nuit de Mai 1920

  • Sur vos jeunes bourgeons nous verserons nos pleurs:

    La Mort d'un Chêne 1920

  • “Les saules trempés, et des bourgeons sur les ronces—

    Dans le Restaurant Thomas Stearns 1920

  • The horse-chestnut bourgeons burst their sheaths to spread into trefoils and flame-shaped leaves.

    The Pit: A Story of Chicago 1903

  • The horse-chestnut bourgeons burst their sheaths to spread into trefoils and flame-shaped leaves.

    The Pit Frank Norris 1886

  • Reality _falls_ in passing into conceptual analysis; it _mounts_ in living its own undivided life -- it buds and bourgeons, changes and creates.

    A Pluralistic Universe Hibbert Lectures at Manchester College on the Present Situation in Philosophy William James 1876

  • A few steps below the cross of which, according to Torquato, the parish priest had dreamed, they met a _bourgeons_ dressed in black, who was coming down, riding a mule.

    The Saint Antonio Fogazzaro 1876

  • While the rich giver is saying, "Poor fellow, he will be just as bad next month again!" the poor fellow is breathing the airs of paradise, reaping more joy of life in half a day than his benefactor in half a year, for help is a quick seed and of rapid growth, and bourgeons in a moment into the infinite aeons.

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

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