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Il faut savoir que lorsque je vais sur Chalons, je reviens rarement bredouille!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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Golden + Chiken maxi * bredouille a moitié endormi*
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006
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After thirty hours of travel it mattered little which hotel I stayed at, but to-morrow and the next day, the long week we were to spend together passed before my eyes, the tedium of the afternoons, the irritation and emptiness of Platonic evenings -- "Heavens! what have I let myself in for," I thought, and my mind went back over the long journey and the prospect of returning _bredouille_, as the sportsmen say.
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Knowing this, I returned his cheque to Mr. Haggard; happily, for the isle was the playroom of young earthquakes, which had upset the soil and the landmarks to such a degree that the gentleman adventurer returned -- _bredouille_!
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25) Robert Louis Stevenson 1872
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