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  • We slipped beneath the chasses, into mascaras of mud.

    Fray Sean Lovelace 2011

  • The next two hours fly by in a confusing flurry of chasses and twizzles, slip steps and rocker turns, Mohawks, Choctaws, jumps, hops, and spins.

    Pies & Prejudice Heather Vogel Frederick 2010

  • Even worse, trashing all these cars is a monumental waste of precious resources – and all the energy and effort it took to extract metallic ores, hydrocarbons and other raw materials from the Earth, process and refine them, create alloys and plastics, and turn them into engines, chasses, windows, tires and interiors.

    Errors of Enchantment » Taxpayer cash for clunker ideas 2009

  • It seemed like there was a lot of strutting forward, wide jazzy chasses across the stage, but other than a couple of spins and body rolls thrown in, there didn't seem to be a lot of original movement.

    Tonya Plank: So You Think You Can Dance Top Eight, and Desmond Richardson! 2008

  • So, the next time you pull your gas-guzzling SUV (men love 'em because they think they're driving trucks, which they are, car bodies on truck chasses (the cheapest chasses to make)) into your Exxon-Mobil station and 20 gallons cost you $80, don't bitch, don't get mad at Exxon-Mobil, hell they made more profits than any company in the history of profits, which means they're a great corporation.

    A Little Hurting Truth The Daily Growler 2006

  • If one may give credit to the weekly histories of Monsieur Roderigue, the finest writer among the moderns; not only des chasses brillantes et nombreuses des operas ou les acteurs se surpassent les jours des Saints de L.L. A.A. E.E. serenissimes celebres; en grand gala; but to crown the whole,

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • "Extrait d'un Journal de chasses pendant un séjour dans l'Inde."

    Works Cited 2002

  • As we were about to return to Paris, we met a friend of M. Gaston M.nier on his way from the latter's country-house near Villa-Cotterets, where the memorable _chasses à courre_ take place in the forest, which, under normal conditions, abounds in deer and stags.

    Paris War Days Diary of an American Charles Inman Barnard

  • At present it possesses 70 chasses and nearly 1000 relics.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • Italy was often work commissioned by the Church for use in the ceremonials of the service, and figures of Christ and of the saints, ornaments for copes, chasses in which to put relics, and vessels for use at the altar, belonging to this period of primitive art are the direct result of the teaching of the Church.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

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