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However, since he has taken considerable pains to supplement the portrait which de Gaulle gives of himself in Memoirs of Hope: Renewal and Endeavor with the picture which André Malraux paints in Les chenes qu'on abat, I thought it important that your readers know that Holt, Rinehart and Winston will be publishing the latter book under the title of Felled Oaks: Conversation with de Gaulle April 24.
Fallen Oaks Coming Wallace, Thomas C. 1972
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La gloire de Napoleon crut en une nuit, comme la vigne de Jonas, et il suffit d'un jour pour la fletrir; la gloire de Wellington est comme les vieux chenes qui ombragent le chateau de ses peres sur les rives du Shannon; le chene croit lentement; il lui faut du temps pour pousser vers le ciel ses branches noueuses, et pour enfoncer dans le sol ces racines profondes qui s'enchevetrent dans les fondements solides de la terre; mais alors, l'arbre seculaire, inebranlable comme le roc ou il a sa base, brave et la faux du temps et l'effort des vents et des tempetes.
Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell 1837
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For example: in the churchwarden's account book (c. 1525) of All Saints, Derby, occurs an entry beginning: "These be the bokes in our lady Chapell tyed with chenes yt were gyffen to Alhaloes church in Derby --
Old English Libraries; The Making, Collection and Use of Books During the Middle Ages 1911
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