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  • Mission de ce matin apres reception du smeusse du commandeur Lilie (soeur du Pinku): Acheter un beau bouquet de fleur pour le livrer a l'heureuse maman.

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • ‘Vous rêvez, mon cher,’ he interposed: ‘le commandeur n’a plus de dents, et il crache à chaque mot.

    The Jew and other stories 2006

  • And I saw a commandeur: he asked me what I was doing there, I answered him: 'Why, I saw a ball, and I came to look -- what of it?'

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • "Monsieur le commandeur, leave my room; begone, or I shall call ----"

    Celebrated Crimes (Complete) Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • "Monsieur le commandeur," answered Angelique, "you forget, in speaking to me in that manner, I have never given you any right to control my actions."

    Celebrated Crimes (Complete) Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

  • She was also made a chevalier (later commandeur) of the Légion d'Honneur by the French government.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2009

  • I had long desired to examine a plantation drum, and see it played upon under conditions more favorable than the excitement of a holiday _caleinda_ in the villages, where the amusement is too often terminated by a _voum_ (general row) or a _goumage_ (a serious fight); -- and when I mentioned this wish to the planter he at once sent word to his commandeur, the best drummer in the settlement, to come up to the house and bring his instrument with him.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • a plantation _commandeur_ (overseer's assistant), -- a brown slip of a girl who will probably never wear shoes again.

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • a fine ball: all pasteboard people dancing there, and a pasteboard commandeur commanding them! '...

    Two Years in the French West Indies Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • 'le commandeur n'a plus de dents, et il crache à chaque mot.

    The Jew and Other Stories Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

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