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  • A farmer and the conducteur were my companions in the imperial, and could I have understood their conversation, my dear, you should have had certainly a report of it.

    Little Travels and Roadside Sketches 2004

  • A farmer and the conducteur were my companions in the imperial, and could I have understood their conversation, my dear, you should have had certainly a report of it.

    Little Travels and Roadside Sketches William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • And this logical question asked to the conducteur before getting on the bus “Do you go till Analakely?”,

    Global Voices in English » Françafrique casts shadow in Gabon, Madagascar, and Mauritania 2009

  • However, Parisiens, used to a less loquacious if not downright rude breed of conducteur de taxi, should not get their hopes up too high.

    Black cabs in Paris? Sorry, I don't go south of the Channel, mate Kim Willsher in Paris 2010

  • He took with him Pont-Gravé as “conducteur en chef” of trading operations, plus three Récollet fathers, Joseph Le Caron, Denis Jamet, and Paul Huet.22 Most important, he brought out the first French family to settle permanently in Quebec and support themselves by farming.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • He took with him Pont-Gravé as “conducteur en chef” of trading operations, plus three Récollet fathers, Joseph Le Caron, Denis Jamet, and Paul Huet.22 Most important, he brought out the first French family to settle permanently in Quebec and support themselves by farming.

    Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

  • Une voiture dont le conducteur a regardé un peu paresseusement les feux il y a un machin orange clignotant, là, pour indiquer que les piétons ont aussi le vert manque me renverser.

    “Je fais des sites internet” — Climb to the Stars 2008

  • Cependant nous ne sommes pas mesure de conclure leur absence dans toute la plante; il est trs probable que les mmes produits toxiques puissent tre mis en vidence par des mthodes purement chimiques qui ne prendraient pas comme fil conducteur l'activit biologique.

    Chapter 7 1991

  • It was not later than two o'clock in the afternoon; but to elude all suspicion, Gosnet, on alighting, went straight to the _conducteur_ (guard), and after having spoken to him, turned down a street close at hand.

    The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 389, September 12, 1829 Various

  • "Imbécile! il y a encore trois bonnes lieues à la Pissotte!" and the angry _conducteur_, who had been roused from his sleep, and climbed over and round the lumbering vehicle to the back-door, now climbed round and over again to the _banquette_.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 357, June, 1845 Various

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