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  • a good and useful medicine; which is sold to the inhabitants of Norway for a "couronnes," which is worth one franc and thirty-nine centimes.

    The Waif of the "Cynthia" Jules Verne 1866

  • Heureusement car en fait apres examen approfondi de ma dent ce n'est plus deux couronnes qu'il me faut mais deux dents sur pivot ce qui m'a valu une petite seance de toture pour ma machoire qui, elle, n'etait pas anesthesiée ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • Tout commence ce vendredi en fin d'apres midi * musique a suspense* alors que j'etais en train de trainailler sur le net je decide de commander des trucs inutiles comme d'hab 'parce que je viens de prendre conscience que je venais d'avoir ma paie et que malgre le fait que j'ai deux couronnes dentaire a remplacer ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • In 1389 Isabeau de Bavière, of dire memory, got sixty thousand _couronnes d'or_, and in 1501, and again in 1504, was presented with six thousand and ten thousand _livres parisis_ respectively.

    Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus

  • One word in conclusion: America may rest assured that her students of international literature will find in this series of 'ouvrages couronnes' all that they may wish to know of France at her own fireside -- a knowledge that too often escapes them, knowledge that embraces not only a faithful picture of contemporary life in the French provinces, but a living and exact description of French society in modern times.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Pontleroy, to America to assist in making trouble and to watch for any signs that might be turned to the advantage of les duex couronnes.

    Pioneers of the Old Southwest: a chronicle of the dark and bloody ground Constance Lindsay Skinner 1908

  • Mem. couronnes par 1'acad. royale de Belgique, vol. xvi.

    Charles the Bold Putnam, Ruth, 1856-1931 1908

  • We found an earring on one little tomb where a mother had laid her child, and on several those _couronnes des perles_, stiff, ugly wreaths brought from France, with "Sincere Regrets" in raised beads, speaking pityfully of the longing of the simple islanders to do honor to the memory of their loved ones.

    White Shadows in the South Seas Frederick O'Brien 1900

  • Et au contraire les fideles et elus seront couronnes de gloire et But on the contrary, the faithful and elect shall be crowned with d'honneur; [616] le Fils de Dieu confessera leur nom devant Dieu son

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

  • * Et au contraire les fideles et elus seront couronnes de gloire et:

    The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches. 1889

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