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Rousseau, we remember, mentions such sand as the proper material to be resorted to by one who would be very particular in his correspondence, -- "_employant pour cela le plus beau papier doré, séchant l'écriture avec de la poudre d'azur et d'argent_"; and Moore repeats the precept in the example of M. le Colonel Calicot, according to the text of Miss Biddy, in the "Fudge Family in Paris": --
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The other bearing would, in English, be blazoned, Checquy of nine pieces, or and azure: and in French, _Cinq points d'or, équipollés à quatre d'azur_.
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_Mon ami_, did ever hear of a bourgeois handling sword as you, or bearing arms _un coq d'or griffe de sable, en champ d'azur_?
Orrain A Romance S. Levett-Yeats
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Tribunal, handed down a few years since, which establishes the right to the head of the house to bear the _écu plein de France -- d'azur a trois fleurs de lys d'or_, thus establishing the Orleans legitimacy.
Royal Palaces and Parks of France Blanche McManus
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Dieu juste! et fait entrer dans l'homme tant d'azur
The Idea of Progress An inguiry into its origin and growth 1894
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I had come a thousand miles to see her, and I could not say I was going to take the _Côte d'azur_ back again, because she would not let me stay at her hotel; to do so would be too childish, too futile.
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You have been looking at the bay for the last three weeks, and _La côte d'azur_ has become nothing to you now but palms and promenades.
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A small stone altar occupies the apsidal end, and here, as in two or three other places, the arms of Montaigne will be noted with interest by those who have read in the essays: '_Je porte d'azur semé de trèfles d'or, à une patte de lyon de mesme armée de gueules, mise en face_.'
Two Summers in Guyenne Edward Harrison Barker 1885
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Berthe aux grands yeux d'azur, viens ô viens avec nous!
In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences Felix Moscheles 1875
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'Berthe aux grands yeux d'azur, on a chanté sans toi!'
In Bohemia with Du Maurier The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences Felix Moscheles 1875
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