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  • Thibault, Les douanes chez les Romains (Paris, 1888).

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

  • So His Nibs and I, together with our Very Tired and Very Patient and Very Good-Natured children, collected our luggage and made it through customs (WITH our cactus seeds, thank you, douanes) and we made our way to the Hotel Shuttle (so's we wouldn't have to pay for a taxi, the airline works with a hotel that provides a shuttle!).

    Progressive Bloggers centre of the universe 2010

  • So His Nibs and I, together with our Very Tired and Very Patient and Very Good-Natured children, collected our luggage and made it through customs (WITH our cactus seeds, thank you, douanes) and we made our way to the Hotel Shuttle (so's we wouldn't have to pay for a taxi, the airline works with a hotel that provides a shuttle!).

    Progressive Bloggers centre of the universe 2010

  • Madagascar, j'ai expliqué aux enquêteurs qu'ils pouvaient épingler le directeur des douanes, pas le Premier ministre.

    European Tribune 2009

  • That is one of the conveniences of modern travel: however far one goes, one does not need to change trains or worry about frontier douanes. "

    Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine 2005

  • 1904-1905 (Foreign Office, 1906); Cordier, Les douanes impériales maritimes chinoise.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

  • - 4h d'avances quand on a pas a passer les douanes americaines, c'est une peu exagere ...

    TravelPod.com Recent Updates 2008

  • We'd rush the _douanes_, or whatever they call them on passes, and if we _were_ caught, what are five thousand francs? "

    The Princess Passes 1901

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