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Tall blonde, wii must confer on r nest espion-edge
o.m.g. Fluffy wuzn’t lyin. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Il paraît qu'il a servi comme espion sous l'ancien régime et depuis la Révolution.
Finding a Lost Prince of Bohemia Darnton, Robert 2008
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Be sure to tell passport control “Je suis un espion” — that smooths things out every time NOT!
In France « Whatever 2007
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In an afterword Stross draws interesting parallels between the Lovecraftian scholar, the Cold War espion, the hacker/computer enthusiast as depicted in popular fiction 3, and the occultist.
Atrocity Archives badger 2006
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Eh bien, vous 阾es un espion, et vous venez chercher ici des renseignemens sur le pays.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He stood with his arms hanging by his sides, head turned to look at me, something in his eyes asking for my approval, and I was moved and it caught me unawares because nothing much can ever get through the scaly carapace of this man's soul, moved by his attempt to play the espion, hiding things away, making my life easier.
Quiller Bamboo Hall, Adam 1991
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Their leader rose with some solemnity, and taking off his cap, to give the ceremonial a more authentic aspect, declared me to have forfeited the right to live, by acting the part of an _espion_, and ordered me to be shot in "front of the leading battalion of the army of vengeance."
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 337, November, 1843 Various
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And he has been an _espion_ of the Government in Portugal; what better training could he have for heading an army of traitors?
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844 Various
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One facetious French sentry insisted on talking English and flashing his lantern into the back of the ambulance, saying, "But I _will_ see the face of each Mees for fear of an espion."
Fanny Goes to War Pat Beauchamp Washington
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But all at once one of them turned round, and said to me angrily: "Veux-tu bien t'en aller, petit espion!" otherwise: "Be off, little spy!"
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887
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