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  • noun Plural form of feme.

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  • I'd love to get my hands on these books not because of the 'femes' issue of banning them but because some of these are actually real gems and address a lot of deeper issues.

    Banned Books Sharon Bakar 2005

  • Last 2 years, nyaris2 nak dapat gi tengok konsert SMAP (alaaa .. kumpulan yang ada Kimura Takuya tu .. alaa .. yg dolu2 femes drama2 dia kat Malaysia tuh) tapi nasib tak menyebelahi sebab tiket dia sampai masa Cik Fieza berada di Malaysia.

    kieli Diary Entry kieli 2008

  • It is highly unlikely, however, that the remaining female account holders were all single, given population figures; some may have been widows, but it is likely that a number were married women holding accounts with the firm as if they were femes sole. 22 This is reinforced by the fact that few (and often no) supplies of basic foodstuffs appeared in the majority of these accounts.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • And these are just the women's names that have survived in the written record; they likely do not constitute an exhaustive list of all women who operated fishing premises as femes sole in the period.

    Gutenber-e Help Page 2005

  • Toutte cette Populace Susdite consistoit en vieux homes infirmes, femes, Enfants et de la jeunesse Sous l'age pour porter les armes.

    Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois 1920

  • In 1877 the General Assembly passed an act enabling married women whose husbands are insane to sell and to convey real-estate belonging to such married women, in the same way as if _femes soles_.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III (of III) Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • Even before the late statute respecting married women, they were regarded as _femes sole_ in respect to their separate property, and were as to such property liable on their contracts respecting the same, to the same extent and as though they were not under the disability of coverture.

    History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II Matilda Joslyn Gage 1862

  • Does look like a rather middle-brow collection, a cozy-club of gentle prose and schwocking femes to scare the great washed ... at least the Noble prize committee can say in their defence, that they had to choose a certain kind of novel (if only Joyce relocated to the Gulag).

    Culture | guardian.co.uk Lisa Allardice 2010

  • | Reply if got time, may drop by the femes "Cabbages & Condoms Thai Restaurant" in Bangkok … hehe

    kyspeaks.com 2009

  • Ko memang prihatin terhadap Mother Earth, ye ... eh, ekskius me, blog aku tak femes langsung,

    angeles' playground 2008

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