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  • Will the dishes of today seem as old-fashioned as those I had on the ship when I was 12: the chauds-froids of shrimp, veal marsalas and truffled chicken quenelles?

    What I Ate On Mars 2009

  • Will the dishes of today seem as old-fashioned as those I had on the ship when I was 12: the chauds-froids of shrimp, veal marsalas and truffled chicken quenelles?

    What I Ate On Mars 2009

  • Especially when it looks like the French themselves are getting pieds froids?

    Afstan: Que para, para 2008

  • Mais il p鑓he par la composition, Ses tableaux sont secs et froids; sa mani鑢e petite et mesquine.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Quelques instants fugaces de babillard avec des Canadiens perdus dans les grands froids.

    Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas Marie Lebert

  • Et le sombre soleil qui meurt dans ses yeux froids.

    Le Sommeil du Condor 1920

  • Mr. Samuel, a commercial gentleman who had got stuck somehow or other at the Alpha and Omega Club, cast a practised eye over the wines, chaud-froids, fruits, salads, ices, the lanterns and other joys of the evening and announced, after a rough computation, that Keith's outlay for that little show must have run well into three figures.

    South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

  • Of this opinion is the Count de Buffon himself in another part of his work*: 'en general il paroit ques les pays un peu froids conviennent mieux à nos boeufs que les pays chauds, et qu'ils sont d'autant plus gros et plus grands que le climat est plus humide et plus abondans en paturages.

    Notes on the State of Virginia. 1826

  • "_Déjeûners froids et chauds_," is an inscription which now generally figures on the exterior of a Parisian coffeehouse, beside that of

    Paris as It Was and as It Is Francis W. Blagdon 1798

  • Aux froids climats de l'ourse, et dans ceux du midi,

    A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume II (of 2) Philip Thicknesse 1755

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