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But the author does the readers a disfavor by not explaining the well known mechanism by which wood, over time, by absorbing and expelling the liquor, adds sugars and traps harsh alcohols called fusils.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Tony Sachs 2011
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Sortez de la paille les fusils, la mitraille, les grenades;
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Sortez de la paille les fusils, la mitraille, les grenades ;
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Among their most famous documentaries are Le ciel, la terre (1965), about the origins of the war in Viet Nam; The 17th Parallel, Le peuple et ses fusils, and La guerre populaire au Laos (all 1968, all made in conjunction with the North Vietnamese and all about the Laotian popular struggle); and the highly-acclaimed series of twelve films about China, How Yukong Moved the Mountains (1976).
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The three broad men, with heavy fusils cocked, came up from the sea mouth of the Dike, steadily panting, and running steadily with a long-enduring stride.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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The republicans at the head of the column, who had not themselves been struck, fired their fusils into the hedges, but their fire did no injury; it was all lost among the leaves, for the men who had attacked them were kneeling on their knees or lying on their bellies, and in the confusion which they had occasioned, were reloading their muskets.
La Vend�e 2004
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They consisted of four battaillons of foot, and all well armed with fusils and pitchforks, and three squadrons of horse.
Old Mortality 2004
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Sailors boiled around us now, some flourishing fusils, some bloody knives.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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A few had fusils like Sidero's, and a few bore calivers like those we had used to capture Zak.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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She and the rest bore calivers, arms much like fusils, but with somewhat shorter though thicker stocks and more slender barrels.
The Urth of the New Sun Wolfe, Gene 1987
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