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  • Gorgoyles beckoning the gauloise-wizzened barman for refills of Record 33.

    roquette 2006

  • He's as interesting in person as his blog, which presents all manner of things: philosophy, art, poetry, and (yes) language (Mots français d'origine gauloise).

    languagehat.com: MONTREAL 1. 2004

  • The mail steamer _la France_ caught fire, part of the cargo being gunpowder; the ship is about to be blown up; a foreign witness writes thus: "Tous jusqu'aux petits marmitons rivalisaient d'élan, de bravoure et de cette gaieté gauloise dans le péril qui forme un des beaux traits du caractère national."

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • (Faisant partie de la Bibliotheque gauloise publiee par Jacob.) 1857. 8vo.

    Joan of Arc Gower, Ronald Sutherland, Lord, 1845-1916 1893

  • _Poterie gauloise_ (Paris, 1872), Fig. 173, from Cologne; _Sammlung

    The Romanization of Roman Britain 1889

  • (Faisant partie de la Bibliothèque gauloise publiée par Jacob.) 1857. 8vo.

    Joan of Arc Ronald Sutherland Gower 1880

  • While the English press is today bemoaning the fact that an outright ban of smoking in enclosed public places has not been proposed in the government White Paper on health, I can’t help thinking what an outcry a similar proposal would provoke in gauloise country, where most restaurants haven’t yet complied with the little enforced Loi Evin of 1991, by introducing a non-smoking section for their clientèle non-fumeur.

    crawling off the plate 2004

  • While the English press is today bemoaning the fact that an outright ban of smoking in enclosed public places has not been proposed in the government White Paper on health, I can’t help thinking what an outcry a similar proposal would provoke in gauloise country, where most restaurants haven’t yet complied with the little enforced Loi Evin of 1991, by introducing a non-smoking section for their clientèle non-fumeur.

    Vous avez du feu? 2004

  • Daydreaming now of sitting at a terrace with a pastaga in one hand a gauloise in the other ... i'm right there with you, but sans Gauloise:)

    Serious Eats 2009

  • I think I shall call them Venetian Rings (not to be confused with Venetian Blinds). gabriela valentina (ranting for the Tercios de Flandes gauloise: life seems a bit difficult for you lately.

    Peter Bodo's TennisWorld 2008

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