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  • Cheers to the guy who figured this hack out, he should be credited for starting these companys to get the shaft cause the way they monipulate the laws it is finally comeing back to huant them.

    WoW! Sony DRM v The Warden 2005

  • We went to their usual huant, Caffè dell'Accademia, all the memories!

    My new favourite bookshop Miglior acque 2005

  • Cheers to the guy who figured this hack out, he should be credited for starting these companys to get the shaft cause the way they monipulate the laws it is finally comeing back to huant them.

    WoW! Sony DRM v The Warden 2005

  • We went to their usual huant, Caffè dell'Accademia, all the memories!

    Archive 2005-07-01 Miglior acque 2005

  • The hoot of the tawny owl, the chat huant, was a recognition signal among the peasant guerrilla fighters of Britanny ( "les Chouans") who remained loyal to the crown in the French Revolution.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • The hoot of the tawny owl, the chat huant, was a recognition signal among the peasant guerrilla fighters of Britanny ( "les Chouans") who remained loyal to the crown in the French Revolution.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • The hoot of the tawny owl, the chat huant, was a recognition signal among the peasant guerrilla fighters of Britanny ( "les Chouans") who remained loyal to the crown in the French Revolution.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • From his solitary life he had acquired such sombre, wild, melancholy habits, that people gave him the name of Chouan, Maine patois for Chat-huant, and his family received the sobriquet long before the insurrection of 1792.

    Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

  • (C’était dans un grand bois,) il voit un chat-huant

    Le Philosophe et le Chat-huant 1920

  • One of their ancestors, a misanthropical woodcutter, a morose peasant, kept himself aloof from the other peasants as the _chat-huant_ (screech-owl) keeps aloof from the other birds; hence the name Chouan, a corruption of _chat-huant_.

    The Companions of Jehu Alexandre Dumas p��re 1836

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