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  • Par tout le parc les platanes portent le ciel, et quelques-uns dans leur cime l'oiseau espiègle du soleil.

    Archive 2009-09-01 David McDuff 2009

  • L'homme et l'oiseau, IV: 259-268 de Smet, K. (1989).

    Tassili N'Ajjer National Park, Algeria 2008

  • He is l'oiseau rare: the great hero who is come to cure all our ills.

    The mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • He is l'oiseau rare: the great hero who is come to cure all our ills.

    the mission song Le Carre, John, 1931- 2006

  • An outsider with a funny name l'oiseau=the bird, Loiseau left his apprenticeship with no job lined up and landed at a tiny restaurant on the outskirts of Paris, which suddenly became trendy.

    Distractions. bradamant 2006

  • Okay, that is a major overstatement on my part, ah, petit a petit l'oiseau fache en nie.

    joegood Diary Entry joegood 2001

  • Tristram, the second a fable, _L'homme et le serpent, _ the third a tale, _L'homme et l'oiseau_, which is the basis of the celebrated

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various

  • "Le Roi lui-même, ou le plus renommé des chevaliers présents, ayant découpé le paon, se leva, et mettant la main sur l'oiseau, fit un voeu hardi; Ensuite il passa le plat, et chacun de ceux qui le reçurent fit un voeu semblable."

    Notes and Queries, Number 187, May 28, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852

  • In the rear angle on the right there was visible on tufted cushions of white satin a large, firm, and ruddy face, a brow freshly powdered a l'oiseau royal, a proud, hard, crafty eye, the smile of an educated man, two great epaulets with bullion fringe floating over a bourgeois coat, the

    Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

  • His white hair, powdered and dressed _à l'oiseau royale_; his Persian slippers and _robe de chambre, à grand ramage_, (we hope, reader, you have a French dictionary near you) spoke of principles as old as his toilet.

    The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821

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