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  • Also la moelle de bœuf = beef marrow la moelle épinière = spinal marrow la moelle osseuse = bone marrow

    Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

  • Jean-Marc ordered the pot-au-feu avec son os à moelle and I asked for fricassée de poulpe.

    Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007

  • As soon as they turned, the Vendean riflemen fired amongst them and finished them: the gallant Concombre fell; the intrepid though diminutive Cornichon, his major, was cut down; Cardon was wounded a la moelle, and the wife of the fiery Navet was that day a widow.

    Burlesques 2006

  • Cette petite Nadia qui etait malade apres sa greffe de moelle ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2006

  • As soon as they turned, the Vendean riflemen fired amongst them and finished them: the gallant Concombre fell; the intrepid though diminutive Cornichon, his major, was cut down; Cardon was wounded a la moelle, and the wife of the fiery Navet was that day a widow.

    The History of the Next French Revolution 2006

  • French must use the entirely inaccurate words 'medulla' and 'moelle'; all, however, concurring in their recognition of a vital power of some essential kind in this white cord of cells: "Medulla, sive illa vitalis anima est, ante se tendit, longitudinem impellens."

    Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

  • As soon as they turned, the Vendean riflemen fired amongst them and finished them: the gallant Concombre fell; the intrepid though diminutive Cornichon, his major, was cut down; Cardon was wounded a la moelle, and the wife of the fiery Navet was that day a widow.

    Burlesques William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

  • Bone marrow, os à moelle, was perfectly garnished with slivers of shallot and chopped parsley.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Bone marrow, os à moelle, was perfectly garnished with slivers of shallot and chopped parsley.

    Evening Standard - Home 2011

  • Celui qui est capable de marcher derrière une musique militaire n'a pas besoin de cerveau: une moelle épinière lui suffit.

    unknown title 2009

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