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  • Still no sense of momentum -- I'm rolling this stone up the hill the whole way, baby -- but we're six plages closer to the end than we were yesterday, and tomorrow we may even be a few pages closer.

    It's 10 am. Do you know where your author is? matociquala 2008

  • Ça grouille, touristes et « locaux » envahissent les parcs, les bords de mer, les plages, les bancs du centre ville.

    manly, ballade d'hier lilasvb 2009

  • Sur ce site, ils écrivent un message sur le sable des plages de la mer

    The Seediest Valentine's Day 2005

  • She seemed to dance over the floors of castles and over seas and over and over and over the salons of modistes and over the plages of the Riviera -- like a gay tremulous beam, reflected from water upon a ceiling.

    The Good Soldier Ford Madox Ford 1906

  • I have sent sore plages, when he hath me neglected,

    "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays Anonymous 1902

  • Son plan actuel consiste à chercher à nous bloquer de front, pour nous maintenir sur l'étroit terrain que nous avons conquis, et à nous y rendre la vie intenable en bombardant les camps et surtout les plages de débarquement.

    Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Ian Hamilton 1900

  • C'est la première idée qui se présente; étant donné l'intérêt de se rendre maître de la région Yenishahr-Erenkeui, qui prend nos plages de débarquement à revers.

    Gallipoli Diary, Volume I Ian Hamilton 1900

  • A single day's journey through the district which this 'Route Royale' is to traverse will lead the traveller through the most interesting part of the dunes, and introduce him to most of the favourite _plages_ on the coast of Flanders, and thus give him an insight into many characteristic Flemish scenes.

    Bruges and West Flanders Am��d��e Forestier 1887

  • A short mile's walk to the west of Knocke brings us to Duinbergen, one of the newest of the Flemish _plages_, founded in the year

    Bruges and West Flanders Am��d��e Forestier 1887

  • For, all thies misorders, be Goddes iuste plages, by his sufferance, brought iustelie vpon vs, for our sinnes, which be infinite in nomber, and horrible in deede, but namelie, for the greate abhominable sin of vn -

    The Scholemaster 1870

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