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Sarkozy ne nous dit pas de son programme ne nous offre pas un avenir très radieux.
oh. shit. 2007
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Pacific States. 110 The engineer was radieux with pride and joy.
The Land of Midian 2003
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A Londres on vit briller d'un eclat ephemere Le front tout radieux d'un ministre influent; Mais pour faire palir l'etoile d'Angleterre, Un SOLEIL tout nouveau parut au firmament, Et ce soleil du peuple franc Admire de l'Europe entiere Sur la terre est nomme BONAPARTE LE GRAND.
Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various
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A Londres on vit briller d'un eclat ephemere Le front tout radieux d'un ministre influent; Mais pour faire palir l'etoile d'Angleterre, Un SOLEIL tout nouveau parut au firmament, Et ce soleil du peuple franc Admire de l'Europe entiere Sur la terre est nomme BONAPARTE LE GRAND.
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Sont touchés par des rayons de soleil radieux et soudains
Bread and Roses 1912
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It is strange and sad that moral women find it so easy to sympathize with the Marguerite whose sins and life end in the beautiful "Anges purs, anges radieux" aria written by Gounod, and not with the Marguerite who ends in the hospital, the morgue and the Potter's Field.
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In after-years he gave expression to the exalted passion of this relationship -- _mon grand péché radieux_ -- in _Læti et
Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 2 Sexual Inversion Havelock Ellis 1899
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After getting into her wraps and overshoes she stands, hand on the door, at the back of her box, listening to the singers; at a certain moment she hurries to the window, makes her signal, scurries back, hears Calvé pour her soul out in _Anges purs_, _anges radieux_, yet manages to get down the stairs and into her carriage before the curtain has fallen.
The Ways of Men Eliot Gregory 1884
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It steads not the doomed man that he have interviews with the King; and be 'seen to return radieux,' emitting rays.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Mais à peine l'esquif eut-il touché les flots Qu'au cantique chanté par les saints matelots, L'ouragan replia ses ailes frémissantes, Que la mer aplanit ses vagues mugissantes, Et qu'un soleil plus pur, reparaissant aux cieux, Enveloppa l'esquif d'un cercle radieux! ...
The Paris Sketch Book William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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