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Ils sont � si bon march� que pour dix florins de Hongrie on auroit un tr鑣-beau roussin (cheval de voyage).
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Dutch roussin, a Spanish jennet, a barded or trapped steed, then a light fleet horse, unto whom he gave a hundred carieres, made him go the high saults, bounding in the air, free the ditch with a skip, leap over a stile or pale, turn short in a ring both to the right and left hand.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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Dutch roussin, a Spanish jennet, a barded or trapped steed, then a light fleet horse, unto whom he gave a hundred carieres, made him go the high saults, bounding in the air, free the ditch with a skip, leap over a stile or pale, turn short in a ring both to the right and left hand.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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William of Montaubon, the cunning squire, had made his way across to the spot where the steeds were tethered, and had mounted his own great roussin.
Sir Nigel Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1906
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William of Montaubon, the cunning squire, had made his way across to the spot where the steeds were tethered, and had mounted his own great roussin.
Sir Nigel Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Hongrie on auroit un très-beau roussin (cheval de voyage).
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Elle me donna un roussin d'un excellent trot, un diamant pour mettre sur mes cheveux, à la mode d'Autriche, et un chapeau de perles orné d'un anneau et d'un rubis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Elle me donna un roussin d’un excellent trot, un diamant pour mettre sur mes cheveux, � la mode d’Autriche, et un chapeau de perles orn� d’un anneau et d’un rubis.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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For this we had an excommunication read against the man, when next we saw our holy father at Avignon; but as we had not his name, and knew nothing of him, save that he rode a dapple-gray roussin, I have feared sometimes that the blight may have settled upon the wrong man. "
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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For this we had an excommunication read against the man, when next we saw our holy father at Avignon; but as we had not his name, and knew nothing of him, save that he rode a dapple-gray roussin, I have feared sometimes that the blight may have settled upon the wrong man. "
The White Company Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1902
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