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  • The Renaissance and the Reformation came; and, owing to the printing-press, gay scavoir found other means of spreading through the country.

    A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance Jean Jules Jusserand

  • ( "D'avoir envoye scavoir de ses nouvelles, mais quoy elle estoit fille et soeur de mes roys.")

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • I have no clothes; my stockings are of a fine thin thread, half of them full of holes; I have no flannel waistcoat, which everybody else wears; in short, I have been shivering in the warmest room sans scavoir pourquoi.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • According to the usual course of the post you must then have received that the 19th, the evening of your intended departure, and whether it prevented you or not, is still for me a scavoir.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • I have a great opinion of his good sense and scavoir faire.

    George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life Helen [Editor] Clergue

  • "_Et je fais scavoir a tous lecteurs de ce Livret que les chases que je dis avoir vues et sues sont enregistres icy, afin que vous pouviez les regarder selon vostre ban sens, s'il vous plaist. _"

    Chivalry James Branch Cabell 1918

  • I have a great opinion of his good sense and scavoir faire.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

  • I have no clothes; my stockings are of a fine thin thread, half of them full of holes; I have no flannel waistcoat, which everybody else wears; in short, I have been shivering in the warmest room sans scavoir pourquoi.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

  • According to the usual course of the post you must then have received that the 19th, the evening of your intended departure, and whether it prevented you or not, is still for me a scavoir.

    George Selwyn His Letters and His Life Ed 1899

  • Et en ce cas Elle fera scavoir audit Seigneur Comte d'Estrées, que son intention est qu'il laisse la liberté aux dites deux fregates, de naviguer par tout ou bon leur semblera.

    Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents 1898

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