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In France this movement took the name of la grève des ventres.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009
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La grève des ventres; propagande malthusienne et baisse de la natalité en France, XIXe-XXe siècles, Aubier, Paris, 1980.
Herman Daly Festschrift~ Socially Sustainable Economic Degrowth 2009
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And just like that, we filled our ventres in between chatting and laughing under the soleil du midi.
Words in a French Life Kristin Espinasse 2007
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Oculi his excavantur, venti gignuntur circum praecordia et acidi ructus, sicci fere ventres, vertigo, tinnitus aurium, somni pusilli, somnia terribilia et interrupta.
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Isti habent boues fortissimos habentes caudas plenas pilis sicut equi, et ventres pilosos et dorsa.
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Cretensus semper mendaces, malae bestiae, ventres.
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Isti habent boues fortissimos habentes caudas plenas pilis sicut equi, et ventres pilosos et dorsa.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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In the matter of "mendaces" and "ventres pagri" there would be a tremendous competition with the rest of Europe.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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Many a time have I heard him tell the story -- how, in the autumn of the good year 1690, thirty-four great ships of the Bostonians came up from below, and landed an army of ventres bleus of New England on the flats of Beauport.
The Golden Dog William Kirby 1861
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Gros-ventres, and those of the Yellow river, are very ferocious: they live by the chase, but bring few furs to the traders; and the latter maintain these posts principally to procure themselves provisions.
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