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It may be safely taken as an axiom in travelling that you seldom suffer from cold more than in what are supposed to be hot climates, and the wary _voyageuse_ will never separate herself hopelessly from her winter wraps, even when steering to tropical lands.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Various
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À onze heures du soir il y avait une de ces catastrophes qui font frémir l'Europe voyageuse.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 28, 1891 Various
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TINAYRE, Notes d'une voyageuse en Orient in Revue des deux Mondes
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Oh, my Dear, if I had but a pen that would mark freely - never to say spell - and if I might be dispensed from news of the house, I would write you such a/Lettre d'une voyageuse/as you have not read
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American; but called, I do not see why, 'Veronique _voyageuse_,' by the French, and Fremder Ehrenpreis in
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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While Cecil went away to put on her travelling dress, as sometimes happens, the true bearing of the speech flashed on her; and when her step-daughter returned, arrayed _en voyageuse_, Mrs. Rolleston considerately remarked, -- "How dull I shall be without you!
Bluebell A Novel Mrs. George Croft Huddleston
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Then good Bertie came down to see us, and Vicky appeared as voyageuse, and was all impatience to go.”
Queen Victoria Her Girlhood And Womanhood Greenwood, Grace 1883
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Then good Bertie came down to see us, and Vicky appeared as _voyageuse_, and was all impatience to go. "
Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood Grace Greenwood 1863
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