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En plus faut pas qu'il pleuve sinon j'ai les cheveux qui vont partir en vrille!
pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2007
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To camouflage was already in use in the United States long before the country entered the war, and such aviation terms as ace, chandelle, vrille and glissade were seldom heard outside the air-force.
Chapter 11. American Slang. 2. War Slang Henry Louis 1921
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We signal them their bad shots -- which are better than the good ones of most of the batteries on the sector -- by doing stunts, a barrel turn, a loop, two or three turns of a _vrille_.
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France James Norman Hall 1919
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It was the _vrille_, the prettiest piece of aerial acrobatics that one could wish to see.
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France James Norman Hall 1919
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I don't know exactly what happened then, but the next moment I was falling in a _vrille_ (spinning nose dive) and heard the well-known crackling sound of machine-gun fire.
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France James Norman Hall 1919
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After that, when he had the chance of a lifetime, he fell into a vrille and scared the life out of the rest of us.
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France James Norman Hall 1919
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I was scared out of my life: went down full motor, then cut and fell into a vrille.
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France James Norman Hall 1919
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German had lost sight of me for a moment in the swiftness of his dive, but evidently he saw me just before I pulled out of the _vrille_.
High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France James Norman Hall 1919
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Blau J, Young MW (1999) Cycling vrille expression is required for a functional Helfrich-Förster C (1998) Robust circadian rhythmicity of Drosophila melanogaster requires the presence of lateral neurons: a brain-behavioral study of Rieger D, Fraunholz C, Popp J, Bichler D, Dittmann R, et al. (2007) The fruit fly
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Blau J, Young MW (1999) Cycling vrille expression is required for a functional Kadener S, Menet JS, Schoer R, Rosbash M (2008) Circadian transcription contributes to core period determination in Antoch MP, Song E-J, Chang A-M, Vitaterna MH, Zhao Y, et al. (1997) Functional identification of the mouse circadian clock gene by transgenic BAC rescue.
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