How To Use Parisian In A Sentence
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As most Parisians escape the city in August there will just be me and Darren and a couple of million other tourists in town that weekend.
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Thomas writes colorfully of blackguards and mistresses, salty sea dogs and young midshipmen, bloody quarterdecks and Parisian salons.
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The general thrust of these stories was that of some handsome, dashing and very young aviator who had a Parisian girlfriend, and between the two there is a torrid love interest.
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The heart of their study is a large sample of loan contracts drawn by Parisian notaries.
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The ballet-loving Parisians were given a 20-minute suite of dances at the start of Act Three, which is a harem scene.
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And the distillery, soon to be delisted for other reasons, produced strong results before falling into the maw of the Parisians.
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I watched with dry, weary eyes as the pale light of dawn overwhelmed the amber glow of the Parisian night sky.
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Both were excellent fund-raisers among the wealthy, and they kept up feminine appearances by favouring Parisian fashions.
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Some hostellers and I are sitting on the grass under the Eiffel Tower sharing stories about the Parisians we've come across.
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Styled on the popular Parisian boulevard cafes, this delightful family restaurant overlooks the exotic lagoon-style pool.
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Jason gives a detailed account of the creation of the boiserie for an early eighteenth-century Parisian mansion and its recent restoration and installation in the Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
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I watched with dry, weary eyes as the pale light of dawn overwhelmed the amber glow of the Parisian night sky.
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In his habitual laconical way he counselled me to reserve all my savings for our journey, and to settle with my creditors when my Parisian successes had provided the necessary means.
My Life — Volume 1
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The most impressive breakthrough in this period was nevertheless made by Le Petit Journal, a Parisian daily of tabloid size, launched in 1863, and selling for one sou.
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Parisian taxi drivers are threatening to mount a blockade to turn the screw on the government.
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Edouard Collin is a tall wisp of a French teenager, all well-tanned Parisian sinew with a sharp-angled, warmly expressive face born to be placed in front of a camera.
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A conscientious attempt has been made to trace the life and career of Yvette Guilbert from her childhood in the Parisian gutter (or not far removed from it), through her glittering supremacy as a fin de siècle diseuse, on into the years of waning prestige and cultural pretension, and so to her last days, harassed and impecunious, in the bleak Provence of 1944.
This Was Not Yvette
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Set against the wartime Parisian intellectual society, The Mandarins revealed Simone de Beauvoir's relations with the existentialist philosopher Jean Paul Sartre.
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Wax leads James on a white- Knuckle shotting spree through the Parisian underworld that has James praying for his desk job.
Filmstalker: From Paris With Love, another International trailer
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All sorts of music will be well represented at the festival, including concerts of Irish folk music, jazz, Parisian chansons and brass bands.
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I can't imagine the French lowering themselves to pay more attention to him than the other street performers on Parisian streets.
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Parisian, that is to say, to rebound forever, like a shuttlecock between two battledores, from the group of the loungers to the group of the roysterers.
Les Miserables
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Both were excellent fund-raisers among the wealthy, and they kept up feminine appearances by favouring Parisian fashions.
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He comes to a house in the wilds of Corsica; he is choke-full of Parisian gossip, he has a lot to say of course, but he never gets
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, May 23, 1891
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It was somewhere we had visited on art college trips where, apart from the odd art gallery, the only Parisian experience we had was stumbling back through the red light district to our ropey hotel.
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Unlike the Tuilleries, the Luxembourg is where Parisians go to perambulate.
What to Do in Paris / Que faire a Paris? - French Word-A-Day
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From 1898 until he died in 1927, he anatomized Old Paris right down to the doorknobs -- the book is the exact size of a Parisian cobblestone -- but as arranged, neighborhood by neighborhood, the photos comprise one of the great works of art of the last two centuries.
All I Want For Christmas...
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Parisian pavior was the first inventor of this composition; but I am satisfied the corn-cracker had not stolen it from the stone-cracker.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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With a plausible excuse, and seeming indifference, he gracefully opened conversation with the mantuamaker as only a Parisian can.
Condensed Novels
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This move becomes evident in certain physical questions, e.g., in the study of condensation and rarefaction, where Albert openly disagrees with his Parisian master by arguing that condensation and rarefaction are possible only through the local motion of the parts of a body, and without needing to assume some quantity that would have a distinct reality on its own.
Albert of Saxony
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The symbolic language of Saint Catherine's day, as celebrated by the Parisian midinettes (young dressmakers and milliners), had its origins in the festive calendar of rural France.
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The young girls in them shine through all the make up and Parisian dressing when they giggle at one another's little bloopers and talk nostalgically about their families.
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It could be that the clientele has always and ever been the European tourists who, on any given day, celebrate the café's obvious debt to the Parisian bistros, or the local business people and itinerant voluptuaries such as myself who come here all the time.
Terence Clarke: Restaurant Review: Cafe de La Presse, San Francisco
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Even today, Gauguin's canvases strike viewers with their raw power, and not surprisingly they shocked Parisian audiences of his own time.
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The short Feydeau farcettes were originally written as curtain-raisers for Parisian audiences who expected more for their money than one straight play.
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In a sartorial choice that has baffled and dismayed people ever since, upper-class Parisians adopted the mercenaries 'knotted scarf, which they called a "cravat" - a mispronunciation of the word "Croat" probably caused by a restricted larynx.
Pipes Output
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The river was near at hand, still wearing its Parisian aspect, filled with chains, bathing establishments, great barges, and multitudes of little, skiffs, with a layer of coaldust on their pretentious, freshly-painted names, tied to the pier and rocking to the slightest motion of the water.
The French Immortals Series — Complete
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Flying Lotus has been subtly vying for the role of leader of the West Coast future-hop revolution, amassing an army of like-minded experimental producers for his digital label hilariously badass video for "Parisian Goldfish," which features the utilitarian implementation of cartoon genitals.
Flavorpill Los Angeles Events
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After Lacroix, Man Ray spent about six years with the famed Parisian demi-mondaine Kiki de Montparnasse, to whom he devoted an entire chapter in his autobiography.
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Then, the snacks will start appearing, in groups of two or three, each one on its own specially designed plate: pristine disks that look like elaborately decorated candies from a Parisian confiserie but taste of salty sesame; crisp, translucent rectangles of raspberry punched up with wasabi’s heat; a thin cracker that tastes purely and intensely of the juiciest tomato you’ve ever eaten.
The Sorcerer’s Apprentices
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To this impressionable man, Parisian badinage -- not to call it anything stronger -- was positively antipathetical.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
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Balmain Parisian designer Christophe Decarnin turned John D. Rockefeller pinstripes into body-hugging power suits for Balmain's fall collection.
Menswear Suits the Ladies, Too
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The castrates were, however, deadly serious in their pursuit of a paradise on earth, and Meek says he came across a history of them in a Parisian bookshop.
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For example, if you like the idea of being playfully seduced by 1890s Parisian floozies, you may want to catch A Night at the Moulin Rouge.
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The selection of textiles range from a fragment of printed cotton purchased at a flea market to Parisian couture gowns, African wall hangings and Turkish robes.
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At Saturday's prologue, Parisians took their time to line the route.
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Desperation abounds, especially among the young and those beyond the gilded circle of the Parisian elites.
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Although the Parisian architect Jean-Paul Viguier designed the striking, cantilevered, bladelike, at once slick and luxurious structure, its unusual footprint and modernist look respond marvelously to its site and neighborhood, and Viguier's heroic efforts to "bring the sun into the project" show a sensitivity to both the city's climate and its architectural heritage, which virtually fetishizes openness and natural light.
The Not-So-Second City
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Boule is a smart synthesis of Parisian-inspired sweets, including a pâtisserie (pastries), glacerie (ice cream and sorbet), chocolaterie (truffles) and confiserie (assorted confections).
The Lobby from SPG
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The ad was directed by Romain Gavras, who previously helmed Justice's "Stress" video from their debut album †, depicting violence in the Parisian banlieue.
WATCH: Justice's New Single Soundtracks Adidas Ad With Katy Perry
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The Parisian theme continues into the casino area, where 90 table games are situated beneath attractive verdigris grillwork.
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For anyone with a penchant for the traditional accordion based Parisian music known as musette and the unique song style of the French music hall,
CathNews
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The elegant expressions of Parisian Cubism are the superior works of art if you value subtle composition and exquisite harmonies of tone.
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Proposals were initially made to revise the Constitution of 1793 but, in the wake of abortive uprisings by the Parisian sans-culottes in the spring of 1795, a fresh document was devised instead.
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I argue along with T. J. Clark that Parisian modernism is most distinctive in terms of the disruptive force.
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I am rejoiced to learn that the two factions of Texas Baptists, after having for months past denounced each other in language that smelled of sulphur and would have disgraced opposing parties of Parisian gamins -- after resorting to all the petty meanness of peanut politics to control the flesh-pots -- have kissed and hugged, slobbered and boohooed each on the other's brisket.
The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10
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Sunshine restored, even in the flooded quarters, the true Parisian gaiety that had for a time been overclouded with a terrible sense of powerlessness and insecurity.
The Paris Flood of 1910 | Edwardian Promenade
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The Parisians utilize centimeters instead of inches and there are no half sizes.
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Parisian lined the streets to admire the young couple.
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Anglomania was pretty rife in aristocratic Paris, and the author of my main source (Cornelia Otis Skinner) was an expert on 1890s/1900s Parisian society.
The Tea Gown | Edwardian Promenade
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His connection with Mr. Ducasse began in 1997, when he worked as a stagiaire , or unpaid apprentice, in the Monegasque chef's first Parisian restaurant.
A Perfect Dinner Pairing
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The statue of Etienne Marcel at the City Hall in Paris recalls one of the many instances of the resistance of the city to corrupt administration and it was under one of the most autocratic and greatest of monarchs, Louis XIV, that the Parisian earned the distinctive epithet of 'frondeur' to describe his quickness to resent any encroachment on the part of authority upon his civil rights and liberties.
A Royalist Fiasco
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From one moment to the next, "Cars 2" comes up with plenty of visual zingers: a Parisian marché aux pieces as in spare parts; a plunge into the giant clockworks of London's Big Bentley; a Japanese toilet designed to pamper any chassis; exotic cars galore, including such exotic lemons as the Pacer, the Gremlin and what the movie calls the Hugo.
Oy Story: 'Cars 2' Is a Dollar-Driven Edsel
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The frilled, flounced and furbelowed 1850s grew more ornate with each passing day and even the littlest humans were as loaded with ribbons, bows, embroidery and lace as any Parisian belle.
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As Parisian chair makers began adopting Tillard's designs, the frames of both caned and Louis XV bergère chairs were at times gilded or painted.
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The rollerblading officers, who patrol the streets of Paris in blue uniforms, wearing knee and elbow pads and crash helmets, provoke mixed reactions among Parisians.
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If he was the quintessential Parisian (in his autobiography, he describes himself as “a Parisian from the heart of Paris”), she was the fiercely ambitious arriviste.
The King Is Dead
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I felt foolish that I had sweated away my junior year in Vishakhapatnam while my classmates got drunk in London pubs or chatted up Parisian women in the Louvre.
Domesticity Never Looked So Exciting
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Polish stunner, Anja Rubik opened the show in an oversized leather jacket and pencil skirt ensemble that reminded me of Former French Vogue's EIC, Carine Roitfeld's dark, chic, and very Parisian aesthetic.
Marjon Rebecca Carlos: Pret-a-Parler: Kanye's Debut Conversation With Style
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The Parisian suburbs are a mosaic of highly diverse socioprofessional and urban realities.
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This collection had a strong Parisian influence, filled with tweeds, boucles and berets.
Resort 2010
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This is the true Parisian manner — this is the prettiest little foot in the room, and the prettiest little chaussure too.
The History of Pendennis
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“You are not offended, Frank, are you, with me, for making you meet two caryatides of the Parisian temple of pleasure?”
Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions
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The racist suspicions of the French toward Mediterraneans underlay the eventual ironic triumph of Italian accordion music as the defining Parisian sound of hal musette.
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We understood the despair of Parisian gourmets and cooks, and we confirmed the verdict, provisionally announced at breakfast, that the sterlet is the king of all fish.
Russian Rambles
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It was also marked "louvre" - in lower case - and bore several stamps from the Parisian museum.
Art Knowledge News
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Here the chant alternates between monody and three-part polyphony, following the method of twelfth-century Parisian discantus as it has come down to us in the only extant work of Master Albert of Paris precentor of the Cathedral of Saint-Étienne, preserved in the Codex Calixtinus: the Congaudeant catholici.
Archive 2009-03-01
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The narrator in the urban nineteenth-century Russian novel is likewise informed by a coupling of the Russian chronicle tradition with the Parisian physiological sketch, filtering via the feuilleton into the serialized novel.
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The popular imagination seasoned the sombre Parisian sink with some indescribably hideous intermixture of the infinite.
Les Miserables
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This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending, -- Dieu de Dieu!
Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius
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And Parisians are the distillation of everything French.
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The Parisian spectators have long memories and they do not like a bad loser.
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Tallien -- Notre Dame de Thermidor she was styled -- dazzled Parisian society by her classic features and the uncinctured grace of her attire.
The Life of Napoleon I (Volume 1 of 2)
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I've discovered and love Reblochon, Roquefort and Cantal (these are in no particular order) in my Parisian market trawls.
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Fifteen years have passed away, and these old people, no doubt, have joined their ancestors; but I can see them still sitting in that _salle à manger_; the _buffets en vieux chêne_; the opulent candelabra _en style d'empire_; the waiter lighting the gas in the pale Parisian evening.
Confessions of a Young Man
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This would be an ideal opportunity for local producers to publicise their products to the Parisian and French Markets.
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Other Levantines followed his example; but, to fix the fickle Parisian, required a coffeeroom handsomely decorated.
Paris as It Was and as It Is
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The Parisian detachments marching to Lyons left a trail of pillaged and closed churches, and smouldering bonfires of ornaments, vestments, and holy pictures all along their route.
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Stepping ashore, you see a long line of carriages drawn up in several rows, and of every conceivable variety -- from the Turkish araba to the most coquettish-looking Parisian coupé -- gilded and adorned in a style to make a French lorette stare with amazement at a lavishness of expenditure exceeding her own.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873
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When Mrs. Radcliffe, at the date definitely given of 1584, talks about "the Parisian opera," represents a French girl of the sixteenth century as being "instructed in the English poets," and talks about driving in a "landau," the individual blunders are, perhaps, not more violent than those of the chronology by which Scott's Ulrica is apparently a girl at the time of the Conquest and a woman, not too old to be the object of rivalry between Front de Boeuf and his father, not long before the reign of Richard I.
The English Novel
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It was nicknamed toujours prêt - always ready - by Parisian gossipmongers.
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So certain Parisian bourgeoisie are better off, with new windows and 50 centimes extra in their wallets.
Bastiat Updated
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Love this post about space constraints in Parisian apartments.
Houseproud
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And the ever-present clown, but this clown resembles a Parisian clochard/street person whose attitude does not evoke sympathy or empathy — just a sense of unease; not unlike the unease that is created by four men with two invisible trampolines separated by an enormous wall that they keep landing on top of, only to be airborne again in one direction or the other.
Buzzine » Cirque Berzerk!
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For some years, moreover, the strange phenomenon has presented itself of the provincial towns being the prey of Parisian manufacturers, who reconstruct them and demolish their picturesque antiquity, in order to garnish their boulevards and fine mansions, while Paris, on the contrary, is directed and governed by provincials, who provincialize it just as the Parisian companies parisianize the provinces.
His Excellency the Minister
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The altercation waxed hot in words, which moved the gaping hoidens of the sottish Parisians to run from all parts thereabouts.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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Indeed, Paris is teeming with gay-friendly hotels, so it might be wise to limit your search to the Marais, arguably the most interesting Parisian quartier and certainly the gayest.
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With designersigned T-shirts and Parisian jeans; forty-dollar sunglasses; the smell of benzocaine, camphor, hot burning flesh.
The Season of the Machete
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A few words, and the Creole nature could influence the lives of the two beings about to walk together through the brambled paths and the dusty high-roads of Parisian society, for Natalie believed in her mother blindly.
A Marriage Contract
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Moved by what he called "idealized illustrations of Hawaii from the '50s, postcards and Hawaiian shirts," Parisian Joseph Altuzarra sent digital tropical prints down his spring runway against a backdrop of live palm-frond foliage, while Suno, a house that usually sets its compass to Africa where many of its batik fabrics are made, was also taken with alohawear.
Endless Summer
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In his Parisian workshop, the elegant Bartholdi and truly minuscule workers pose next to a gigantic foot or an ear, of which the actual-size mold is shown with the photos.
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When we lived in a tiny Parisian deux pieces after my divorce I had a party for my daughter at a place where there was a massive play area (piscine a balles etc) and the staff took care of the kids while you had a coffee.
Party planner
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This Parisian early prototype, however, lacked the spicy seasonings that ennoble the classic cocktail we know today.
The Bloody Mary Makeover
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_ We see him much the same as he was when he delighted the Parisians in 1830, -- "_Avec sa grand casaque à gros boutons, son large pantalon flottant, ses souliers blancs comme le rests, son visage enfariné, sa tête couverte d'un serre-tête noir ... le véritable Pierrot avec sa bonhomie naïve ... ses joies d'enfant, et ses chagrins d'un effet si comique_" -- and also so pathetic.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, April 11, 1891
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At the beginning of the year 1881, the committee on finances of the common council of Paris received a petition from the central committee of the syndical chambers asking for the establishment of an official exchange for merchandise and commercial transactions for the especial use of Parisian commerce.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 664, September 22,1888
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It takes a good deal of time to explain why a harassed lawyer, his domineering mother-in-law, narcoleptic uncle, his ex-cook and a fellow legal letch should all arrive at a Parisian lovenest on the same night.
Once Bitten – review
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They are covering an insurrection of Parisian proletarians.
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We Parisians generally make a mistake as to the ground which we think that we have gained, since Paris has not increased much over one-third since the time of Louis XI.
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Over the past five years, the Parisian club has produced a special calendar for charity featuring unclad players in a variety of poses.
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It also referred to a high-ranking member of the Priory—clearly Plantard—meeting the Grand Master of P2, Licio Gelli dating the encounter two days after Plantard’s election as Nautonnier and setting it in the rather ordinary Parisian brasserie La Tipia near the Gare du Nord railway station, where he often held meetings.
The Sion Revelation
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One long-held dream had been to open a London restaurant with the style of the classical Parisian brasseries.
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Kuerten sends the Parisian crowd into rhapsody by winning the longest rally of the match with a thrilling forehand pass.
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Parisian _confiseur_, with the result that all Bucarest are his customers, and his business is an extremely lucrative one.
The Gourmet's Guide to Europe
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The Lido, the Moulin Rouge, the Crazy Horse - all long established Parisian traditions titillating tourists with naked or semi - naked acts.
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Jean-Dominique Bauby, a well-known Parisian journalist, has a stroke and loses consciousness; on awaking he finds himself paralysed and unable to speak.
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They began calling the for-hire motorized passenger vehicles taxis once the national French Academy determined that taximètre would replace the German taxameter to become official French.xvi Rushed Parisians are, after all, fond of shortening multisyllabic words.xvii
The English Is Coming!
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a French translation, a Parisian critic -- I am almost certain it was M. Gustave Kahn in the "Gil Blas" -- giving me a short notice, summed up his rapid impression of the writer's quality in the words _un puissant reveur_.
A Personal Record
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Parisian influences such as Art Nouveau inspired some printmakers to create more florid, neo-Romantic patterns, like that for the opera star Lillian Russell, whose photographed face peers through a window-box like a flower bud surrounded by intertwining vines and leaves.
PopMatters
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For example, the dragon serving as a handle to a lapis lazuli cup was borrowed from a sardonyx cup in the Louvre, embellished in about 1630 by a mount attributed to a Parisian goldsmith.
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Parisian workman could not conceal a certain brigandish air that was second nature to them.
Monte-Cristo's Daughter
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The Crazy Horse Theatre at the MGM Grand is an exact replica of its Parisian counterpart - a small, intimate venue.
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‘Perhaps I will have that ciggy,’ she says, trying to come on all Parisian, as her willowy character learns that Charlie, her husband of three months, is dead and she is the prime suspect.
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Michel Richard began his career as a protege of the great Gaston Lenotre, a Parisian patissier who was one of the founding fathers of nouvelle cuisine.
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My favorite shopping expeditions were invariably in the spring, when Parisians took to the Marché Boulevard Raspail, a few blocks from our apartment, with the singular mission of securing the ingredients for navarin d'agneau, the French lamb stew that heralds spring.
Stew's Spring Awakening
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Gilboa, and a Parisian convulsionary, who scribbles ecclesiastical notices in his garret, in 1758, is wonderfully striking.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Every French commercial traveller, buss-tooter, and Parisian jarvy is one.
Notes and Queries, No. 209, October 29 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
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Parisian street scenes, impressionistic landscapes, Rembrandt and Andy Warhol are popular on the islands these days.
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So the Widow Twankey was sought out, and Betty stood and looked appealingly humble while Etta Cavendish suffered her ribs to be prodded in a good cause, and the Widow agreed to "wash for" Betty at rates that would have brought blushes to the cheeks of a Parisian _blanchisseuse de fin_.
The Long Trick
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First, this nuanced, detailed and ever colorful account of Parisian life requires discussion.
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We would be surprised if a writer covered Parisian restaurants without ever going to Paris, or wrote about naan bread without visiting India.
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He is a nobleman of ancient lineage, and at the same time a Parisian communard.
A Raw Youth
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Shoyer, the owner of Paula's Parisian Pastries Cooking School in the Washington D.C., area, spends more than 300 pages modernizing Jewish classics such as babka, honey cake and hamentaschen and creating kosher versions of today's trendiest desserts - favorites like red velvet cupcakes.
SFGate: Top News Stories
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It is still possible to find real jewels in the Parisian countryside, private family chateaux which, while not strictly speaking hotels, are happy to accommodate guests.
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I know that most Parisians speak fluent English, but my French teachers would have been so very disappointed.
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She gave her grudging approval, though the world must have seemed more dangerous than ever in the midst of a cholera epidemic that claimed sixteen thousand Parisians between March and May 1849.
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None but a Parisian, and a Parisian of the upper spheres, could thus array himself without appearing ridiculous; none other could give the harmony of self-conceit to all these fopperies, which were carried off, however, with a dashing air, — the air of a young man who has fine pistols, a sure aim, and Annette.
Eug�nie Grandet
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Is it mere coincidence that the most representative Parisian dance is called the cancan?
Skinny Legs and All
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Brioche a tete is a traditional Parisian brioche in which two dough rounds are stacked in the same mold.
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French restaurants within the city limits can prop umbrellas over their tables, uncork a few bottles of wine, chalk the word "boeuf" under their list of specials and pretend, once again, to share the atmosphere of a Parisian cafe.
Dallas Observer | Complete Issue
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In the corner, a dressmaker's mannequin loomed, its hourglass figure a little more curvy than those belonging to the Parisian woman passing behind me, on the trottoir (I could see their reflections in the shop's window, where my nose now flattened up against the glass).
Machine à coudre - French Word-A-Day
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The rustics, on their side, resisted these privileged lackeys and called them "coxcombs" and "Parisians," sometimes accompanying these remarks with the most expressive blows.
Gerfaut — Complete
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Even before Parisian painters took it up, Provencal landscape artists had practiced plein-air painting.
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I have seen them in Parisian hotel rooms and have never been quite sure what they are for?
Disconnected
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Yes, the Parisians speak French and the Berliners German, but the rising generation - often to an embarrassing degree - are using what I've called Globish as a way of hooking into global culture; music, films, and literature.
Culture | guardian.co.uk
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It shows three soldiers, unshaven and dog-tired from battle, trudging through Paris past a Parisian woman bundled in rags.
Soldiers Armed With Pencils and Paint
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I picked up all sorts of tips from him - decadent Parisian Hot Chocolate doesn't contain cream, only use unsweetened cocoa powder in recipes, Scharffen Burger cocoa nibs are currently unavailable so try Dagoba instead.
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Parisian socialites traditionally were far more interested in being seen than watching the action taking place on the stage.
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He has a Parisian optician produce hyperboloidal lenses for a demonstration, but the lenses are a failure.
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Their lively, eclectic tastes animated all London theatres, and the legit stage began to appropriate gothic gruesomeness and the exoticism of distant lands from bestsellers; fabulous landscapes transformed, and violence stunted, from harlequinade extravaganzas; extreme emotion, terror and horror, from post-revolutionary Parisian showbiz.
Projections of puppet theatre
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It could be that the clientele has always and ever been the European tourists who, on any given day, celebrate the café's obvious debt to the Parisian bistros, or the local business people and itinerant voluptuaries such as myself who come here all the time.
Terence Clarke: Restaurant Review: Cafe de La Presse, San Francisco
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In subsequent years, the author spent countless hours in Parisian libraries eagerly pursuing his interests in geography, geology, engineering and astronomy.
Did you know? An early Jules Verne story was set in Mexico.
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It was thus, as the sun broke over a dewy Parisian morn, that I decided to put in a call to the Hotel Casterix, a mere nine miles away back in Paris proper.
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When we arrived in Paris, we searched in vain for evidence of its anti-American posturing, its supposed rudeness to all who fail to be Parisian and its intolerance of any language other than its own.
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And people say that those are young Parisian coxcombs in disguise.
The Metamorphosis, in The Penal Colony,and Other Stories
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The university students swagger down here as though it were a catwalk, parading their Parisian clothes.
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Now the whole country is likely to get a glimpse of the table, which is not a font, but fine Parisian relic from the 1850s, bearing 20 hand-painted miniatures from the court of Louis XVI.
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And I get to play his once live-in lover and assistant, who's a very ballsy, bawdy Parisian.
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I do not know whether my back-woods friend, or the Parisian pavior, was the first inventor of this composition, but I am satisfied the corn-cracker had not stolen it from the stone-cracker.
Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time
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No, he prefers his rather hazy studio playhouse to the glitz of Parisian nightlife.
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Who is to say that, merely because a tourist is visiting Las Vegas, he or she does not also vacation in the Lake District, or live the life of a Parisian boulevardier?
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It's all acres of plate glass, walnut fittings and the kind of hushed retail reverence usually reserved for unwearable frocks designed by gay men in Parisian ateliers.
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Prussian statesman, who had so successfully "jockeyed" the Man of Destiny, was undoubtedly a well hated and dreaded individual among the Parisians, at least among all those who thought of the future of Europe.
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71
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A woman, her face displaying an enigmatic or even arrogantly impenetrable beauty, appears out of the gray Parisian night.
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The photographers would not have chased Diana down that Parisian tunnel if the public had not been avid for pictures of the princess.
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They crossed to the farther side of the river, where the influence of the Gothic monument threw a distinction even over the Parisian smartnesses -- the municipal rule and measure, the importunate symmetries, the "handsomeness" of everything, the extravagance of gaslight, the perpetual click on the neat bridges.
The Tragic Muse
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I can speak all kinds of French: regular, patois, joual, franglais … even Parisian French.
Gelett Burgess and the blurb
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Sevikian is the only one of these Parisian fashion entrepreneurs who is not on twitter, but she believes in synergy and is very proud to see women as entrepreneurs fighting to develop what they have deep inside.
Beth Arnold: Letter From Paris: Celebs Are Out, The Fringe Is In
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Parisian gaiety, which some French historian of the siege calls douce philosophie, lingering on him still, he said, audibly, turning round to any stranger who heard: "Happiest of mortals that we are!
The Parisians — Complete
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Fabre d'Églantine became active in Parisian politics in 1789.
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He had seen this holiday job as a route into one of the hierarchical kitchens of a big Parisian hotel, and he duly landed a job as a commis, the lowest rung, but he was never born to be a porter and peeler.
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Notable Parisian couturiers became patrons and she soon possessed a magnificent wardrobe comprised of gifts from her new clients.
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In soft pastels, the short and sexy dresses showing asymmetrical hemlines are unfinished with lace and ribbon, exuding the feel of a Parisian boudoir.
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There are endless careful details — a 45-foot zinc bar, a Parisian metro clock — a lovely rooftop garden designed by Seattle Urban Farm, and a menu from chef Shannon Galusha that fits a big niche of dinnertime cravings, from a French rotisserie (with chickens specially raised for Bastille by an Eastside farm) to a takeout window for felafel.
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Parisians on the street often looked worried, hurried and unfriendly.
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The naif became the world's most famous exponent of bohemian life and, of course, a star in Parisian gay society.
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Anne endeavoured to reduce the Parliament to obediance by arresting and imprisoning two members; but the Parisians rose in tumult, and she was forced to yield the captives, but resolved on revenge.
A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates
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Parisian archiepiscopacy, proffered him by Buonaparte, and died in London, in December 1804, in the arms of Monsieur, afterwards
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
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Within only six weeks, the French army had collapsed and shell-shocked Parisians were forced to watch as German soldiers paraded through their streets, the sound of their jackboots signalling the defeat of a great power.
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When not in class, he worked part time in the pastry department at the famous Parisian gourmet store Fauchon and spent his four week summer break at a local charcuterie.
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She was pressing close to him now, and he caught the scent of her breath; a fragrance no Parisian perfumery could ever hope to capture.
SACRAMENT
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Castanet-like handclaps trigger long, guttural sax lines; electronics fly across the speakers and give way to free-blasting; and odd, pogo-dancing themes over bumpy drumming sound like punk interpretations of Parisian cafe music.
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In some respects this enthusiasm for the Middle Ages and for Gothic architecture in particular was a matter of fashion: thus Parisian letters of 1834 record as superlatives current in the salons — alongside such curiosities as pyramidale, babylonien, and apocalyptique — the epithets gothique, ogival, and flamboyant.
CONCEPT OF GOTHIC
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In one scene, a curé sitting in a Parisian bus beside a drunken fireman is suddenly transformed into a naked woman whose honour is protected only by a Bible.
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In short, they very unceremoniously treat the Parisians who believe in Gargantua as ignorant simpletons and superstitious idiots, with whom are intermixed a few hypocrites, who pretend to believe in Gargantua, in order to obtain some convenient priorship in the abbey of Thélême.
A Philosophical Dictionary
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Let them remind them of that Great Name which the Parisian "ouvrier" so often forgets -- of Him whose everlasting Fatherhood is the sole ground of all human brotherhood, whose wise and loving will is the sole source of all perfect order and government.
Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
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Quodlibet was disputed after the famous propositio magistralis of 1285, i.e. the proposition conceded by the Parisian Masters of Theology on the occasion of Giles of Rome's rehabilitation: “si ratio recta, et voluntas recta”
Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol)
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These languages were further divided into village patois (without counting Parisian argot, street slang).
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They know him so well that at times they find it hard to distinguish where they end and Kenny begins, and will often simply lie around with Kenny in their shared Parisian loft apartment making enigmatic remarks and watching the sunlight dapple their skin as they bask in the intoxicating flush of intimacy.
Has Kenny Dalglish taken Liverpool as far as he can?| Barney Ronay
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The selection of textiles range from a fragment of printed cotton purchased at a flea market to Parisian couture gowns, African wall hangings and Turkish robes.
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He has one of those over the top Parisian accents you hear in the movies.
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This is less a kids' romp than a hymn to early cinema – sugar-coated with a junior steampunk adventure revolving around an Parisian orphan and his mystery automaton.
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Indeed, the image that often comes foremost to mind when considering absinthe is a streetful of dissipated Parisian intellectuals, some of whom sunk into poverty and madness by dancing a bit too closely with the Green Fairy.
Boing Boing
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This explains that famous exclamation of a Parisian gamin, a profound epiphonema, which the vulgar herd laughs at without comprehending, — Dieu de
Les Miserables
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More than 100 years after Londoners got the Tube and Parisians a Metro, Dubliners are set to get their own underground public transport system.
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And as they stood there staring at each other, stymied, in the sunshine filtering down between the tall Parisian buildings, they heard the lively clopping of horseshoes and the creaking of large wooden wheels.
Bubble in the Bathtub
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The young barber-surgeons ( "whiting" as the Parisians call them), sprinkled from head to foot with hair powder, carry the curling-iron in one hand, the wig in the other, on their way to the houses of their customers.
The Eve of the French Revolution
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A Parisian _figurant_, advanced to the position of
A Book of the Play Studies and Illustrations of Histrionic Story, Life, and Character
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He first engaged in Parisian revolutionary politics in 1789 as a typesetter in the printing shop of the Moniteur Universel, an important daily newspaper that reported events and recorded debates in the various national assemblies.
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He's a Parisian born and bred.
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There's also pining over garments that suit a more mature outlook, a visit to Juliette Binoche's "facialist", and snaps of Parisian senior citizen hipsters.
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