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She was petite, blonde, with fine features and a smooth lilting voice that swayed with southern French tones
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I was never allowed to watch when he was varnishing though or doing the last coat of French polishing – I remember that quite clearly
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What would I have done in this or that situation? How would I react if I found myself facing similar choices? Would I have been as bold as Menachem and entered into a passionate affair with an English woman, a civil servant, just as he had done? Would I have dared to chase a French politician through the streets of Paris to ask that one final question, a question that resulted in Aban spending three days in a French gaol?
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“I wish I could French braid it, but I don’t know how
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I chose the bed nearest the French windows and lay down bathed in the cool of the sheets
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The French honey that is gathered from the blooms of gooseberry and sycamore trees is an exquisite sea green
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Tom vaguely remembered that the French called daisies by a woman’s name, and he ran his finger along the plant’s stem while he tried to recall what that name might be
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Half the people spoke Minoan, a third spoke Greek, half could speak English, a third could speak French or German, quite a few could speak Russian and quite a few could speak Turkish
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Tom vaguely remembered that the French called
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lurched out of the living room through the French doors and
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“Excuse my French, Heather, but I call bullshit
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‘Mine’s rare, please … and I’ll have the French fries please
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calculator, Heather with her seemingly endless supply of French flash cards, and
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was shaking with fury as he confronted his French
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'You French are all alike!' The man was now red with rage
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of their stupid French servants – the Lord only knew what
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preference for French Cardinals - has begun to even things
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Boy, had that course been intensive! I remember the opening lecture and the tutor standing at the front telling us that we would not have time to party, get involved in love affairs or anything else during our year’s intensive course – and she was not joking … the course was a bi-lingual secretarial course with French
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the idea was that we would learn shorthand (in both English and French), typing (ditto), business law, office practice and, in our spare time so to speak, translate the French equivalent of White Papers for a bit of language practice
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constantly with the French Cardinals and flew into a rage at
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eat French food on a picnic
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The French cuisine Roman had prepared might not have been as impressive
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It was a large solid wood door with shiny gate style hinges, instead of the French doors of her time
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Mason's storytelling, to Emma's fight with a pair of French doors
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hostility and conflict between the French and Italian
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interrogate a French citizen? But what can I do? Nothing
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she’s a woman – and that she wrote the book in French
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Sally on the other hand was not in love with French boy
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continued to ramble in that thick-tongued French accent
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French Boy was definitely not
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Maybe he would turn into a pasty white French
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We had this French teacher named Mr
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His nickname was Froggy because he taught French to the students who wanted to take French
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Campo, the French teacher, I was telling you about, would always be there at the Student Council meetings
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She was angry because French Boy, even
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‘I told him I couldn’t speak French
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French pronunciation had thrown him
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one stage), and he treated our attempted French with the
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I love the French!
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French, calling her ‘Monsieur’), and headed off into
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‘The card has been held up in French Customs for
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Defoe was shocked; he didn’t know the girl knew that much French
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French, James decided to substitute her words with a
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A French author of great knowledge and ingenuity, Mr Messance, receiver of the taillies in the election of St Etienne, endeavours to shew that the poor do more work in cheap than in dear years, by comparing the quantity and value of the goods made upon those different occasions in three different manufactures; one of coarse woollens, carried on at Elbeuf; one of linen, and another of silk, both which extend through the whole generality of Rouen
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The great property which they possess both in French and English funds, about forty millions, it is said in the latter (in which, I suspect, however, there is a
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they drew closer, they could see that the French army had
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French, whilst the others came from England, the
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In the history of the arts, now publishing by the French Academy of Sciences, several of
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said the only one of them who could speak French
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stop someone who spoke French
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“Naw, carrot and onion, the french type
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The English and French carried on some trade with India in the last century, but it has been greatly augmented in the course of the present
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Bottles of French Cognac were poured into buckets of water to which herbs and sugar had been added to create cocktails that Nathaniel had never tasted before, but were so delicious that he knew that he would have to control his intake
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The East India trade of all these nations, if we except that of the French, which the last war had well nigh annihilated, has been almost continually augmenting
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At present, the value of the tea annually imported by the English East India company, for the use of their own countrymen, amounts to more than a million and a half a year; and even this is not enough; a great deal more being constantly smuggled into the country from the ports of Holland, from Gottenburgh in Sweden, and from the coast of France, too, as long as the French East India company was in prosperity
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He informs us, too, that if we were to judge of the quantity of gold annually imported from the Brazils to Lisbon, by the amount of the tax paid to the king of Portugal, which it seems, is one-fifth of the standard metal, we might value it at eighteen millions of cruzadoes, or forty-five millions of French livres, equal to about twenty millions sterling
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This, too, used to happen almost constantly in Hispaniola, while it was infested by the buccaneers, and before the settlement, improvement, and populousness of the French plantations ( which now extend round the coast of almost the whole western half of the island) had given some value to the cattle of the Spaniards, who still continue to possess, not only the eastern part of the coast, but the whole inland mountainous part of the country
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symbolized by French Revolution in 1789
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abandoned the church as far back as the French
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Second World War, the idea of a union of French and
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but as a fighter in French résistance
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Let me tell you the short story of the pop star Céline Dion who is an inspiration for French speaking Canadians and a lot of other people all around the world
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used to talk in French? I found out that this
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"ou", as in French, which does not mean that
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they have borrowed the idea from French, but
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conversely, the French took it from the
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French tourists are very few
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Speaking about French implication, the
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It is interesting the French economic involvement in
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{ Some French authors of great learning and ingenuity have used those words in a different sense
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About Plato, a French man
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Thus, in the happiest and most fortunate period of them all, that which has passed since the Restoration, how many disorders and misfortunes have occurred, which, could they have been foreseen, not only the impoverishment, but the total ruin of the country would have been expected from them ? The fire and the plague of London, the two Dutch wars, the disorders of the revolution, the war in Ireland, the four expensive French wars of 1688, 1701, 1742, and 1756, together with the two rebellions of 1715 and 1745
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In the course of the four French wars, the nation has contracted more than £145,000,000 of debt, over and above all the other extraordinary annual expense which they occasioned ; so that the whole cannot be computed at less than £200,000,000
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Notwithstanding the edict of 1766, by which the French king attempted to reduce the rate of interest from five to four per cent
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Neither their substitutions, nor fidei commisses, bear any resemblance to entails, though some French lawyers have thought proper to dress the modern institution in the language and garb of those ancient ones
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A villain, enfranchised, and at the same time allowed to continue in possession of the land, having no stock of his own, could cultivate it only by means of what the landlord advanced to him, and must therefore have been what the French call a metayer
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It is from this period, according to the French antiquarians, that we are to date the institution of the magistrates and councils of cities in France
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Without remounting to the remote antiquities of either the French or English monarchies, we may find, in much later times, many proofs that such effects must always flow from such causes
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The French, in the beginning of the last war, did not derive so much advantage from this expedient as to compensate the loss of the fashion
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The last French war cost Great Britain upwards of £90,000,000, including not only the £75,000,000 of new debt that was contracted, but the additional 2s
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The French kings of the Merovingian race had all treasures
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The English, French, Swedes, and Danes, have all followed their example; so that no great nation of Europe has ever yet had the benefit of a free commerce to the East Indies
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The French have been particularly forward to favour their own manufactures, by restraining the importation of such foreign goods as could come into competition with them
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It was about the same time that the French and English began mutually to oppress each other's industry, by the like duties and prohibitions, of which the French, however, seem to have set the first example, The spirit of hostility which has subsisted between the two nations ever since, has hitherto hindered them from being moderated on either side
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Thus, in Great Britain, Silesia lawns may be imported for home consumption, upon paying certain duties; but French cambrics and lawns are prohibited to be imported, except into the port of London, there to be warehoused for exportation
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of the rate or value, was laid upon all French goods; while the goods of other nations were, the greater part of them, subjected to much lighter duties, seldom exceeding five per cent
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the first not having been thought a sufficient discouragement, was imposed upon all French goods, except brandy ; together with a new duty of five-and-twenty pounds upon the ton of French wine, and another of fifteen pounds upon the ton of French vinegar
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French goods have never been omitted in any of those general subsidies or duties of five per cent
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The French, in their turn, have, I believe, treated our goods and manufactures just as hardly; though I am not so well acquainted with the particular hardships which they have imposed upon them
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Those mutual restraints have put an end to almost all fair commerce between the two nations; and smugglers are now the principal importers, either of British goods into France, or of French goods into Great Britain
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Though the value of the annual importations from France would thereby be greatly augmented, the value of the whole annual importations would be diminished, in proportion as the French goods of the same quality were cheaper than those of the other two countries
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This would be the case, even upon the supposition that the whole French goods imported were to be consumed in Great Britain
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equal in value, perhaps, to the prime cost of the whole French goods imported
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What has frequently been said of the East India trade, might possibly be true of the French; that though the greater part of East India goods were bought with gold and silver, the re-exportation of a part of them to other countries brought back more gold and silver to that which carried on the trade, than the prime cost of the whole amounted to
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One of the most important branches of the Dutch trade at present, consists in the carriage of French goods to other European countries
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Some part even of the French wine drank in Great Britain, is
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When for a sum or money paid in England, containing, according to the standard of the English mint, a certain number of ounces of pure silver, you receive a bill for a sum of money to be paid in France, containing, according to the standard of the French mint, an equal number of ounces of pure silver, exchange is said to be at par between England and France
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The French coin was, before the late reformation of the English gold coin, much less wore than the English, and was perhaps two or three per cent
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A sum of French money, therefore, containing an equal weight of pure silver, is more valuable than a sum of English money containing an equal weight of pure silver, and must require more bullion, or other commodities, to purchase it
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Though the current coin of the two countries, therefore, were equally near the standards of their respective mints, a sum of English money could not well purchase a sum of French money containing an equal number of ounces of pure silver, nor, consequently, a bill upon France for such a sum