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This was the nation's hero , Admiral Lord Rodney , who had defeated the Spanish fleet off Cape St Vincent in 1780 , and the French off Dominica in the West Indies in 1782 , and who died full of honours exactly twenty years before John ...
This was the nation's hero , Admiral Lord Rodney , who had defeated the Spanish fleet off Cape St Vincent in 1780 , and the French off Dominica in the West Indies in 1782 , and who died full of honours exactly twenty years before John ...
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I have , rather naturally , not been able to find this expression in the French dictionaries . It is suggested ( though not by Sigerist ) that loo is this lieu . 7 ) Le Père Bourdaloue ( 16321704 ) was a most celebrated French preacher ...
I have , rather naturally , not been able to find this expression in the French dictionaries . It is suggested ( though not by Sigerist ) that loo is this lieu . 7 ) Le Père Bourdaloue ( 16321704 ) was a most celebrated French preacher ...
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I am sure that it is to be sought in a sporadic French joke . Le water ( short for water - closet ) is a French expression for lavatory ' . Hence , by way of a joke , one could say le waterloo . One informant tells me that he has ...
I am sure that it is to be sought in a sporadic French joke . Le water ( short for water - closet ) is a French expression for lavatory ' . Hence , by way of a joke , one could say le waterloo . One informant tells me that he has ...
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NOSTALGIA ON WHEELS BY R HUDSON SMITH 113 | 47 |
PRIMA DONNA IN A PLAIN SUIT BY LESLIE GARDINER 154 | 59 |
QUEST FOR A MIRACLE BY VIRGINIA STUART 418 | 142 |
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