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Barrel Radet and Desfontaines each received
Three poets and authors of the theatre of the Vaudevilles, Barrel, Radet, and Desfontaines, each received two hundred napoleons d'or for their common production of a ballad, called "Des Adieux d'un Grenadier au Camp de Boulogne."
— from Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete by Various

Barrel Radet and Desfontaines each received
Three poets and authors of the theatre of the Vaudevilles, Barrel, Radet, and Desfontaines, each received two hundred napoleons d’or for their common production of a ballad, called “Des Adieux d’un Grenadier au Camp de Boulogne.”
— from Memoirs of the Court of St. Cloud (Being secret letters from a gentleman at Paris to a nobleman in London) — Complete by Lewis Goldsmith

Built redoubts and dug entrenchments replied
"Built redoubts and dug entrenchments," replied Barnabas, "an' then we commenced on the huts.
— from In the Days of Washington: A Story of the American Revolution by William Murray Graydon

bank receives a document elevator receipt
In either case the bank receives a document, elevator receipt, or bill of lading, and thus becomes the real owner of the wheat, and can control it afterward until it is actually delivered to the consignee, whoever he may be.
— from Putnam's Handy Law Book for the Layman by Albert Sidney Bolles


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