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des rozes Et du soleil
Ell' prist son teint des beux lyz blanchissans, Son chef de l'or, ses deux levres des rozes, Et du soleil ses yeux resplandissans: Le ciel usant de liberalite, Mist en l'esprit ses semences encloses, Son nom des Dieux prist l'immortalite.
— from The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry by Walter Pater

de référence et de sous
De plus, logiquement, une adresse à un tiers est le plus souvent succinte, pleine de référence et de sous-entendus, entre le ton parlé, un ton un peu littéraire, un ton un peu dépersonnalisé par rapport à la parole, mais proche quand même de son interlocuteur.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

de recherche et de service
Nous sommes en effet "Unité de recherche et de service" et nous avons donc à trouver des clients pour nos produits informatisés, le plus connu d'entre eux étant la base textuelle Frantext.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

de réagir et de se
Les associations professionnelles de libraires des 29 pays fédérées autour de la Ligue internationale de la librairie ancienne (LILA) ont décidé de réagir et de se regrouper autour d'un gigantesque moteur de recherche mondial sous l'égide de la LILA, à partir du site www.ilab-lila.com.
— from Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas by Marie Lebert

de regret et de soumission
c. A quoi j'ajoutai tout ce que vous pouvez vous imaginer de respect de douleur, de regret, et de soumission, &c. (Memoires, tom. i. p. 140.)
— from The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Table of Contents with links in the HTML file to the two Project Gutenberg editions (12 volumes) by Edward Gibbon

de Rêves et de Sangs
The work is dedicated to Mallarmé, "Père et seigneur des ors, des pierreries, et des poissons," and other works are to follow:—the six tomes of "Légendes de Rêves et de Sangs," the innumerable tomes of "La Glose," and the single tome of "La Loi."
— from Confessions of a Young Man by George Moore

Dragon remained ever divine so
Till then, the Tree remained ever green, for it was sprinkled by the Waters of Life; the Great Dragon remained ever divine, so long as it was kept within the precincts of the sidereal fields.
— from The Secret Doctrine, Vol. 1 of 4 by H. P. (Helena Petrovna) Blavatsky

de Ronsard et de son
2.--Les Chefs-d'Œuvre lyriques de Ronsard et de son École.
— from Seven Legends by Gottfried Keller

death renewed each day so
But Corona d'Astrardente was a very brave and strong woman, and she bore what seemed to her like the agony of death renewed each day, so calmly that those who knew her thought it was but a passing indisposition or annoyance, unusual with her, who was never ill nor troubled, but yet insignificant.
— from Saracinesca by F. Marion (Francis Marion) Crawford

de reine et de sainte
Avec tous ses airs de reine et de sainte—she was terrible.
— from The Street Called Straight by Basil King

dry room every day safe
We see some old workman, filling cans with a whirring machine; and we hear the humanitarians telling us, indignant and grieving, that he actually must stand in that nice, warm, dry room every day, safe from storms and wild beasts, and with nothing to do but fill cans; and at once we groan: "How deadly!
— from This Simian World by Clarence Day

de ressources et de sang
Je n’ai pas ici à me faire une réputation de héros magnanime, mais à guérir, si la cure est possible, l’Europe qui se meurt, épuisée de ressources et de sang, l’Europe dont vous négligez les vrais intérêts, pré-occupés que vous êtes d’une vaine renommée de clémence.
— from The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 1 by Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell

de road en dem songs
Let me get dese chillun in de road en dem songs gwine start travelin out my head faster den lightnin— Bertha Lee—Aun' Izzie, make Joseph come on.
— from Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves South Carolina Narratives, Part 1 by United States. Work Projects Administration


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