How To Use Loir In A Sentence
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French glossary: coucher = to lie down matelas = mattress matelot = sailor vouloir = to want
Mexican Humor..A New Forum?
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It was an impossible dream, like Védrine's dahabeeah ending in a punt on the Loire.
The Immortal Or, One Of The "Forty." (L'immortel) - 1877
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Compare the following three texts — the previously-mentioned Passio sancti Pelagii by Hroswitha; Filius Getronis, a twelfth-century play of St. Nicholas from St. - Benoit-sur-Loire; and the tale of the snow child (a fabliau and several other retellings throughout the period). back
A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries
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Alternatively, you could hire a bike and follow the course of the River Loir from Vendome to its confluence with the Sarthe.
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In northern Italy and in France, south of the Loire, the main tenurial development of the seventeenth century was a massive extension of share-cropping, whereby landlords received rents as a fixed percentage of their tenants' crops.
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Surely it's worth stepping off at Tours, taking in a Loire chateau or two, before haring down to the Atlantic.
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The vine is a precocious one, budding, flowering, and ripening early, which makes it prone to spring frosts but means that it can flourish in regions as cool as much of the Loire.
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Philippe-le-Bel, par hypocrisie de z鑜e et de religion, affecta un moment de vouloir en former une nouvelle pour la France.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Stone tools of the tradition include triangular points made on flakes, racloirs, triangular bifacial handaxes, and burins and awls made on blades.
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A few days ago I mentioned cantal cheese in a posting, and Dennis asked me in a comment if we can get the three different cantal cheese styles here in the Loire Valley.
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But another Sherpa guide had dropped his ice axe, effectively stranding him, so Chhiring tied him to his harness, and down climbed the couloir with his friend hanging off him.
Freddie Wilkinson: Heroes in Fine Print
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I checked the French toponymic dictionary for Indre-et-Loire in the hopes of finding something relevant, but no luck.
Languagehat.com: POEME EN LANGUE INCONNUE.
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M. Carnot was of opinion, that it was necessary, to declare the country in danger, call the federates and national guards to arms, place Paris in a state of siege, defend it, at the last extremity retire behind the Loire, form intrenchments there, recall the army of
Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II
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Le jeune homme ne tarda pas à partir, que Dieu conduise ses pas pour sa plus grande gloire, la seule chose à laquelle nous devons tous aspirer.
The Letters of St. Teresa
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We dropped our packs and did a fast recon up to the base of Koh-i-Bardar to find our line: a steep couloir to a knife-edge ridge to the summit.
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I beetle through woods along a track, with the Loire to myself.
Times, Sunday Times
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Barry had climbed the couloir once before, in 1982, back when he admits he didn't know all that much about avalanche conditions.
A Nature for the Great Outdoors
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Global warming and better practices in the vineyard and the winery have transformed the Loire.
Times, Sunday Times
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[33] Cest une outrecuidance insupportable de la vouloir faire dependre de la volonte de l'homme, ou transporter une partie d'icelle aux moyens et preparatifs humain.
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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Comprising five regions - Poitou-Charentes, Western Loire, the Loire Valley, Brittany and Normandy - Western France seduces and delights with the ease of a seasoned boulevardier.
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The mountain is rife with couloirs, spikes, boulders, cornices, and knobs, and a majority of its leaps are manageable by most advanced skiers.
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Cutting precision turns with a fixed heel, blasting through crud and powder, handling a steep couloir with skill and verve - fun is a word that doesn't even come close to this wonderful experience.
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Under a bluebird sky, he stood staring at 5,000 vertical feet of untracked powder, which disappeared down a steep-walled couloir that hadn't been touched all winter.
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Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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This Loire Valley style red would probably severely disappoint the followers of the afore-mentioned "boozy" reds, but Cab Franc, and specifically the T23, is what we do best.
Red, With Envy: Assessing 2007 Finger Lakes Reds
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In the Vendee, south of the Loire, civil war was soon raging, with the rebels organizing themselves into a self-styled Catholic and Royal Army dedicated to restoring the heirs of the martyred king.
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From April 6 through April 9, the team participates in La Sarthe, a five-stage race in four days that takes place in Pays de la Loire, in the western part of France.
Bicycle.net | Attitude is Everything
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The group threaded its way up treacherous couloirs and 50-degree snow slopes, cutting steps with ice axes.
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Musset's _Merle Blanc_, and like them we live "de plaisir, d'honneur, de bavardage, de gloire et de chiffons.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
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Although at least the government was now in one place rather than scattered around the Loire, this also made it easier for Reynaud's opponents to concert their activities.
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The best summer-suitable reds that taste delicious chilled on hot days are lighter, lively, less alcoholic but more acidic wines made from restrained red grapes such as the Loire's Cabernet franc and Beaujolais' gamay.
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Above them, a giant serac - a hanging block of glacial ice - had collapsed and was tumbling down the couloir.
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He competed fiercely and his goal was not the happiness of the beloved but his own gloire and reputation.
The Times Literary Supplement
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A Loire Sauvignon Blanc called “Kiwi Cuvee” gets a thumbs down from Australian regulatory authorities after objections from their Antipodean neighbor.
Sarah Palin, impossible pairings, glasses, kiwi cuvee – sipped and spit | Dr Vino's wine blog
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They were not roped together at this point, and Doug decided to scout a way across the rock face into another chimney, or perhaps to a couloir they could use as a way down.
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I beetle through woods along a track, with the Loire to myself.
Times, Sunday Times
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This technique will get you down a couloir no wider than your skis, allow you to climb - albeit strenuously - without skins, and save you from all manner of hairy situations.
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It was bred as recently as 1852 in the Loire, probably as a table grape from Chasselas and the distinctly ordinary Muscat de Saumur, according to Galet.
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First, a week in a 'gite' in the Loire Valley countryside near Angers, relaxing (me) and practising (Tom).
Archive 2004-09-01
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Under his wing, the full range of skiing opportunities became apparent: within the space of two days we tried everything from the easiest green runs to double black diamond couloirs.
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The route to the summit of K2 follows steepening snow slopes towards a snow and ice couloir called "the Bottleneck".
Freddie Wilkinson: Avalanche Triggers Survival Situation on K2
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Land is quite reasonable in the Pays de la Loire and many rural properties come with much larger gardens than in the UK.
Et Figures | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Coated with tasty Utah powder, the narrow couloir below us was nothing less than a 2,000-vertical foot statement of nature's perfection.
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Suddenly, the majesty of the Alps and the chateaus on the Loire faded to gray behind your baby blue eyes and the halo of your golden curls.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: New Moms
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Alors je disais qu'il allait falloir faire le tri dans tout ce chantier!
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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His hotel is situated in one of the loveliest places on the Loire.
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Now consider, first, the difference in their influence over the armies of France, between the ancient word "devoir," and modern word "gloire.
Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853
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‘No guts, no glory’ is the motto here and the 2,500 skiable acres of the resort includes innumerable chutes, bowls, faces and couloirs with legends of die-hards and desperadoes and near-death experiences attached to them.
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Vous rêvez de gloire, de strass et surtout de commentaires par milliers?
A Brief Update — Climb to the Stars
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The rescue team went on to say that they had witnessed a climber in a red suit with patches fall from the middle of the Traverse, the section of the route which connects the top of the Bottleneck couloir to the summit slopes.
Freddie Wilkinson: The Abandonment of Gerard McDonnell
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I was climbing with Barry Blanchard, a noted Canadian alpinist, heading up a route called Grand Central Couloir, a steep, technical gully that splits the north face of Kitchener.
A Nature for the Great Outdoors
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Va falloir qu'il prenne du poil de la bete son Altesse le Prince Pinku!!
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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The Loire valley is a perfect place for family cycle rides thanks to its flat patchwork of farmland, vineyards and woods.
Times, Sunday Times
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I beetle through woods along a track, with the Loire to myself.
Times, Sunday Times
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The stately bridge was occupied by a throng of people, who swore that the men under whose rule the Loire had been choked with corpses should have full personal experience of the nature of a _noyade_.
Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
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And verb tense can change the meaning of the verb, as in "Elle ne voulait pas me dire" (imparfait of vouloir) meaning "She did not want to tell me" vs "Elle ne vu pas me dire" (passe compose) meaning "She refused to tell me.
Canard - French Word-A-Day
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It was arguably fair, when André Maurois finished his Histoire de la France, to permit him a small allowance of la gloire and to agree with his conclusion that “The history of France, a permanent miracle, has the singular privilege of impassioning the peoples of the earth to the point where they all take part in French quarrels.”
A French Quarrel
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We pick a line of lesser resistance, but nonetheless find ourselves perched above a steep couloir.
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I think that those in attendance found this a very refreshing stop -- both because the focus is on white wines and because Chris talked more about similarities to Friuli, Austria and the Loire Valley than Bordeaux, which we heard several times during the weekend.
The New York Cork Report:
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So where better to focus than France's Loire Valley, known best for its grapes which thrive on acid soils and produce some of the best and most palatable wines to suit barbecue steaks or fish and seafood.
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To get down that tongue of rock to the lower snows of the couloir was a job that fairly brought us to the end of our tether.
Mr. Standfast
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Shorter skis weigh less, are easier to carry on a pack, and will turn with ease through the tightest trees and narrowest couloirs.
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Vouvray Mousseux can often offer more interest than other Loire sparkling wines, to those who appreciate the honeyed aromas of Chenin Blanc, at least.
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Ingrande, where we dined, is the last town of the province of Bretagne, on the Loire, and thenceforwards we had entered Anjou.
Travels through the South of France and the Interior of Provinces of Provence and Languedoc in the Years 1807 and 1808
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The snow in the couloir is a delight, turned sugary because it has sat untouched on the hill for so long, and we whoop as we ski down it, stopping occasionally to take photos, before we eventually reach a snow-covered road in a forgotten side valley.
The Guardian World News
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Sire, nous rendons graces ` a Dieu, de ce que n'ayans eu iusques icy aucun acces ` a vostre Maieste, pour luy faire entendre la rigueur des persecutions que nous avons endurees, et endurons iournellement pour vouloir suyure la purete de l'Evangile, et le repos de nostre conscience: maintenant il nous fait cet heur de veoir qu'avez la volonte de connoitre le merite de nostre cause, suyvant l'Edit dernier donne ` a Amboise au moys de Mars, l'An present 1559, qu'il a pleu ` a vostre Maieste faire publier.
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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In the north part of the Pays de la Loire region, you will find traditional stone-built houses and longeres and barn conversions, as well as the cream-coloured new builds, while houses in the Vendee have a more Mediterranean feel with stucco and red-tiled roofs.
Et Figures | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Of course, to become a marchioness was a substantial lure as well, especially when Raoul talked of the family estates in the Loire.
The Dressmaker
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Whoever owned this house was stinking rich, but it was doubtful that they were more wealthy than the Loires.
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He is known for skiing big alpine faces, couloirs, and even serious ice climbs, from the Alps to the Himalayas.
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Loire was kneading his dough; his wife was sifting meal; Oudart was toping in his office; the gentlemen were playing at tennis; the Lord Basche at in-and-out with my lady; the waiting-men and gentle-women at push-pin; the officers at lanterloo, and the pages at hot-cockles, giving one another smart bangs.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 4
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Now, in a region better known for radical couloirs than radical causes, air quality has moved to the top of the agenda.
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The group threaded its way up treacherous couloirs and 50-degree snow slopes, cutting steps with ice axes.
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A town of central France on the Loire River northeast of Tours.
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To listen to the erudite and cosmically conscious Monsieur Joly explain the tenets of biodynamics, the system of holistic agriculture based on the teachings of Austrian theosophist Rudolph Steiner, while walking the rolling hills of his vineyard on the north bank of the Loire, it's easy to be convinced that conventional agriculture is pernicious and that biodynamics is the future, if not necessarily to understand it in rational terms.
Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc
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The Loire Valley of France is famous for its many romantic chateaux and its wines.
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Bourbons, that duty (performed by other generals and termed the disbanding of the army of the Loire) could not atone for the crime of having followed the man of the Hundred-Days to his last battle-field.
Sons of the Soil
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* Sire, nous rendons graces ` a Dieu, de ce que n'ayans eu iusques icy aucun acces ` a vostre Maieste, pour luy faire entendre la rigueur des persecutions que nous avons endurees, et endurons iournellement pour vouloir suyure la purete de l'Evangile, et le repos de nostre conscience: maintenant il nous fait cet heur de veoir qu'avez la volonte de connoitre le merite de nostre cause, suyvant l'Edit dernier donne ` a Amboise au moys de Mars, l'An present 1559, qu'il
The Creeds of the Evangelical Protestant Churches.
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Pauper's Sancerre does not come better than the tart, racy, lemony fruit of this stylish Loire Sauvignon, a joint effort of French and Antipodean winemakers.
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The mustachioed Mr. Blot began his career as a negotiant in Tours and gradually began acquiring small domains in Montlouis, a not-terribly-fashionable appellation on the South Bank of the Loire, and eventually a few acres in the more illustrious town of Vouvray, across the river.
Singing of France's Unsung Chenin Blanc
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The stately bridge was occupied by a throng of people, who swore that the men under whose rule the Loire had been choked with corpses should have full personal experience of the nature of a noyade.
Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2
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I carry off Madam Magloire, I enter my chamber, I pray for him and fall asleep.
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Mademoiselle Loiré was most sympathetic and unreproachful, and, having dried her sister's tears, led her into the house, where the whole party sat down to cake and cider, under the influence of which Mademoiselle
Barbara in Brittany
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Mathematically, the best course to take when trying to close on a ship to windward was to keep the ship being chased right in the wind's eye, and that was where the Hotspur now found herself again, relative to the Loire, while the latter, resuming her former course, closehauled, was twenty or thirty yards nearer to her in the direction of the wind.
Hornblower And The Hotspur
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French authorities are also worried that the Loire River may crest this weekend between Orléans and Angers.
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So they turned their attentions to climbing a neighbouring couloir (a gully up the side of a mountain) which they completed in eight hours the following day.
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A range of property styles are available in the Pays de la Loire, from stone-built longeres long houses to village townhouses to elegant chateaux, and everything in between.
Et Figures | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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Vietnamese or Thai: Clos Palet Vouvray, France 2009 £7.35, MorrisonsSomething in the slightly tart, fresh, green, appley flavours of this off-dry Loire white works well with the the kind of herbs – coriander, mint, Thai basil – used in Vietnamese and Thai salads and noodle dishes.
The best wine and food matches
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It is assumed that the inspiration for the design of the manor came from Italian Late Gothic, above all urban towered signories and French Renaissance, specially the Renaissance Castles on the Loire.
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It was after his first visit, a quick, four-day trip during which we went to several of the Loire Valley chateaux that surround Tours.
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We dropped our packs and did a fast recon up to the base to find our line: a steep couloir to a knife-edge ridge to the summit.
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Here are the high plains and deeply-cleft bocage country of Normandy, the stony, prehistoric wilds of Brittany, and the richly-planted riversides of the Seine and the Loire.
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‘Those couloirs have been there forever,’ says Dawson, ‘and we've had athletes capable of skiing them for 20 or 30 years.’
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Thankfully all photographic evidence of our tour of the Loire Valley has been destroyed, so no one will ever be able to confirm how truly hideous my outfit was.
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Loire Cabernet Francs are at their best in hot vintages like 2003, when their potentially stalky flavours are transformed by sunshine.
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Three or four awkward bits were circumvented; a couloir or gully full of snow mounted; and then there was a long climb up a moderate slope toward where a ridge of rocks stood out sharply, with snow sloping down on either side, the ridge running up far into the mountain; but before they could get to this a deep bed of old snow -- "firn" Melchior called it -- a great sheet, like some large white field, had to be passed.
The Crystal Hunters A Boy's Adventures in the Higher Alps
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My board takes a real beating as I exit the couloir.
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Another was observed at a restaurant called RSJ (for Rolled Steel Joists — a name derived from the adventure of renovating the building, apparently), right near the National Theatre, open late and noted for its wonderful selection of Loire Valley wines at reasonable prices (reasonable for London, that is).
Polenta Cake Inspired By a Trip Across the Pond - Bitten Blog - NYTimes.com
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About two hours after departing the lodge, the group reached the bottom and entered the west couloir.
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Without body and sufficient fruit flavors, Sauvignon blanc wines from the Loire Valley are offensively vegetal and aggressively acidic.
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I beetle through woods along a track, with the Loire to myself.
Times, Sunday Times
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This composition lends itself to rich and diversified farming: cattle raised for meat consumption in the regions of Ancenis and Châteaubriant; milk production in Redon; vegetable gardens in the alluvial valley of the Loire; and vineyards cultivating Muscadets and Gamays in the Ancenis hills and throughout the entire regions south of the Loire.
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Above them, a giant serac - a hanging block of glacial ice - had collapsed and was tumbling down the couloir.
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Napoléon n'avait encore que vingt ans, lorsqu'un officier russe lui dit avec beaucoup de suffisance, que les Russes se battaient pour la gloire, et que les Français ne se battaient que pour l'argent.
French Conversation and Composition
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To accompany the first course, asparagus with sauce mousseline, he chose a 1986 Chinon, a young red wine from the Loire Valley.
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The Pays de la Loire has good air and train links, and is about three or four hours drive from the ferry and Eurotunnel terminals.
Et Figures | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
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He was born under the Pyrenees; he was a Gascon of the Gascons, one of a people strongly distinguished by intellectual and moral character, by manners, by modes of speech, by accent, and by physiognomy from the French of the Seine and of the Loire; and he had many of the peculiarities of the race to which he belonged.
Critical and Historical Essays, Volume III (of 3)
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Gérard Marula Le Haut Midi, Touraine, Loire, France 2009 (£17.75, Green & Blue Wines)A so-called natural wine, meaning it was made with minimal intervention in the winery (including no added sulphur), this blend of cabernets franc and sauvignon with grolleau, is joyously alive with singing floral-edged raspberry fruit and a kind of spicy succulence.
The 20 best Christmas red wines
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There are wines that have proven their computability with local cuisines over the centuries, wines such as Sancerre in the Loire, Rioja in Spain, Chianti in Tuscany, and the lighter wines of the French and Italian Riviera.
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In the old days, nobody wanted to hear a word about cabernet francs from the Loire," he said.
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One suggestion is opening luxury hotels in chateaux including Chambord in the central Loire Valley and Rambouillet outside Paris.
Cash-Strapped France Turns To Tourism For Financial Aid
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Bien entendu, mais le temps d'avoir les sous il va falloir faire quand meme la route et qui sait apparemment ca ne sera que plusieurs petits contrats.
Pinku-tk Diary Entry
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We started down and did two rappels in the Stettner Couloir.
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Those captured are killed by a variety of means: some are hanged, some are decapitated, some are drawn and quartered, some are defenestrated (thrown from upper floor windows), some are put into sacks and thrown into the Loire to drown.
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We have done homage to the old lacemakers of Haute-Loire.
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I am currently reading "La Gloire de mon Père", by Marcel Pagnol.
Fifille - French Word-A-Day
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Circuit Cycliste Sarthe - Pays de la Loire stage four.
Undefined
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In fact Loire Valley reds can be real treasures.
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They seem oddly reluctant to follow the example of producers in the Loire, who use the name of the local river.
Times, Sunday Times
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We are accustomed to laugh at the French for their braggadocio propensities, and intolerable vanity about La France, la gloire, l’Empereur, and the like; and yet I think in my heart that the British Snob, for conceit and self-sufficiency and braggartism in his way, is without a parallel.
The Book of Snobs
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We wanted some payola, one of those fabled press trips where someone peels your grapes, plies you with fine wines then bores you slowly to death detailing the intricacies of cheese-making in the Loire Valley while you feign great interest.
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Mother Yvonne–Aimée used to pray: "Très Sainte Trinité, faites en moi tout ce que vous voulez trouver en moi, afin que vous puissiez tirer de mon néant tout l'amour et toute la gloire que vous aviez en vue en me créant.
The problem of empathy
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‘It's from the Loire Valley,’ went his description of one well-known chèvre.
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Meanwhile, a poll in the Brittany and the Pays de la Loire areas has produced a "yes" vote by 52 percent compared to 48 percent for "non".
Splits on response to French "non"
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Unless you plan on climbing steep couloirs at over 40 degrees, or ice climbing, use one of the super-lightweight axes now available.
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Although at least the government was now in one place rather than scattered around the Loire, this also made it easier for Reynaud's opponents to concert their activities.
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And it's prone to just halving off building-size chunks of ice and flushing down to the couloir, and if you're there at the wrong time, you're in big trouble.
Stories From The 'Savage Mountain': Death On K2
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Cave home in Loire is charming bioclimatic troglodyte house
Kirsten Dirksen: Abandoned Stable Now Water-independent, Off-grid, Family Dream Home (VIDEO)
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Kina had skied big lines in the Tetons for years; on many of them, if you failed to make the right turn at the right time, you would fall for a thousand feet, pinballing between the rocky walls of the couloir until you ragdolled out the bottom.
Christian Beckwith: Greening the Barrio, Part 6
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* Cest une outrecuidance insupportable de la vouloir faire dependre de la volonte de l'homme, ou transporter une partie d'icelle aux moyens et preparatifs humain: [846] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2
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The best known Gamays come from Beaujolais, but it also grows well in the Loire valley as Gamay de Tourraine and as Vin de Pays du Jardin.
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But at its narrowest the couloir is about two ski lengths wide.
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Upon this Oudart put on his sacerdotal, and Loire and his wife their nuptial badges; Trudon piped it, and then tabored it like mad; all made haste to get ready, not forgetting the gauntlets.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
