compagnie
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The precursors of the modern Mafia were the compagnie d'armi, small private armies that feudal overlords employed to enforce their authority.
From Time Magazine Archive
There, again," cried another: "I never heard anything so unfair as that compagnie d'�lite; they have been, with two solitary exceptions, taken from the cavalry.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Lever, Charles James
I am very glad to hear you are with Hortense and Stephanie, en grande compagnie.
From Napoleon's Letters to Josephine by Hall, Henry Foljambe
You may say bonne compagnie or la haute soci�t�.
From Maria Edgeworth by Zimmern, Helen
Sir George Cartier, too, powerful in the Cabinet and salaried solicitor of the Grand Trunk, was a stumbling-block; he declared himself emphatically opposed to control by any 'sacr�e compagnie am�ricaine.'
From The Railway Builders A Chronicle of Overland Highways by Skelton, Oscar Douglas
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