Aunis
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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"Let me take one hundred of the gendarmes of Aunis; I have plenty of friends there, and can choose whom I like."
From The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Dumas père, Alexandre
Gascony, Aunis, and Saintonge sent their wines to Flanders; Guyenne sent hers to England.
From Manners, Customs, and Dress During the Middle Ages and During the Renaissance Period by Jacob, P. L.
After this, says the chronicler, St. Louis returned to his dominion of France, leaving garrisons in all the strong places of Saintonge and Aunis.
From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Costello, Louisa Stuart
The road is level, but the scenes pleasing and the air fine; though, as you advance in the ancient Aunis, towards the sea, low grounds, which have been marshes, extend to a considerable distance.
From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Costello, Louisa Stuart
It had been so that night with the gendarmes of Aunis; for seeing their chiefs abandon them, they agreed together to draw their ranks closer, instead of breaking them.
From The Forty-Five Guardsmen by Dumas père, Alexandre
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