St.-John Perse

[ sin-juhn -purs ]

/ ˈsɪn dʒən ˈpɜrs /

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Alexis Saint-Léger Léger, 1887–1975, French diplomat and poet: Nobel Prize in literature 1960.

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“Was” is used for the indicative past tense of “to be,” and “were” is only used for the subjunctive past tense.

A few years back, designer John Galliano was fined by the government for sharing just such anti-semitic sentiments in public.
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The St. Thomas gathering happened around 2005, according to Krauss.
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At St. Barnabas Hospital, Pellerano was listed in stable condition with wounds to his chest and arm.
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NEW ORLEANS — John Boehner was reelected House Speaker yesterday by his Republican colleagues despite some dissenting members.
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And similar shards of enthusiasm-killing kryptonite are lodged in John Kasich, Mike Pence and Ted Cruz.
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In the evening, St. Peter's and its accessories were illuminated—by far the most brilliant spectacle I ever saw.
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After all, may not even John Burns be human; may not Mr. Chamberlain himself have a heart that can feel for another?
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The great plague of this and the subsequent year broke out at St. Giles, London.
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Hamo in alluding to the early cultivation of tobacco by the colony, says, that John Rolfe was the pioneer tobacco planter.
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John Wilson, a celebrated landscape and marine painter, died at Folkstone, aged 81.
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