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chenier

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A Chenier is a former beach that, through the activities of nature, have become isolated from the sea by strips of marshes. Chenier may also mean: Clifton Chenier , U.S. musician André Chénier , French poet (1762-1794) Andrea Chénier , an opera inspired ...

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n. (context Louisiana dialect English) An area of shrub oak growing in sandy soil.

Usage examples of chenier.

The special commission appointed to make recommendations was a peculiar mixture of literary men such as Fabre Romme and Marie-Joseph Chenier and serious scientists such as Monge and Fourcroy.

Although the literature of France could boast of many men of great talent, such as La Harpe, who died during the Consulate, Ducis, Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, Chenier, and Lemercier, yet they could not be compared with Lagrange, Laplace, Monge, Fourcroy, Berthollet, and Cuvier, whose labours have so prodigiously extended the limits of human knowledge.

The lurid nature of a father contracting the abduction of his own child fed a wildfire of sensationalist journalism, but even before the worst of it, Lucy Chenier concluded that life with yours truly was not worth the risk, so she took her son and went home.

I did not reveal these things to the reporters who mobbed me for interviews after the events with Ben Chenier, but somehow the information found its way into their stories.

Lucy Chenier, she pictured Lucille Ball, all that wild red hair, bulging eyes, and loony bullshit with Ethel Mertz.

Picturing Ben Chenier telling his ten-year-old buddies about me caused an ache in my chest.

Richard Chenier had hired three mercenaries to kidnap his son, and five people had died before it was over.

Andre Chenier is now recognised as one of the finest masters of song who have enriched French literature, and his poems are more and more studied and admired both by his own countrymen and abroad.

Louis XVI the projector, Laperouse and de Langle the commanders, Dentrecasteaux and Kermadec the searchers, Andre Chenier the laureate: the breath of the black-robed Fury was upon them all!

Once upon a time, as Olivia Chenier, spoiled and wild and the youngest of the golden Archer clan, she had been as glamorous and above their touch as a movie star to the people of the town.

The girl asked Big John to give her friend Selena Chenier a job, and he did.

I had a mental image of myself as Andrea Chenier, in his tumbrel, rattling along the cobbled streets of Paris on his way to the guillotine.

Camille Desmoulins, the Chenier brothers, the sans-culotte militant Ronsin and many others.

Romantic weather-forecasting like Andre Chenier and William Wordsworth, who felt its drama, continued to describe the Revolution as a great cyclonic disturbance.

David, together with a team of collaborators that included Gossec and Marie-Joseph Chenier, to consummate the formal acceptance of the new constitution.