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Usage examples of assis.

Buloz assis par terre Lui fait de doux serments, Solange par derriere Gribouille ses romans.

Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis, a work that self-consciously recollects the novels of Sterne but also anticipates twentieth-century novels.

Lucianic tradition includes, among others, Erasmus, More, Rabelais, Swift, Sterne, Diderot, Peacock, Jean Paul Richter, Machado de Assis, and such postmodern figures as Borges, Rushdie, and Kundera.

Les prisonniers assis contre la muraille lui firent une escorte de regards envieux.

A natural extension of this assis tance is to train law enforcement officers in, or at least acquaint them with, the application of behavioral science techniques to the investigation of violent crime.

Elle se leva, tandis que Roger restait assis, aneanti, ecrase par ces terribles revelations.

Gobain, of Assis, of Marie, of La Fere, of Folembray, of Montmirail, of Oisy, of Crevecoeur, of La Ferte-Aucoul and La Ferte-Gauche, Viscount of Meaux, Castellan de Cambrai.

Pendant assez longtemps il la promena en tournant devant la table ou madame de Barizel et Savine etaient restes assis puis, ayant releve les avirons, il laissa la barque descendre lentement le courant.

Andre Assis, Institute of Physics, Campinas, Brazil, for answering questions on his theoretical work deriving the gravitational force as an electrical effect.

Even if the strike force hadn't succeeded in killing Amadori, the general was going to have to allow medical assis- BALANCE OF POWER 405 tance into the palace.

As the accompt of the Assis ariseth, and coming at the last unto Usura ex asse, it amounteth to twelve in the hundred, and therefore the Latins call it Centesima, for that in the hundred month it doubleth the principal.