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something that is outstanding — especially a literary work that is long and heroic
- I still make epics and tragedies now and then; but that which brings me in most is the industry with which you are acquainted, master; carrying pyramids of chairs in my teeth.2.10.1 — Vol 2 Bk 10 Chpt 1 — Gringoire Has Many Good.... (29% in)
- Here, assuredly, is more than sufficient to render a life happy and illustrious, and to deserve some day a notable page in that interesting history of the provosts of Paris, where one learns that Oudard de Villeneuve had a house in the Rue des Boucheries, that Guillaume de Hangest purchased the great and the little Savoy, that Guillaume Thiboust gave the nuns of Sainte-Geneviève his houses in the Rue Clopin, that Hugues Aubriot lived in the Hôtel du Pore-Epic, and other domestic facts.1.6.1 — Vol 1 Bk 6 Chpt 1 — An Impartial Glance at.... (25% in)
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