Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things [Vol II]
“The winters are to fashionable women what a campaign once was to the soldiers of the Empire.”
Les hivers sont pour les femmes à la mode ce que fut jadis une campagne pour les militaires de l’empire.
La Fausse Maîtresse http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_Fausse_Ma%C3%AEtresse (1842), translated by Katharine Prescott Wormeley, ch. II.
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Les hivers sont pour les femmes à la mode ce que fut jadis une campagne pour les militaires de l’empire.
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Referring to the term "cloud computing" in his Oracle OpenWorld 2008 speech, as quoted in "Oracle's Ellison nails cloud computing" at cnet (26 September 2008) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13953_3-10052188-80.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-5.
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"Encyclopedia of Russian History" - Page 1504 by James R. Millar - Soviet Union - 2004.

"Early Encounters" (p. 26)
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)

“The knights in [Britain] that were famous for feats of chivalry, wore their clothes and arms all of the same colour and fashion: and the women also no less celebrated for their wit, wore all the same kind of apparel; and esteemed none worthy of their love, but such as had given a proof of their valour in three several battles. Thus was the valour of the men an encouragement for the women's chastity, and the love of the women a spur to the soldier's bravery.”
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Bk. 9, ch. 13; pp. 244-5.
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Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain)

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Speech (18 April 1891), quoted in Michael Balfour, The Kaiser and His Times (London: Penguin, 1975), p. 158
1890s