They were the lightships marking the middle bank of the Gironde, which is many miles wide at this spot and rendered dangerous by innumerable sandbanks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Hope] Reference

They were the lightships marking the middle bank of the Gironde, which is many miles wide at this spot and rendered dangerous by innumerable sand-banks.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Hope] Reference

Sainte-Foy la Grande, Gironde, on the 28th of June 1824.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"] Reference

Or suppose the invading force flooded ashore at the mouth of the Gironde?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sharpe's Siege]

Gironde simply couldn't do the job for the amount that they had bid otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hearing]

Club of Paris, and to the Mountain, which at this time was preparing to crush the Gironde.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. From George III. to Victoria] Reference

On the Gironde's left bank, there are some beautiful wines, particularly in Saint-Estèphe.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Vintage That Will Age for a Century] Reference

The Dordogne and the Garonne flow north westward, meeting to form the great expanse of the Gironde estuary.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Back-Label Approach] Reference

Gironde; the brig was sailing from Dunkirken to Bordeaux with flour and bread for the Third French Division.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific American Supplement, No. 514, November 7, 1885] Reference

SERVADAC (Hector), born at St. Trelody in the district of Lesparre, department of the Gironde, July 19th, 18 —.    From Wordnik.com.  [Off on a Comet] Reference

A correspondent writes that he sends a sample of a substance said to have fallen at Montussan (Gironde), Oct. 16, 1883.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of the Damned] Reference

The wines of the Medoc, that district of the Gironde which produces the finest clarets, namely, Chateau Margaux, Chateau.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia] Reference

Gironde would put people on the payroll, then give them a handful of cash to stay home and lie about working on the project.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hearing]

At the request of the Board of Supervisors, Gironde was now preparing a revised second bid with a new list of subcontractors.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Hearing]

Normandy; the Southerns will follow us; the men of Bordeaux and of the Gironde: have not their own orators, the leaders of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Vend�e] Reference

When Vergniaud was reelected to the National Convention from the Gironde, he joined deputies who proposed the declaration of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Names] Reference

Normandy and the Gironde may be unwilling to submit to the Jacobin leaders, but they are as yet as warmly attached to the Republic as.    From Wordnik.com.  [La Vend�e] Reference

Legislative Assembly, critic of the Paris Commune after 10 August 1792, and representative of the Gironde to the National Convention.    From Wordnik.com.  [Names] Reference

Poitou and Saintonge without damage and came to Blaye, and there passed the river of Gironde and arrived in the good city of Bordeaux.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)] Reference

The wines of the Medoc, that district of the Gironde which produces the finest clarets, namely, Chateau Margaux, Chateau Lafitte, Chateau.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

Their name comes from the fact that many of the party's most outspoken orators came from the department of the Gironde in southwest France.    From Wordnik.com.  [Annotations] Reference

In the cellars of the most famous Ch â teaux that line the gravel mounds of the Gironde estuary in Bordeaux, the 2009 vintage has been maturing in barrel.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Bull Market for Wine] Reference

Buzot and his companions escaped by sea to the Gironde.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on the French Revolution] Reference

The Gironde had no constitutional remedy for its anxieties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on the French Revolution] Reference

Rout and extermination ensued upon the fall of the Gironde.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on the French Revolution] Reference

Mountain, Isnard and Lanjuinais of the Gironde, Boissy d'Anglas of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on the French Revolution] Reference

The 'mystery island' created by cyclone Klaus in the mouth of the Gironde estuary.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Guardian World News] Reference

Rochelle, and there take a boat to Royan -- that shallow harbour at the mouth of the Gironde.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Hope] Reference

But by chance I found myself one evening in a drawing-room with the leaders of the party of the Gironde.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Preacher and His Models The Yale Lectures on Preaching 1891] Reference

The "faithful city," as the capital of the Gironde was then named, distinguished itself by its enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X] Reference

To play to the gallery was his first instinct; and the tottering fortunes of the Gironde made it almost a necessity.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Pitt and the Great War] Reference

Jean was to accompany them to the cottage of an old man who had once lived by ferrying the rare passenger across the Gironde.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Hope] Reference

Gironde, he sent off General Lallemand on the spur, to ascertain the existence of the vessel, and the sentiments of the captain.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815, Vol. II] Reference

It was clear that menace and outrage would not move him, and that more was wanted than the half-hearted measures of the Gironde.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lectures on the French Revolution] Reference

That said, I think Cabernet Sauvignon is king in the special areas of Pauillac and St-Julien, on the Left Bank overlooking the Gironde.    From Wordnik.com.  [Irish Blogs] Reference