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Riviere

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Ri`viere´
n.1.A necklace of diamonds or other precious stones, esp. one of several strings.


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Riviere added with simplicity that he should then have to look out for another job.
More than eight hundred miles of hard travelling, and many weary days, had it cost them; and the sufferings connected with it rendered it hateful in their remembrance, so that the Canadian voyageurs always spoke of it as "La maudite riviere enragee" - the accursed mad river - thus coupling a malediction with its name.
Monsieur is, as usual, led by his favorite; yesterday it was Choisy, to-day it is La Riviere, to-morrow it will be some one else.
 
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