mandrin

Mandrin declared a personal war against the tax collectors.

My grandfather, Ben Mandrin, is like him in some respects.

Brissaud was sentenced to death and Mandrin to the galleys.

Mandrin had only 17 mules left when he arrived, and they were in such a sorry state that the tax collectors refused to pay him.

A mandrin is a metal guide for flexible catheters.

That Ben Mandrin was a hard old man.

On the same day, Mandrin's brother Pierre was hanged for counterfeiting.

The horses, heads up, ears pointed, were looking off into the night, toward the direction in which Ben Mandrin had crawled.

Mandrin endured the torture without a cry.

In 2002, a Grenoble brewery named a walnut-flavored beer after Mandrin.

Sheet music of Mandrin's lament (free license)

His best known characters are Belphégor, Judex, Mandrin, and Vidocq.

A popular ballad arose, the Complainte de Mandrin, that was sung throughout France and is still known today.

Mandrin (in French)

Citron, the citrus variety, is the most popular Absolut flavor, he added, followed by Mandrin, the orange variety.

Old Ben Mandrin, whom I'd admired for his guts, suddenly began to look like a mighty mean, cantakerous, evil old man.

They had warehouses for weapons and stolen goods in Savoy, and Mandrin believed himself out of the reach from the French authorities.

It's also cheap; the summer salad, with mixed greens, feta cheese, mandrin oranges, red onions and sunflower seeds in a balsamic vinagrette, costs just $6.25.

Louis Mandrin was born at Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, Dauphiné, a border province, in 1725.

Mandrin reacted to the ban by going to Rodez and forcing Ferme Générale employees to buy his goods at gunpoint.

Five years later, on July 27, 1753, Mandrin and his friend Benoît Brissaud were involved in a brawl and their opponents were killed.

Mandrin joined a gang of smugglers operating in the Cantons of Switzerland, France, and Savoy, which was then a sovereign state.

I was thinking that old Ben Mandrin was no fool, and I knew that whatever he did, it was something he wished desperately to do.

When I walked into the dining room Old Ben Mandrin was already settin' up to table, and he looked at me just as perky as could be.

Old Ben Mandrin, supposedly moving only from his bed to a chair and back again, had the palms of his hands raked and lacerated like nothing you ever saw.