Word: lancieux
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...last week in the Brittany villa at Lancieux, death at last stilled his rhythmic tongue at 84. He had missed by 16 years his youthful ambition to live to 100, had fallen short of his goal of 1,000 poems. But he had left behind him an ineffaceable imprint of his adventurer's appetite for the wild far places and the wild far things, in imperishable rhymed memorials to Claw-Fingered Kitty, Chewed-Ear Jenkins and Dangerous Dan McGrew...
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