quail
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Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo, who won a second six-year term in 2020, has built kilometres of new bike lanes, banned old diesel cars, and made the Seine quais car-free.
From Reuters • Aug. 30, 2021
As the floodwaters poured down into the city, raising the river crest to nearly seven meters above normal, all of Paris' quais were engulfed.
From Time Magazine Archive
The glacial wind known as the bise whipping the beautiful lake into whitecaps all along the quais that fan out from the Mont Blanc Bridge.
From Time Magazine Archive
"No one," he wrote, "can be commonplace who has lived on the quais."
From Time Magazine Archive
Some one had put it in the American Women's Club list as a quaint restaurant on the Paris quais as yet untouched by Americans, so we had to wait forty-five minutes for a table.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
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