Sentence examples for of the cols from inspiring English sources
The scam was discovered when an anonymous caller tipped off police in 2009 that one of the cols rouges had removed an oil-painting by Courbet called Seascape with Orange Sky six years previously.
Le Monde reported that one of the cols rouges told police: "I cannot give you a single name of a commissioner who didn't at one time or another steal in the exercise of his job … in fact, at the UCHV, theft was an institution.
Biography of the Col. and the motives for his activities.
1.46pm BST The descent of the Col de la Madeline is complete..
There's a brief flat across the top of the col before a long descent.
We began guessing the height of the col ahead and whether we'd break through 2,000m.
4.12pm: Andy Schleck drops Maxim Iglinskiy and ploughs a lone furrow up the final seven kilometres of the Col du Galibier.
As we neared the apex of the col, spindrift lashed at our faces and we hunched our shoulders for protection.
The lead group has just reached the foot of the Col de Marie Blanque and face a long hard climb.
Sky chased them hard, however, and they were reined in just before the foot of the Col d'Èze.
1.18pm: Six kilometres from the top of the Col d'Agnel, Nicolas Roche does a stint at the front of the breakaway group.
