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  • But for now, here in Canada, La Fayette would rule Napoleon Bonaparte.†   (source)
  • The great imponderable was Napoleon Bonaparte.†   (source)
  • It was only the second man, Napoleon Bonaparte, who was worth talking to.†   (source)
  • Napoleon Bonaparte — the greatest soldier who ever lived!†   (source)
  • With the acquisition of Louisiana from Spain, Napoleon Bonaparte had begun planning a French empire in North America.†   (source)
  • It contained the order for Napoleon Bonaparte to be placed under immediate arrest, to be returned to Paris in irons to stand trial for treason, sedition, disloyalty, and malfeasance.†   (source)
  • IN EUROPE, French armies had been sweeping across Italy and Austria, in a campaign of French aggrandizement led by young General Napoleon Bonaparte, who appeared invincible.†   (source)
  • You are Napoleon Bonaparte and I'm your old friend, Oliver Cromwell.†   (source)
  • Think what Ford, Edison, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Julius Caesar would do.†   (source)
  • They didn't always agree with his political opinions—Roosevelt was the faultless descendant of Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Abraham Lincoln—but they felt he had a fine head and would have gone far in politics.†   (source)
  • You talk as if you thought you was Napoleon Bonaparte.†   (source)
  • The Institute had the academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members.†   (source)
  • He had told me stories about the catacombs and about Napoleon Bonaparte, and he had explained to me the meaning of the different ceremonies of the Mass and of the different vestments worn by the priest.†   (source)
  • The selfishness of the late Napoleon Bonaparte occasioned innumerable wars in Europe and caused him to perish, himself, in a miserable island—that of Saint Helena in the Atlantic Ocean.†   (source)
  • During his Egyptian campaign, your General Napoleon Bonaparte discovered traces of this old canal in the Suez desert, and when the tide caught him by surprise, he wellnigh perished just a few hours before rejoining his regiment at Hadjaroth, the very place where Moses had pitched camp 3,300 years before him.†   (source)
  • Life meanwhile——real life, with its essential interests of health and sickness, toil and rest, and its intellectual interests in thought, science, poetry, music, love, friendship, hatred, and passions——went on as usual, independently of and apart from political friendship or enmity with Napoleon Bonaparte and from all the schemes of reconstruction.†   (source)
  • Napoleon Bonaparte was despised by all as long as he was great, but now that he has become a wretched comedian the Emperor Francis wants to offer him his daughter in an illegal marriage.†   (source)
  • When the eagles of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Corsican upstart, were flying from Provence, where they had perched after a brief sojourn in Elba, and from steeple to steeple until they reached the towers of Notre Dame, I wonder whether the Imperial birds had any eye for a little corner of the parish of Bloomsbury, London, which you might have thought so quiet, that even the whirring and flapping of those mighty wings would pass unobserved there?†   (source)
  • Napoleon lost the battle of Waterloo.   (source)
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  • But he liked to rib me about where I was in the book, in a war part or in a peace part, and if there was anything in there about Napoleon's days as a hip-hop dancer.†   (source)
  • I saw the Pantheon, and Napoleon's tomb.†   (source)
  • But many of Napoleon's greatest battles lasted only a day and were never to be fought again….†   (source)
  • As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?'†   (source)
  • The coat of arms from the door of Napoleon's coronation carriage hung on the wall in the study.†   (source)
  • The Lord of the Dead resembled pictures I'd seen of Adolph Hitler, or Napoleon, or the terrorist leaders who direct suicide bombers.†   (source)
  • Maybe Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Napoleon.†   (source)
  • "The Colonel's doing his Napoleon walk."†   (source)
  • When I asked him about it, he said Napoleon was his hero.†   (source)
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  • Napoleon and Wellington.†   (source)
  • He did not think he was Napoleon.†   (source)
  • It was epic, with snow and sleet and hail and winds topping fifty miles an hour, making me think of Napoleon's troops on the retreat from Moscow.†   (source)
  • Napoleon?†   (source)
  • Why didn't Napoleon conquer Russia?†   (source)
  • Then he sped off toward the staging ground at Napoleon and St. Charles.†   (source)
  • They haven't exactly been discussing Napoleon's white horse in the back seat!†   (source)
  • The slaves' long and bloody revolt, which began in 1791 and which not even Napoleon and forty thousand troops could put down.†   (source)
  • Kutuzov defeated Napoleon precisely because he was not swayed by the ephemeral and superficial values of the court, andmade his decisions on a visceral understanding of his men and his people.†   (source)
  • This man is a Napoleon, a Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun.†   (source)
  • What is the world, O soldiers?
    It is I.
    I, this incessant snow,
    This northern sky;
    Soldiers, this solitude
    Through which we go
    Is I.
    Walter de la Mare, Napoleon
    When the punt floated down the river in the rain, part of General Woundwort's authority went with it.†   (source)
  • I seen one marching out of there like Napoleon yesterday.†   (source)
  • He's played Mussolini, Napoleon, Pontius Pilate, and Al Capone.†   (source)
  • (which he said was a typical gringo way of looking at that endeavor), and "Able was I ere I saw Elba," which was what Napoleon supposedly said when he was sent into exile.†   (source)
  • Napoleon gazed westward from its lid, identifiable by his cocked hat and gold epaulettes.†   (source)
  • (reading from the history textbook)"Napoleon and the principle of equality."†   (source)
  • He winced, hand tucked in the pocket of that hideous hoodie like he was doing a Napoleon impression, pressing on the bullet wound that Ringer had given him.†   (source)
  • In 1812, Napoleon had marched his men fifteen hundred miles to Moscow; in the thirteenth century, Genghis Khan advanced four thousand miles from Mongolia to the shores of the Mediterranean.†   (source)
  • Unlike my old high school (South Intermediate High School in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma—which is a totally boring suburb of Tulsa) there were no Napoleon Complex, overly tanned vice principals with nothing better to do than to prowl the halls harassing kids.†   (source)
  • The last of the quartet is Grandpa Nakane with his droopy mustache, his high-collared shirt, and his hand, like Napoleon's, in his vest.†   (source)
  • Somewhere along the Avenue Napoleon, I heard the step behind me which I knew to be Armand's.†   (source)
  • Esteban Trueba lost patience and returned to his country prepared to ignore the problem of his height, since all great politicians in history had been small, from Napoleon to Hitler.†   (source)
  • There was a description of the execution of Queen Mary Stuart, and you could see Napoleon's signature.†   (source)
  • You can tell me how Napoleon won his wars?†   (source)
  • We have here an extraordinary tactician, a Napoleon of strategy and personal responsibility.†   (source)
  • That the likes of Napoleon came to bad ends was among the lessons of history.†   (source)
  • "You know when people are crazy they think they're somebody important--like Napoleon or something.†   (source)
  • Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler-none of them exists.†   (source)
  • You may have the worst timing since Napoleon decided the dead of winter was the right moment to invade Russia.†   (source)
  • Napoleon once hung her on his bedroom wall, gazing upon her each morning.†   (source)
  • He said there wasn't hardly any young'uns atall my age that knew about Mr. Macbeth or Mr. Napoleon, or that studied dictionaries.†   (source)
  • I was born the very year Napoleon marched into my country—born into war and that is how I shall go.†   (source)
  • In my full dress, I looked like one of Napoleon's grenadiers, even though I felt like the king of the penguins.†   (source)
  • Servants help Marie Antoinette and Sir Walter Raleigh, Napoleon and Queen Elizabeth from their coaches.†   (source)
  • But I think Napoleon said it better.†   (source)
  • When I was a child, my father told me the story of a troop in Napoleon's army in Russia.†   (source)
  • Napoleon knew a thing or two, what?†   (source)
  • Threatened pride on top of Napoleon's complex was like gasoline on a campfire.†   (source)
  • "No," said Prof, "aside from finding an actor of requisite character—one who would not decide to be Napoleon—we can't wait.†   (source)
  • "You seriously have a Napoleon complex, don't you?†   (source)
  • My loutish inability to play Napoleon exasperated him so much that he refused to have anything to do with me except under the most formal circumstances.†   (source)
  • Ask Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Caesar had done it, Xerxes, Napoleon, and Hitler failed.†   (source)
  • I had dawdled too long and it was getting cold and I had visions of Napoleon at Moscow and the Germans at Stalingrad.†   (source)
  • Napoleon had once made a remark about it.†   (source)
  • Napoleon made them!†   (source)
  • The lesson was about Napoleon's Egyptian campaign.†   (source)
  • You just want to believe no one but an Irish Catholic general could beat Napoleon.†   (source)
  • But Bob Taft, speaking in cold, clipped matter-of-fact tones, deplored that sentence, and suggested that involuntary exile—similar to that imposed upon Napoleon—might be wiser.†   (source)
  • It was discovered by Napoleon's army in 1799 and—"†   (source)
  • "Your smell is not very strong," adds Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Herod's troops patrol a thousand streets; just next door, Napoleon makes off with the silverware.†   (source)
  • I press my ear against the drawing of him in the Napoleon hat, trying to hear inside his room.†   (source)
  • "With those other skins, like you," says Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young.†   (source)
  • They decided to check on Nasser's house along the way, so they went up Fontainebleau to Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Napoleon marched his army under the shadow of the pyramids.†   (source)
  • Napoleon, Marie Antoinette, and a lot of kings named Louis.†   (source)
  • He paddled to the intersection of Napoleon and St. Charles, his shoulders aching.†   (source)
  • Taped to his door is a sketch of him wearing Napoleon's hat.†   (source)
  • At the time of Katrina, he was living in a five-thousand-square-foot house on Napoleon.†   (source)
  • On September 6, Gonzales was at the Napoleon–St. Charles staging ground.†   (source)
  • Or when he asks over and over even after you say white, "What color was Napoleon's white horse?†   (source)
  • Suddenly Napoleon let his voice become soft, loving, persuasive.†   (source)
  • After concluding peace with Britain in 1802, Napoleon used a brief period of calm to institute…†   (source)
  • La Fayette already knew Napoleon better than Napoleon knew himself.†   (source)
  • He thought: tactics are old Napoleon and a lot of chivalry.†   (source)
  • Did you go to the history books and read about Napoleon?†   (source)
  • No, I don't know that I ever studied Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Perhaps the boy was too strong for Napoleon to charm him.†   (source)
  • Fremantle was not that impressed by Napoleon.†   (source)
  • But Gilbert knew that Napoleon's trust in Ta-Kumsaw was justified.†   (source)
  • They discussed the strategy of Napoleon, the theories of Jomini, the women of Richmond.†   (source)
  • Napoleon once said, 'The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.'†   (source)
  • Above all, Napoleon would become the most loved and trusted figure in the military.†   (source)
  • "It's good that you do, since all you have in public is idiocy," said Napoleon.†   (source)
  • "I should hope that the justice of my arguments would move you," said Napoleon.†   (source)
  • "I heard you were at Lake Mizogan," said Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Through all this Napoleon listened with satisfaction, yes, but also sadness.†   (source)
  • Without gunpowder, without Napoleon, the sure victory had become a chancy thing at best.†   (source)
  • Gilbert reread the key paragraph of Napoleon's letter.†   (source)
  • Napoleon looked with vague interest at the White boy Alvin, but said nothing to him.†   (source)
  • Napoleon laughed when Ta-Kumsaw translated the boy's words.†   (source)
  • Ta-Kumsaw didn't translate what the boy said, even though Napoleon insisted.†   (source)
  • Ta-Kumsaw didn't need to translate--the boy understood from Napoleon's tone and expression.†   (source)
  • What will de Maurepas do when Napoleon has no power over him?†   (source)
  • Everything was working as Napoleon said it would.†   (source)
  • Gilbert had written it long ago, almost as soon as Napoleon arrived in Canada.†   (source)
  • "I suppose none for the boy," said Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Ah, Napoleon, I have yearned for such a man as you through all my years of planning for democracy.†   (source)
  • He had found such a one--truly he had--in Gilbert, the only real friend Napoleon would ever have.†   (source)
  • When Ta-Kumsaw tried to see Napoleon, they laughed at him.†   (source)
  • The second letter was from Napoleon himself to Gilbert.†   (source)
  • "Napoleon," he said, "my dear friend, that is the nature of our supposed enemy in this war.†   (source)
  • Napoleon did not wear irons on his way back to France.†   (source)
  • "Napoleon read our dispatches," La Fayette said cheerfully.†   (source)
  • Napoleon laughed, and Ta-Kumsaw laughed with him.†   (source)
  • If only Napoleon were only a vain posturer with a gift for seducing the loyalty of his betters.†   (source)
  • He is not a lover of beasts, like little Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Napoleon's vanity was insufferable, but primarily because it was so fully justified.†   (source)
  • That was what Napoleon did to White men, and it was dangerous, dangerous and evil and dark.†   (source)
  • Obviously, Freddie had been won over by Napoleon.†   (source)
  • It bothered him sometimes that Napoleon was letting the savages fight from behind trees.†   (source)
  • Gilbert knew that Napoleon's plan would succeed.†   (source)
  • Santi was a behemoth in the art world, and being known solely by one's first name was a level of fame achieved only by an elite few …. people like Napoleon, Galileo, and Jesus …. and, of course, the demigods Langdon now heard blaring from Harvard dormitories-Sting, Madonna, Jewel, and the artist formerly known as Prince, who had changed his name to the symbol , causing Langdon to dub him "The Tau Cross With Intersecting Hermaphroditic Ankh.†   (source)
  • Beside this is a matching engraving of James McDermott, shown in the overblown collar of those days, with his hair in a forward-swept arrangement reminiscent of Napoleon's, and meant to suggest tempestuousness.†   (source)
  • Then he presented himself to Sofia as General Mack had presented himself to Napoleon, having let the Russian army slip through his grasp.†   (source)
  • Dead ahead, at the end of Champs-Elysées, stood the Arc de Triomphe—Napoleon's 164-foot-tall tribute to his own military potency—encircled by France's largest rotary, a nine-lane behemoth.†   (source)
  • Anthony Burgess has a novel about the Russian winter defeating the French emperor, Napoleon Symphony (1974), in which he brings to life, better than anyone, that geography and that weather: the vastness of it, the emptiness, the hostility to the invading (and then, retreating) troops, the total absence of any possibility of comfort or safety or solace.†   (source)
  • Neither have we been discussing Napoleon's white horse in the front seat," Dede reminded him, pushing him gently away.†   (source)
  • Palm trees were imported from the Holy Land, a weeping willow from Napoleon's tomb on Saint Helena, and statues from the ruins of Pompeii.†   (source)
  • We walked into that chow hall like Napoleon's army on the retreat from Moscow, wet, bedraggled, exhausted, out of breath, too hungry to eat, too battered to care.†   (source)
  • Napoleon was in exile on the island of St. Helena, standing on a cliff with his hand inside his coat.†   (source)
  • We need a Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Erected in 1814 in honor of Napoleon's defeat, the church's campanile was rivaled only by that of the Ivan the Great tower in the Kremlin.†   (source)
  • In my mind, I knew what every active combat soldier knows, that Napoleon's army advanced on Moscow at one mile every fifteen minutes, with full packs and muskets.†   (source)
  • Symbologists often remarked that France—a country renowned for machismo, womanizing, and diminutive insecure leaders like Napoleon and Pepin the Short—could not have chosen a more apt national emblem than a thousand-foot phallus.†   (source)
  • The Pleiades were all abuzz over the advent of their visiting star, Miss Frances Homer, the celebrated monologuist, who, at Eaton Auditorium, again presented her Women of Destiny series, in which she portrays women of history and the influence they brought to bear upon the lives of such momentous world figures as Napoleon, Ferdinand of Spain, Horatio Nelson and Shakespeare.†   (source)
  • It certainly didn't hurt that the average temperature fell to minus 2,0°—a climate as alien to the Wehrmacht as it had been to the forces of Napoleon.†   (source)
  • While for Napoleon on Elba, strolling among chickens, fending off flies, and sidestepping puddles of mud, it was visions of a triumphal return to Paris that galvanized his will to persevere.†   (source)
  • His hair is completely disheveled, and he's wearing his Napoleon shirt, which is more wrinkled than ever.†   (source)
  • They sped down Claiborne and then Napoleon, until the water grew shallow at the intersection of Napoleon and St. Charles.†   (source)
  • He's wearing the same clothing as yesterday, jeans and a ratty T-shirt with Napoleon's silhouette on it.†   (source)
  • "Can you imagine the expression on Napoleon's face when he was roused at two in the morning and stepped from his brand-new bedroom in the Kremlin only to find that the city he'd claimed just hours before had been set on fire by its citizens?"†   (source)
  • Napoleon would have been the first to admit that after assembling an intrepid corps of commanders and fifteen divisions, after assessing the enemy's weaknesses, studying his terrain, and carefully formulating a plan of attack, one must finally contend with temperature.†   (source)
  • He could head up to Napoleon and St. Charles and ask the officers and aid workers there how he could get out.†   (source)
  • Though for all the Count knew, the cannons that had been salvaged from Napoleon's retreat to make the Ascension's bells had been forged by the French from the bells at La Rochelle; which in turn had been forged from British blunderbusses seized in the Thirty Years' War.†   (source)
  • Nasser's house was at the corner of Napoleon and Galvez, and he wanted to see if anything could be salvaged.†   (source)
  • They saw no civilians, no hospital or humanitarian-aid workers, as had been common in areas like the Napoleon–St. Charles staging ground.†   (source)
  • Ah, Napoleon, perhaps you would never have prevailed in your quest for Mother Russia; but ten degrees warmer and at least you might have reached home with half your forces intact, instead of losing another three hundred thousand men between the gates of Moscow and the banks of the Neman River.†   (source)
  • He raced to the Napoleon–St. Charles staging ground and gathered a crew of police and military personnel.†   (source)
  • This, one might be inclined to observe, is exactly how Napoleon must have appeared when in the hour before dawn he walked among his ranks, reviewing everything from the stores of munitions to the dress of the infantry—having learned from experience that victory on the field of battle begins with the shine on a boot.†   (source)
  • Having dedicated the first several years to a study of the French (covering their idioms and forms of address, the personalities of Napoleon, Richelieu, and Talleyrand, the essence of the Enlightenment, the genius of Impressionism, and their prevailing aptitude for je ne sail quoi), the Count and Osip spent the next few years studying the British (covering the necessity of tea, the implausible rules of cricket, the etiquette of foxhunting, their relentless if well-deserved pride in…†   (source)
  • Who had that man been, at Napoleon and St. Charles, who had said he would send help to the Williams couple?†   (source)
  • Did the soldier really mean that Zeitoun should paddle all the way to the intersection of Napoleon and St. Charles when the soldier could simply call another unit on his walkie-talkie?†   (source)
  • The young men had seen a temporary medical staging ground set up at the intersection of Napoleon and St. Charles, and they agreed that they would deliver the passengers there.†   (source)
  • He expected that there might be people on Carrollton—like Napoleon and St. Charles, it seemed a logical thoroughfare for rescue or military boats—but when he got close, he saw no official personnel at all.†   (source)
  • Napoleon beret.†   (source)
  • Napoleon had coup d'oeil.†   (source)
  • You met Napoleon?†   (source)
  • Alessandro told them that Napoleon was a native speaker of Italian and had never mastered French, and this pleased them tremendously, because they had heard of Napoleon and were eager to claim him.†   (source)
  • He'd heard the snickered references to Napoleon—SNL and other comedy shows had used it as a stock joke for Years—but be was still surprised.†   (source)
  • On April i 1, after further defeat on the battlefield, Napoleon abdicated his throne and went into exile on the island of Elba.†   (source)
  • At the outset of assemblies, Dr. Wellington would walk onstage and say, in his deep bass voice, "I am the descendantof the great Duke of Wellington, aristocrat, statesman, and general, who crushed the Frenchman Napoleon at Waterloo and thereby saved civilization for Europe—and for you, the natives."†   (source)
  • Napoleon hat.†   (source)
  • Two centuries ago, Napoleon wrote that "a general never knows anything with certainty, never sees his enemy clearly, and never knows positively where he is."†   (source)
  • With the help of Snuffy, he canvases Sesame Street for suggestions — Zackledackle, Butch, Bill, Omar, Larry, Sammy, Ebenezcr, Jim, Napoleon, Lancelot, Rocky — before settling on Roy.†   (source)
  • It was Napoleon's complex, Hitler's fever, little man's disease, and there was an epidemic that year, some of the guys standing eight inches taller than they had the year before, shadows of beards and deep voices, and others like Todd Bridger and his sidekick from Greensboro, little and hairless and taking it out on the world.†   (source)
  • "In 1816, Napoleon's carriage was on display, and later, the wonders of the tomb of Seti the First were shown."†   (source)
  • I spoke French, read French, remembered waiting for the reports of the Revolution and reading the Paris newspaper accounts of Napoleon's victories.†   (source)
  • "I met Napoleon once," said Magnus.†   (source)
  • Napoleon regarded all people as equal before the law and wanted them to have equal opportunities for advancement.†   (source)
  • It's called Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Napoleon had coup d'oeil.†   (source)
  • Strange how I wandered out of the cafe then, circling the ruined theater, wandering finally towards the broad Avenue Napoleon and following it towards the palace of the Louvre.†   (source)
  • And more followed through the summer, recounting the ups and downs of Napoleon and the changing moods of Paris.†   (source)
  • But Paris, Paris was a universe whole and entire unto herself, hollowed and fashioned by history; so she seemed in this age of Napoleon III with her towering buildings, her massive cathedrals, her grand boulevards and ancient winding medieval streets-as vast and indestructible as nature itself.†   (source)
  • BY THE TIME Jefferson's second term was under way, Bonaparte had crowned himself the Emperor Napoleon and with his victorious armies had become master of Europe.†   (source)
  • In a time of tumultuous history unfolding, as war raged at home and abroad and Napoleon's armies suffered continuing defeat, little escaped Adams's attention or a goodly measure of his opinion.†   (source)
  • Five days later Napoleon and his Grande Armee invaded Russia, which, with John Quincy and his family in St. Petersburg, was to the Adamses a matter of extreme interest.†   (source)
  • He hobbled along painfully, sleepily, detouring around the front of a Napoleon, didn't notice it until he opened his eyes and looked straight into the black maw, the hole of the barrel, and he blinked and came awake, momentarily, remembering Shakespeare's line: "the bubble reputation in the cannon's mouth."†   (source)
  • Then, on March 1, 1815, Napoleon escaped from Elba, landed at Cannes, and with 1,500 men marched on Paris, thus beginning the fateful "100 days" that ended with Napoleon's ultimate defeat at Waterloo on June 18.†   (source)
  • John Quincy wrote from St. Petersburg that on the day his child had died, Moscow was in flames set by its inhabitants as the city was surrendered to Napoleon, and that within less than three months Napoleon's disastrous retreat had begun —" the invader himself was a wretched fugitive and his numberless host was perishing by frosts, famine, and sword.†   (source)
  • Napoleon was angry, but he laughed.†   (source)
  • At the last moment, they would find themselves in combat with the French army, disciplined, well-armed, and fanatically loyal to Napoleon.†   (source)
  • The men on deck bustled and hurried and made ten thousand clumbing noises, for they were heaving in to land; Napoleon was home in France at last.†   (source)
  • Even if Napoleon was right, and Charlie was inclined to be indulgent, the courtiers would never let such an opportunity pass.†   (source)
  • There would be such a howl for Napoleon's head that even King Charles could not resist cashiering the boy.†   (source)
  • If only I, too, could have been deceived by Napoleon, and rejoiced as he made his inevitable way into history.†   (source)
  • Napoleon had obviously longed for someone to admire him sincerely, without Napoleon diddling with his affections.†   (source)
  • The amulet would not be sent yet--only at the cusp of events would Napoleon suddenly lose his influence over Freddie.†   (source)
  • Almost as quickly as Napoleon's original letter reached the King, Robespierre would have this ciphered letter in his hands.†   (source)
  • Napoleon learned long ago that his tricks worked on White men, but not half so well on Reds, and on Ta-Kumsaw not at all.†   (source)
  • Napoleon ran his fingers through his hair and smiled, almost boyish now; he could pass from menacing to friendly to adorable in moments.†   (source)
  • Napoleon shook hands with him, amused.†   (source)
  • I hope that's clear, my dear Napoleon.†   (source)
  • Every word in this letter was true, if rash; but Gilbert had carefully cultivated this candor in Napoleon.†   (source)
  • But Napoleon was exactly what he seduced Freddie and Charlie into thinking he was: a brilliant general.†   (source)
  • Napoleon was sure it would work out.†   (source)
  • Napoleon had come to realize that while Gilbert de La Fayette was immune to his intoxicating charm, he was a sincere admirer and, indeed, a friend.†   (source)
  • For King Charles was also under Napoleon's spell, and he would read praise of the little Corsican with agreement, with joy.†   (source)
  • " "Weak," said Napoleon again.†   (source)
  • Gilbert carefully folded Napoleon's letter and enclosed it in his own, a simple note that said: Your Majesty, please do not be harsh with this gifted young man.†   (source)
  • But the fact is, my dear Napoleon, we already have soldiers, too, who do nothing but sit in garrison at Fort Detroit and Fort Chicago, paying for scalps with bourbon.†   (source)
  • " Napoleon's forehead wrinkled.†   (source)
  • Napoleon smiled, sipped his wine.†   (source)
  • Napoleon leaned across his desk.†   (source)
  • For if I thought it would do my beloved France even an ounce of good, I would help Napoleon win his victory over the Americans, even if it meant crippling the cause of liberty in this new land.†   (source)
  • But hidden within it was the entire text of both Napoleon's and Frederic's letters, to be published to withering effect as soon as the news of French defeat reached Paris.†   (source)
  • Besides pelts," said Napoleon.†   (source)
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  • TWENTY-ONE Napoleon?   (source)
    napoleon = another person with that name
  • And Roy knew he'd never see Napoleon Bridger again, unless he wanted to be seen.   (source)
  • Are you friends with Napoleon Bridger Leep?   (source)
  • Beatrice's stepbrother was identified as Napoleon Bridger Leep.   (source)
  • Napoleon Bridger, is that you?   (source)
  • Napoleon Bridger.   (source)
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