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  • It was the one constant that told you—even in the staterooms and dining chambers and smoking lounge, despite the lavish efforts to make these rooms look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far into the bluest reaches of the ocean.†   (source)
  • To call the place an anthill would be like calling Versailles Palace a single-family home.†   (source)
  • Some were gentlemen who felt strongly, like his lordship himself, that fair play had not been done at Versailles and that it was immoral to go on punishing a nation for a war that was now over.†   (source)
  • I'm sure you have heard of the French aristocracy and the Court of Versailles.†   (source)
  • The year of my birth marked the end of the Great War; the outbreak of an influenza epidemic that killed millions throughout the world; and the visit of a delegation of the African National Congress to the Versailles peace conference to voice the grievances of the African people of South Africa.†   (source)
  • Soon Caroline was driving down the main street of Versailles, charmed by the brick shopfronts, searching for signs that would mark her way home.†   (source)
  • He wanted the splendor to be visible from the street, and so he designed a French garden with topiaries fit for Versailles, deep wells of flowers, a smooth and perfect lawn, jets of water, and several statues of the gods of Olympus and perhaps one or two courageous Indians from the history of the Americas, naked and crowned with feathers, his one concession to patriotism.†   (source)
  • Fashion, art, architecture-ah, Versailles!†   (source)
  • The one tribute he received was a letter from Versailles, a letter Adams treasured.†   (source)
  • It reminds Lourdes of a photograph she saw once of the famous Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles with its endless ricocheting light.†   (source)
  • When I was called down to the guidance office at the end of last period, I took my sweet time getting there so I could admire the decorations that made the music hall look like the palace of Versailles.†   (source)
  • Richter and the rest merely craned their necks and stared about a hall whose frescoed ceiling and gilded walls rivaled Versailles'.†   (source)
  • I think he saw me as a traitor to Versailles.†   (source)
  • But the letter to the King must be sent now, if there was to be time for it to reach Versailles, and the inevitable response to return to Canada before the springtime battle with the Americans.†   (source)
  • They visited the, Rodin Museum, sat through afternoon mass at Notre-Dame, took a bus out to Versailles.†   (source)
  • The legacy of Versailles!†   (source)
  • As a mob chased her, Marie-Antoinette escaped Versailles through a secret passage.
  • After the revolution, Versailles was used as a repository for state-owned art treasures.
  • The estate fondly had become known as la Petite Versailles.†   (source)
  • Others started to get into it as we caravaned past the Villas at Versailles.†   (source)
  • There's a religious historian I know who lives near Versailles.†   (source)
  • Never had he been treated with such respect at Versailles, and he was pleased beyond measure.†   (source)
  • To the right loomed the Palace of the Tribunal, the lush papal residence rivaled only by Versailles in its baroque embellishment.†   (source)
  • She probably would not have read this treatise on the hydraulics of Versailles by an eighteenth-century Dane who extolled in Latin the genius of Le Notre.†   (source)
  • Well, of course the reason for that is that my mom's parents are like total farmers who live in a place called Versailles, Indiana, only they pronounce it "Ver-sales.†   (source)
  • However, Mr Lewis' engagingly informal manner, and his statement at dinner that the United States "would always stand on the side of justice and didn't mind admitting mistakes had been made at Versailles" seemed to do much to win the confidence of his lordship's 'home team'; as dinner progressed, the conversation had slowly but surely turned from topics such as the merits of Mr Lewis' native Pennsylvania back to the conference ahead, and by the time the gentlemen were lighting their…†   (source)
  • And one is here, in a field west of Versailles, inside the tool case of Daniel LeBlanc, principal locksmith for the Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle.†   (source)
  • For example, it was women who led the demonstrations that forced the king away from his palace at Versailles.†   (source)
  • I'm sure that's why we live here instead of in the Estates at East Hampton, or the Manors of Coventry, or the Villas at Versailles.†   (source)
  • The Sprawling 185-acre estate of Château Villette was located twenty-five minutes northwest of Paris in the environs of Versailles.†   (source)
  • While he was gone, the Estates at East Hampton, and the Villas at Versailles, and Lake Windsor Downs, and the middle school–high school complex all went up—unsurveyed, unsupervised, and unsafe.†   (source)
  • Somewhere near Versailles.†   (source)
  • …thought, and, awkwardly, letting his hands circle her belly and down, nose in her hair, he made amends and promises: Paris was still possible, Cacciato was too slippery to be caught, don't worry; insane promises strung on a ribbon winding toward Paris, where he'd buy her those pretty windowed things, take her to lunch at sunny cafes, stroll with her through the Tuileries, take a cab to Versailles, to Nice, to Marseilles to watch poppy products going to sea on sailing ships, all this.†   (source)
  • Irritation and disturbance vanished with her words, replaced by an obsequiousness not seen since the court of Versailles.†   (source)
  • Pieces of furniture, trampled on by Alba, who used them to build her houses and trenches, turned into corpses with exposed springs, and the huge tapestry in the drawing room lost the dauntless beauty of its bucolic Versailles setting to become the dart board of Nicolas and his niece.†   (source)
  • She'd been saving money for years, imagining herself in a house or on an adventure, and now here she was: a baby in her bedroom and a stranger at her table and her car stranded in Versailles.†   (source)
  • All his energy, zeal, stubborn determination, and hisidealism, qualities that had seemed ill-suited at Versailles, were now to be brought to bear.†   (source)
  • Say the rendezvous has been set for one-thirty on the road between Chevreuse and Rambouillet, seven miles south of Versailles at the Cimetiere de Noblesse.†   (source)
  • Strachey departed for London, taking the proposed articles for approval, and in the lull, Adams made his first visit to Versailles since his return to Paris.†   (source)
  • A few days later, however, Adams was summoned to Versailles for a discussion of the issue, during which he candidly voiced his approval of what Congress had done.†   (source)
  • Apparently he saw no contradiction with his own "suitoring" at the Court of Versailles, or the irony that he, of all people, would preach the preservation of a "virgin character."†   (source)
  • Accompanied by both Franklin and Lee, Adams arrived at Versailles in all-new French clothes, his wig dressed, and wearing a dress sword, as required at the palace.†   (source)
  • With its elaborate frescoed ceiling and tall French doors overlooking a small lake and fountain, it could have been a chamber at Versailles, and as the ceremony proceeded ever so slowly, Adams had ample time to look about.†   (source)
  • What appears to have pleased Adams no less was the discovery during his parting call at Versailles that his French had so improved he could manage an extended conversation and speak as rapidly as he pleased.†   (source)
  • He traveled the road to Versailles in a state of extreme apprehension, wondering, as he later wrote, whether he was to "hear an expostulation? a reproof? an admonition? or in plain vulgar English, a scolding? or was there any disposition to forget and forgive? and say all malice depart?†   (source)
  • Franklin lived in the gracious splendor of a garden pavilion, part of the magnificent Hotel de Valentinois, a columned château on the heights of the village of Passy, overlooking the Seine, half an hour's ride from the city on the road to Versailles.†   (source)
  • At Versailles, meanwhile, the Comte de Vergennes was writing to his ambassador at Philadelphia to say that Adams, in his role in the Netherlands, had become an embarrassment, an observation that La Luzerne was expected to pass along to his numerous friends in Congress.†   (source)
  • They carried on correspondence, drew up reports, and, as obliged, appeared each Tuesday at the King's levee at Versailles, where afterward they dined with the Comte de Vergennes and the rest of the diplomatic corps.†   (source)
  • And of supreme importance was the King's Foreign Minister, Charles Gravier, Comte de Vergennes, the most polished of all, a fleshy, majestic career diplomat who, during Adams's initial courtesy call at Versailles, expressed dismay that Adams understood nothing he said, but politely remarked that he hoped Adams would remain long enough in France to learn French perfectly.†   (source)
  • Both—Alexander Pope's garden beside the Thames at Twickenham and Woburn Farm—were prime examples of the "modern," or "new-style" English landscape gardening that was so radically different from the highly symmetrical gardens made fashionable by the French, and particularly by the work of Andre LaNotre at Versailles in the time of Louis XIV.†   (source)
  • At Versailles, in parting conversation with the Comte de Vergennes,Adams listened as Vergennes grandly told him that it was, of course, a step down to go from the Court of France to any other court, even if a "great thing to be the first ambassador from your country to the country you sprang from !"†   (source)
  • At Versailles the day after, accompanied by Franklin and Francis Dana, Adams "had the honor to wait on" the aged Prime Minister of France, Jean-Frederic Phelypeaux de Maurepas, who was as old nearly as the century, older even than Franklin; as well as the Minister of Marine, Gabriel Sartine; and the all-important Foreign Minister, the Comte de Vergennes.†   (source)
  • Or Auteuil or Versailles?†   (source)
  • The filmy mound of silken underpants, looking freshly cleaned, rested on the surface of a marble-top commode inlaid with colored wood and ornamented in strips and scrolls of bronze; a huge and hulking thing, it would have grossly obtruded at Versailles, where in fact it may have been stolen from.†   (source)
  • We need not overemphasize imperfections in the peace of Versailles.†   (source)
  • We had dined at l'Avenue's and afterward went to the Caf? de Versailles for coffee.†   (source)
  • I was a minister at the time of the Versailles Treaty and a close friend of Mr. Lloyd-George, who was the head of the British delegation at Versailles.†   (source)
  • He had time to note a genuine Roman statue in a corner, sepia photographs of the Parthenon, of Rheims Cathedral, of Versailles and of the Frink National Bank Building with the eternal torch.†   (source)
  • I was a high minister at the time of the Versailles Treaty and a close friend of Mr. Lloyd-George, who was the head of the British delegation at Versailles.†   (source)
  • As a youth he had accompanied embassies to Versailles and Rome; he had fought in the wars in Austria; he had been in Jerusalem.†   (source)
  • At Versailles or in Paris the Sun King had one nobleman to hand him his stockings, another his shirt, in his morning levee.†   (source)
  • Extremely young, her face was made up to some thickness of gold tone, lips drawn to a forward point by thick rouge; her lashes and brows seemed to have gold dust sprinkled and rubbed into them; her hair, golden, appeared added to, like the hair of Versailles; her combs were gold, her glasses gold-trimmed, and she wore golden jewelry.†   (source)
  • Archer did not accompany his son to Versailles.†   (source)
  • Round the walls ran select views of Pompeii, Venice, Lake Como, and Versailles.†   (source)
  • I've got to rush out to Versailles afterward."†   (source)
  • Versailles, Poincot, book-seller; and Paris, Pissot, bookseller, Quai des Augustins.†   (source)
  • "And Versailles—the King's Gallery is some such gorgeous room, is it not?"†   (source)
  • He wanted very much to see Versailles again; he was very fond of the ancient regime.†   (source)
  • She would say: "Oh, I know all about Versailles; I went there with Mr. Bantling.†   (source)
  • I concluded that he was going to Versailles, and I was not deceived.†   (source)
  • Her heart and the grand waterworks of Versailles.†   (source)
  • Oh yes; you can't tell me anything about Versailles."†   (source)
  • …occupations of her daily life, her morning toilet, her luncheon, her afternoon nap, assume, by virtue of their despotic singularity, something of the interest that was to be found in what Saint-Simon used to call the 'machinery' of life at Versailles; and was able, too, to persuade herself that her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on her features, would provide Francoise with matter for a mental commentary as tense with passion and terror, as did the silence, the good…†   (source)
  • At Gravier's where they ate, and in the evening at the Versailles or at the Closerie des Lilas Clutton was inclined to taciturnity.†   (source)
  • The mob may sack Versailles; the Trianon may fall, but surely the minuet—the minuet itself is dancing itself away into the furthest stars, even as our minuet of the Hessian bathing places must be stepping itself still.†   (source)
  • The living-room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.†   (source)
  • They were staying at the modest Eden Hotel, because Zenith business men always stayed at the Eden, but they had dinner in the brocade and crystal Versailles Room of the Regency Hotel.†   (source)
  • The only time she could remember ever having been alone like this was once when she had missed her maid and her train at a place outside of Versailles—an adventure that had been a novel and delightful break in the prescribed routine of her much-chaperoned life.†   (source)
  • Up in Stockholm Peterson had failed as a small manufacturer of shoe polish and now possessed only his formula and sufficient trade tools to fill a small box; however, his new protector had promised in the early hours to set him up in business in Versailles.†   (source)
  • There were cafes all round, and by chance, thirsty and eager to get a nearer sight of the crowd, Philip installed himself at a little table outside the Cafe de Versailles.†   (source)
  • When he had gone half way he turned around and stared at the scene — his wife and Catherine scolding and consoling as they stumbled here and there among the crowded furniture with articles of aid, and the despairing figure on the couch, bleeding fluently, and trying to spread a copy of "Town Tattle." over the tapestry scenes of Versailles.†   (source)
  • her silence, a shade of good humour or of arrogance on her features, would provide Francoise with matter for a mental commentary as tense with passion and terror, as did the silence, the good humour or the arrogance of the King when a courtier, or even his greatest nobles, had presented a petition to him, at the turning of an avenue, at Versailles.†   (source)
  • He had talked to her about Cronshaw, she would see him; and there was Lawson, he had gone to Paris for a couple of months; and they would go to the Bal Bullier; there were excursions; they would make trips to Versailles, Chartres, Fontainebleau.†   (source)
  • Dallas, unconscious of what was going on in his father's mind, was talking excitedly and abundantly of Versailles.†   (source)
  • And as he had decided that the importance which Odette attached to receiving cards tot a private view was not in itself any more ridiculous than the pleasure which he himself had at one time felt in going to luncheon with the Prince of Wales, so he did not think that the admiration which she professed for Monte-Carlo or for the Righi was any more unreasonable than his own liking for Holland (which she imagined as ugly) and for Versailles (which bored her to tears).†   (source)
  • …novel or a painting in which were depicted the amusements of a leisured class; just as, at home, he used to enjoy the thought of the smooth efficiency of his household, the smartness of his own wardrobe and of his servants' liveries, the soundness of his investments, with the same relish as when he read in Saint-Simon, who was one of his favourite authors, of the machinery of daily life at Versailles, what Mme. de Maintenon ate and drank, or the shrewd avarice and great pomp of Lulli.†   (source)
  • Go and gaze upon all the paintings of Europe, and where will you find such a gallery of living and breathing commotion on canvas, as in that triumphal hall at Versailles; where the beholder fights his way, pell-mell, through the consecutive great battles of France; where every sword seems a flash of the Northern Lights, and the successive armed kings and Emperors dash by, like a charge of crowned centaurs?†   (source)
  • Therefore, when Sunday came, the mender of roads was not enchanted (though he said he was) to find that madame was to accompany monsieur and himself to Versailles.†   (source)
  • In their soft glances, I see what men strove to realize in some Versailles,[482] or Paphos,[483] or Ctesiphon.†   (source)
  • Put it even that they are like the fishwives who helped to bring back to Paris from Versailles, on that most ominous day of the first half of the French Revolution, the carriage of the royal family.†   (source)
  • As I had nothing more to do at Versailles, I went to Auteuil, and gained all the information I could.†   (source)
  • The gardens were arranged to emulate those of Versailles, and amidst the terraces and groves there are some huge allegorical waterworks still, which spout and froth stupendously upon fete-days, and frighten one with their enormous aquatic insurrections.†   (source)
  • They didn't agree about that, but that was what she liked Versailles for, that you could see the ancient regime had been swept away.†   (source)
  • She still appeared in her Marquise costume and danced a minuet with Monsieur de Truffigny, Monsieur Le Duc de la Jabotiere's attache; and the Duke, who had all the traditions of the ancient court, pronounced that Madame Crawley was worthy to have been a pupil of Vestris, or to have figured at Versailles.†   (source)
  • I was taken to Versailles; for three months I struggled with death; at last, as I seemed to cling to life, I was ordered to the South.†   (source)
  • Then he became alarmed, and dared not stay any longer at Nimes, so he solicited a change of residence, and, as he was in reality very influential, he was nominated to Versailles.†   (source)
  • Henrietta's own advent occurred two days later and produced in Mr. Bantling an emotion amply accounted for by the fact that he had not seen her since the termination of the episode at Versailles.†   (source)
  • The carriages that drove up to the door were compelled to turn, to avoid a fountain that played in a basin of rockwork,—an ornament that had excited the jealousy of the whole quarter, and had gained for the place the appellation of "The Little Versailles."†   (source)
  • "An old gentleman," continued the concierge, "a stanch follower of the Bourbons; he had an only daughter, who married M. de Villefort, who had been the king's attorney at Nimes, and afterwards at Versailles."†   (source)
  • Thus /Des Moines/ is /dee-moyns/, /Terre Haute/ is /terry-hut/, /Beaufort/ is /byu-fort/, /New Orleans/ is /or-leens/, /Lafayette/ has a flat /a/, /Havre de Grace/ has another, and /Versailles/ is /ver-sales/.†   (source)
  • The veins and arteries spouted up such a prodigious quantity of blood, and so high in the air, that the great jet d'eau at Versailles was not equal to it for the time it lasted: and the head, when it fell on the scaffold floor, gave such a bounce as made me start, although I was at least half an English mile distant.†   (source)
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