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  • For a time he was Napoleon's aide-de-camp.
  • When the aide-de-camp stood back to his full height, he was holding a pineapple.†   (source)
  • To the Count's surprise, it was the aide-de-camp.†   (source)
  • As the audience applauded, the aide-de-camp gave a bow.†   (source)
  • "What did I do?" exclaimed the aide-de-camp.†   (source)
  • As a "fighting Quaker," he had since become Washington's aide-de-camp.†   (source)
  • Sarah Mifflin, the wife of Colonel Thomas Mifflin, a young aide-de-camp, also arrived.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP You think the riot will spread here?†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP What do we do about the invasion?†   (source)
  • The AIDE-DE-CAMP goes, somewhat reluctantly.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP We have a detachment of soldiers from the capital sir.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP Mm, two or three at the most.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP Well he'd better learn to answer civil questions when he's asked them.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP Would you be needing me sir?†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP I'll give instructions at once.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP [rushing out] Mrs Pilkings.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP Sir, there's a group of women chanting up the hill.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP Oh yes, they are quite intact.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP If you're sure ....JANE Of course I'm sure.†   (source)
  • In the fall of '67, Owen Meany made a deal with Major General LaHoad; he was not appointed LaHoad's aide-de-camp—LaHoad was too proud of the commendations that Owen received as a casualty assistance officer.†   (source)
  • Minutes later, the aide-de-camp flings open the shutters of an upstairs window and gazes a moment across the rooftops before unfurling a crimson flag over the brick and securing its eyelets to the sill.†   (source)
  • Taking in the scene at a glance, the aide-de-camp issued a sigh of satisfaction and then remarked to no one in particular: "How I love this hotel."†   (source)
  • A moment later, as the Count gave the brandy in his snifter a swirl, he found himself smiling at the aide-de-camp's portrayal—which in turn led him to reflect on the personality of Americans in general.†   (source)
  • But as he entered the bar, he discovered a raucous group composed of journalists, members of the diplomatic corps, and two of the young hostesses in their little black dresses—and at the center of the commotion, for the third night in a row, was the American general's aide-de-camp.†   (source)
  • The aide-de-camp leapt.†   (source)
  • Omar had not merely approved Max's request to speak with his charge about serving as aide-de-camp; he had given his enthusiastic blessing.†   (source)
  • A Harvard graduate and an attorney in civilian life, he was quick-witted, charming, six feet two inches tall, and had been serving as an aide-de-camp to General Sullivan.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP They're not many.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP Anything wrong sir?†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP We have that already.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP Very good, sir.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP Very good sir.†   (source)
  • PILKINGS [takes him to one side] Listen Bob, that cellar in the disused annexe of the Residency, you know, where the slaves were stored before being taken down to the coast .... AIDE-DE-CAMP Oh yes, we use it as a storeroom for broken furniture.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP Yes of course.†   (source)
  • The AIDE-DE-CAMP runs in.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP Right sir.†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP I said stop!†   (source)
  • AIDE-DE-CAMP Who are you?†   (source)
  • I always tell him: Here he is Uncle's aide-de-camp, a most brilliant position.†   (source)
  • Ask Martingale; he was in Spain, aide-de-camp to General Blazes.†   (source)
  • His aide-de-camp, Gordon, fell at his side.†   (source)
  • His function as aide-de-camp to General Tufto had ceased previously.†   (source)
  • Aide-de-camp Bernard carried them the Emperor's orders.†   (source)
  • An aide-de-camp behind him rushed forward and picked it up.†   (source)
  • The whole army feels great suspicion of the Imperial aide-de-camp Wolzogen.†   (source)
  • The Countess was shocked at the familiarity of General Tufto with the aide-de-camp's wife.†   (source)
  • An aide-de-camp approached with gliding steps and offered him a gold snuffbox, which he took.†   (source)
  • The Russian Emperor's aide-de-camp is an impostor.†   (source)
  • He involuntarily looked round at the aide-de-camp.†   (source)
  • An aide-de-camp, the Master of Ceremonies, went up to Countess Bezukhova and asked her to dance.†   (source)
  • He might easily become aide-de-camp to the Emperor.†   (source)
  • They were an aide-de-camp followed by a Cossack.†   (source)
  • "And what a well-preserved man he was!" remarked the aide-de-camp.†   (source)
  • Let Monsieur de Beausset enter, and Fabvier too," he said, nodding to the aide-de-camp.†   (source)
  • "No prisoners!" said he, repeating the aide-de-camp's words.†   (source)
  • The aide-de-camp replied that probably the Emperor would not be displeased at this excess of zeal.†   (source)
  • "That was a nice snub for the little aide-de-camp," came a voice from behind.†   (source)
  • He took his seat beside the aide-de-camp on duty and drove into the suburb.†   (source)
  • "I was there," said Rostov angrily, as if intending to insult the aide-de-camp.†   (source)
  • "Yes, sire," and the aide-de-camp disappeared through the door of the tent.†   (source)
  • He is an aide-de-camp of Kutuzov's and will be here tonight.†   (source)
  • Having introduced his parlor game and seeing that it was a hit, the director departed with his aide-de-camp in tow.†   (source)
  • Fortune willed, however, that the hurried approach of Mrs. Fisher, as whose aide-de-camp Van Alstyne was acting, should break up the group before Selden reached the threshold of the room.†   (source)
  • Yes, Hans Castorp was now sitting in the same spot the humanist had deserted; like his old place, it was at one end of the table, opposite the "doctor's chair," which was reserved at each of the seven tables for the director and his aide-de-camp.†   (source)
  • To judge from what the X-ray plate showed and what Behrens dictated to his psychoanalytic aide-de-camp during Joachim's monthly checkup, it was only too clear that there could be no question of a departure, unless it was fraudulent, because this time it was a matter of Joachim's remaining on duty up here with iron self-discipline, until he had been made fully weatherproof—only then could he fulfill his oath by service in the flatlands.†   (source)
  • Fearfully rich, handsome, great connections, an aide-de-camp, and with all that a very nice, good-natured fellow.†   (source)
  • "Bill!" he called, and he went into the next room where he promptly came across an aide-de-camp of his acquaintance and dropped into conversation with him about an actress and her protector.†   (source)
  • And at once in the conversation with the aide-de-camp Oblonsky had a sense of relaxation and relief after the conversation with Levin, which always put him to too great a mental and spiritual strain.†   (source)
  • You go as General Tufto's aide-de-camp.†   (source)
  • George was always welcome in the apartments (very close indeed to those of the General) which the aide-de-camp and his wife occupied in the hotel.†   (source)
  • The aide-de-camp must have arrived sometime while Jos and Rebecca were making their bargain together, or the latter was inspecting his purchase.†   (source)
  • Firkin rushed downstairs to Bowls who was reading out the "Fire and the Frying Pan" to his aide-de-camp in a loud and ghostly voice.†   (source)
  • The Colonel and his aide-de-camp went out to meet the gentleman, rightly conjecturing that he was an emissary of Lord Steyne.†   (source)
  • He was delighted to see Rawdon leaning over his carriage familiarly and talking to Amelia, and met the aide-de-camp's cordial greeting with more than corresponding warmth.†   (source)
  • The Hebrew aide-de-camp in the service of the officer at the table bid against the Hebrew gentleman employed by the elephant purchasers, and a brisk battle ensued over this little piano, the combatants being greatly encouraged by Mr. Hammerdown.†   (source)
  • This gentleman's acquaintance gave a loud whistle as the latter spoke, at which signal a cab came clattering up from those stationed at the gate of Gaunt House—and the aide-de-camp ran round and placed himself in front of Colonel Crawley.†   (source)
  • As for the cross and epaulets, they came from a Colonel of French cavalry, who had fallen under the aide-de-camp's arm in the battle: and Rawdon Crawley did not know what better to do with the spoils than to send them to his kindest and most affectionate old friend.†   (source)
  • No man in the British army which has marched away, not the great Duke himself, could be more cool or collected in the presence of doubts and difficulties, than the indomitable little aide-de-camp's wife.†   (source)
  • Then Mrs. Bute had a comfortable hot toast and tea; and as there was a vacant room in the house now, there was no need for her to remain at the Gloster Coffee House where the Portsmouth mail had set her down, and whence she ordered Mr. Bowls's aide-de-camp the footman to bring away her trunks.†   (source)
  • But Amelia had no fear about this; for the little schemer had actually sent away the page, Mr. Sambo's aide-de-camp, to Mr. Joseph's lodgings, to ask for some book he had promised, and how he was; and the reply through Jos's man, Mr. Brush, was, that his master was ill in bed, and had just had the doctor with him.†   (source)
  • Stragglers had come in from the army bringing reports more and more favourable: at last an aide-de-camp actually reached Brussels with despatches for the Commandant of the place, who placarded presently through the town an official announcement of the success of the allies at Quatre Bras, and the entire repulse of the French under Ney after a six hours' battle.†   (source)
  • However much he might be disposed to hate all parvenus (Mr. Wenham himself was a staunch old True Blue Tory, and his father a small coal-merchant in the north of England), this aide-de-camp of the Marquis never showed any sort of hostility to the new favourite, but pursued her with stealthy kindnesses and a sly and deferential politeness which somehow made Becky more uneasy than other people's overt hostilities.†   (source)
  • How soon will he be here?" he asked the aide-de-camp with a respectful politeness evidently relating to the personage he was referring to.†   (source)
  • Behind him stood the aide-de-camp, the doctors, and the menservants; the men and women had separated as in church.†   (source)
  • "Dere has neffer been a gase," a German doctor was saying to an aide-de-camp, "dat one liffs after de sird stroke."†   (source)
  • You see..." but before Prince Andrew could finish, an aide-de-camp came in to summon Dolgorukov to the Emperor.†   (source)
  • Seeing Prince Andrew she leaned out from behind the apron and, waving her thin arms from under the woolen shawl, cried: "Mr. Aide-de-camp!†   (source)
  • He had picked up the scrap of a grenade that had killed an aide-de-camp standing near the commander in chief and had taken it to his commander.†   (source)
  • Boris Drubetskoy, having left his wife in Moscow and being for the present en garcon (as he phrased it), was also there and, though not an aide-de-camp, had subscribed a large sum toward the expenses.†   (source)
  • Coming out of Kutuzov's room into the waiting room with the papers in his hand Prince Andrew came up to his comrade, the aide-de-camp on duty, Kozlovski, who was sitting at the window with a book.†   (source)
  • The guest of honor was an aide-de-camp of Napoleon's, there were also several French officers of the Guard, and a page of Napoleon's, a young lad of an old aristocratic French family.†   (source)
  • He was aide-de-camp to a very important personage, had been sent on a very important mission to Prussia, and had just returned from there as a special messenger.†   (source)
  • "General Kutuzov," said Bolkonski, speaking French and stressing the last syllable of the general's name like a Frenchman, "has been pleased to take me as an aide-de-camp...."†   (source)
  • A worried aide-de-camp ran up to the Rostovs requesting them to stand farther back, though as it was they were already close to the wall, and from the gallery resounded the distinct, precise, enticingly rhythmical strains of a waltz.†   (source)
  • The aide-de-camp was sent to confirm the order which had not been clearly worded the day before, namely, that the commander in chief wished to see the regiment just in the state in which it had been on the march: in their greatcoats, and packs, and without any preparation whatever.†   (source)
  • Though the aide-de-camp did not know these circumstances, he nevertheless delivered the definite order that the men should be in their greatcoats and in marching order, and that the commander in chief would otherwise be dissatisfied.†   (source)
  • After Prince Andrew, Boris came up to ask Natasha for a dance, and then the aide-de-camp who had opened the ball, and several other young men, so that, flushed and happy, and passing on her superfluous partners to Sonya, she did not cease dancing all the evening.†   (source)
  • As soon as the aide-de-camp had said this, the old mustached officer, with happy face and sparkling eyes, raised his saber, shouted "Vivat!" and, commanding the Uhlans to follow him, spurred his horse and galloped into the river.†   (source)
  • The colonel of the Polish Uhlans, a handsome old man, flushed and, fumbling in his speech from excitement, asked the aide-de-camp whether he would be permitted to swim the river with his Uhlans instead of seeking a ford.†   (source)
  • Boris, grown more manly and looking fresh, rosy and self-possessed, entered the drawing room elegantly dressed in the uniform of an aide-de-camp and was duly conducted to pay his respects to the aunt and then brought back to the general circle.†   (source)
  • A strange lady, the one who had been talking to the priests, rose and offered him her seat; an aide-de-camp picked up and returned a glove Pierre had dropped; the doctors became respectfully silent as he passed by, and moved to make way for him.†   (source)
  • An aide-de-camp, who had entered the bedroom to report to the Emperor the number of prisoners taken in yesterday's action, was standing by the door after delivering his message, awaiting permission to withdraw.†   (source)
  • The novelty Anna Pavlovna was setting before her guests that evening was Boris Drubetskoy, who had just arrived as a special messenger from the Prussian army and was aide-de-camp to a very important personage.†   (source)
  • Pierre went in at the door, stepping on the soft carpet, and noticed that the strange lady, the aide-de-camp, and some of the servants, all followed him in, as if there were now no further need for permission to enter that room.†   (source)
  • Officers are nothing when they have no powers; this one had none....The Austrians let themselves be tricked at the crossing of the Vienna bridge, you are letting yourself be tricked by an aide-de-camp of the Emperor.†   (source)
  • Boris listened attentively to each of the speakers, awaiting his turn, but managed meanwhile to look round repeatedly at his neighbor, the beautiful Helene, whose eyes several times met those of the handsome young aide-de-camp with a smile.†   (source)
  • When the aide-de-camp, having returned and choosing an opportune moment, ventured to draw the Emperor's attention to the devotion of the Poles to his person, the little man in the gray overcoat got up and, having summoned Berthier, began pacing up and down the bank with him, giving him instructions and occasionally glancing disapprovingly at the drowning Uhlans who distracted his attention.†   (source)
  • Neither Bennigsen nor the Emperor was there, but Chernyshev, the Emperor's aide-de-camp, received Bolkonski and informed him that the Emperor, accompanied by General Bennigsen and Marquis Paulucci, had gone a second time that day to inspect the fortifications of the Drissa camp, of the suitability of which serious doubts were beginning to be felt.†   (source)
  • The aide-de-camp, an adept in his art, grasping his partner firmly round her waist, with confident deliberation started smoothly, gliding first round the edge of the circle, then at the corner of the room he caught Helene's left hand and turned her, the only sound audible, apart from the ever-quickening music, being the rhythmic click of the spurs on his rapid, agile feet, while at every third beat his partner's velvet dress spread out and seemed to flash as she whirled round.†   (source)
  • Mr. Aide-de-camp!†   (source)
  • Mr. Aide-de-camp!†   (source)
  • He took the glove in silence from the aide-de-camp, and sat down in the lady's chair, placing his huge hands symmetrically on his knees in the naive attitude of an Egyptian statue, and decided in his own mind that all was as it should be, and that in order not to lose his head and do foolish things he must not act on his own ideas tonight, but must yield himself up entirely to the will of those who were guiding him.†   (source)
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