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  • Starting at eleven each morning, the meetings took place at Jay's lodgings at the Hotel d'Orleans on the Rue des Petits-Augustins on the Left Bank; or at Adams's Hotel du Roi; or the Hotel de Valentinois at Passy, to spare Franklin the ride into Paris in such weather; or at Richard Oswald's quarters at the Grand Hotel Muscovite, also on the Rue des Petits-Augustins.†   (source)
  • Only one very new in the business would be so boorish as to insult a neighbor's ambassador during the rainy season, it was decided, and that one would thereafter be marked as a nouveau roi.†   (source)
  • Against this wall stood a large discarded scene from the ROI DE LAHORE.†   (source)
  • You shall have such a son yourself; le roi de Rome.†   (source)
  • At a lever-du-roi one morning (do you know what a lever-du-roi was?†   (source)
  • "Le roi de Rome," whispered the general, trembling all over.†   (source)
  • Ni foi, ni loi, Ni feu, ni lieu, Ni roi, Ni Dieu.†   (source)
  • Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte.†   (source)
  • "Monsieur le Procureur du Roi," said Pierrat abruptly, "How shall we begin?"†   (source)
  • We are not fighting pour le Roi de Prusse, but for right principles.†   (source)
  • Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte.†   (source)
  • Come now, what about your Roi de Prusse?†   (source)
  • I will conduct you to see the lions of the Hôtel du Roi, which are wild beasts.†   (source)
  • Nous en avons force les grilles, Le roi Charles-Dix ce jour la, Tenait mal et se decolla.†   (source)
  • Vive ce roi valiant!" sang Morel, winking.†   (source)
  • Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte.†   (source)
  • Bending forward in his armchair he said: "Le Roi de Prusse!" and having said this laughed.†   (source)
  • On this paper there was an address: M. Barge, collector of rents, Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, No. 8.†   (source)
  • Je n'ai qu'un Dieu, qu'un roi, qu'un liard, et qu'une botte.†   (source)
  • Nothing, unless it were such strange titles as the Testament de Cesar Girodot, or Oedipe-Roi, inscribed not on the green bills of the Opera-Comique, but on the wine-coloured bills of the Comedie-Francaise, nothing seemed to me to differ more profoundly from the sparkling white plume of the Diamants de la Couronne than the sleek, mysterious satin of the Domino Noir; and since my parents had told me that, for my first visit to the theatre, I should have to choose between these two…†   (source)
  • Le roi de Rome.†   (source)
  • They left her at the Hotel Roi George, and as she disappeared between the intersecting planes made by lobby lights of the glass doors, Rosemary's oppression lifted.†   (source)
  • 'Le Roi est mort—vive le Roi.'†   (source)
  • Back at two o'clock in the Roi George corridor the beauty of Nicole had been to the beauty of Rosemary as the beauty of Leonardo's girl was to that of the girl of an illustrator.†   (source)
  • He slipped between the set piece and the scene from the ROI DE LAHORE, with Raoul close upon his heels.†   (source)
  • It had become apparent that Rosemary either had escaped on one of his early circuits of the block or else had left before he came into the neighborhood; he went into the bistro on the corner, bought a lead disk and, squeezed in an alcove between the kitchen and the foul toilet, he called the Roi George.†   (source)
  • The workmen answered: " 'That' is Joseph Buquet, who was found in the third cellar, hanging between a farm-house and a scene from the ROI DE LAHORE."†   (source)
  • He was found, this evening, hanging in the third cellar, between a farm-house and a scene from the Roi de Lahore.†   (source)
  • What roi de Rome?†   (source)
  • He seemed half mad and told me that the body of a scene-shifter had been found hanging in the third cellar under the stage, between a farm-house and a scene from the Roi de Lahore.†   (source)
  • I will tell you," said the Persian, with a sudden change in his voice, "I will tell you the exact place, sir: it is between a set piece and a discarded scene from ROI DE LAHORE, exactly at the spot where Joseph Buquet died….†   (source)
  • I can well imagine Erik dragging the body, in order to get rid of it, to the scene from the Roi de Lahore, and hanging it there as an example, or to increase the superstitious terror that was to help him in guarding the approaches to his lair!†   (source)
  • [5] These two pairs of boots, which were placed, according to the Persian's papers, just between the set piece and the scene from the ROI DE LAHORE, on the spot where Joseph Buquet was found hanging, were never discovered.†   (source)
  • After avoiding the commissary of police, a number of door-shutters and the firemen, after meeting the rat-catcher and passing the man in the felt hat unperceived, the viscount and I arrived without obstacle in the third cellar, between the set piece and the scene from the Roi de Lahore.†   (source)
  • But the idea of the secret entrance in the third cellar haunted me, and I repeatedly went and waited for hours behind a scene from the Roi de Lahore, which had been left there for some reason or other.†   (source)
  • Rotten Row means 'Route de Roi', or the king's way, but now it's more like a riding school than anything else.†   (source)
  • Le roi est mort, vive le roi.†   (source)
  • Etes-vous officier du roi?†   (source)
  • The Deputy Procureur du Roi.†   (source)
  • The writers of that age felt a species of genuine enthusiasm in extolling the power of their king; and there was no peasant so obscure in his hovel as not to take a pride in the glory of his sovereign, and to die cheerfully with the cry "Vive le Roi!" upon his lips.†   (source)
  • It was this: DE PAR LE ROI.†   (source)
  • Vive le roi de Rome!†   (source)
  • DE PAR LE ROI Clarence's editorial reference to this affair was to this effect: It will be observed, by a glance at our advertising columns, that the community is to be favored with a treat of unusual interest in the tournament line.†   (source)
  • "Silence for the rondo, and attention to the refrain,— "~Quand les rats mangeront les cas, Le roi sera seigneur d'Arras; Quand la mer, qui est grande et le(e Sera a la Saint-Jean gele(e, On verra, par-dessus la glace, Sortir ceux d'Arras de leur place~*."†   (source)
  • One day he had halted near Saint Germain-l'Auxerrois, at the corner of a mansion called "For-l'Evêque " (the Bishop's Tribunal), which stood opposite another called "For-le-Roi" (the King's Tribunal).†   (source)
  • But still he and those about him retained their old habits: wrote commands, letters, reports, and orders of the day; called one another sire, mon cousin, prince d'Eckmuhl, roi de Naples, and so on.†   (source)
  • (he wanted to repeat a joke he had heard in Vienna and which he had been trying all that evening to get in) "I only wished to say that we are wrong to fight pour le Roi de Prusse!"†   (source)
  • He then pursued his road, and resumed his song:— "Le roi Coupdesabot S'en allait a la chasse, A la chasse aux corbeaux—"†   (source)
  • When one turns from the Rue des Ballets into the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile, one almost immediately encounters a repulsive ruin.†   (source)
  • "It is the sword of Frederick the Great which I…." she began, but Hippolyte interrupted her with the words: "Le Roi de Prusse…." and again, as soon as all turned toward him, excused himself and said no more.†   (source)
  • Le Roi de Prusse?†   (source)
  • At that epoch, King Louis XVIII. went nearly every day to Choisy-le-Roi: it was one of his favorite excursions.†   (source)
  • These eighty francs were punctually paid in the name of M. Gillenormand, by collector of his rents, M. Barge, a retired tip-staff, in the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile.†   (source)
  • The bridge of Austerlitz had abdicated, and was entitled the bridge of the King's Garden [du Jardin du Roi], a double enigma, which disguised the bridge of Austerlitz and the Jardin des Plantes at one stroke.†   (source)
  • Had he made use of the ladders and scaffoldings of the slaters to get from roof to roof, from enclosure to enclosure, from compartment to compartment, to the buildings of the Charlemagne court, then to the buildings of the Saint-Louis court, to the outer wall, and thence to the hut on the Rue du Roi-de-Sicile?†   (source)
  • Then he executed a pirouette on his heel; a moment later, the old woman, who had remained on the door-step, heard him singing in his clear, young voice, as he plunged under the black elm-trees, in the wintry wind:— "Le roi Coupdesabot[31] S'en allait a la chasse, A la chasse aux corbeaux, Monte sur deux echasses.†   (source)
  • For them, nothing exists two leagues beyond the barriers: Ivry, Gentilly, Arcueil, Belleville, Aubervilliers, Menilmontant, Choisy-le-Roi, Billancourt, Mendon, Issy, Vanvre, Sevres, Puteaux, Neuilly, Gennevilliers, Colombes, Romainville, Chatou, Asnieres, Bougival, Nanterre, Enghien, Noisy-le-Sec, Nogent, Gournay, Drancy, Gonesse; the universe ends there.†   (source)
  • By it the French /route de roi/ has become /Rotten Row/ in English, /écrevisse/ has become /crayfish/, and the English /bowsprit/ has become /beau pré/ (=/beautiful meadow/) in French.†   (source)
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