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  • He raced to the Napoleon-St. Charles staging ground and gathered a crew of police and military personnel.   (source)
  • The Colonel's doing his Napoleon walk.   (source)
  • 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)
  • Military men wondered aloud what more Napoleon might have accomplished if he'd had the man in his ranks.   (source)
  • "Neither have we been discussing Napoleon's white horse in the front seat," Dede reminded him, pushing him gently away.   (source)
  • Why didn't Napoleon conquer Russia?   (source)
  • He did not think he was Napoleon.   (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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • 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)
  • I seen one marching out of there like Napoleon yesterday.   (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)
  • This man is a Napoleon, a Genghis Khan, Attila the Hun.   (source)
  • Napoleon regarded all people as equal before the law and wanted them to have equal opportunities for advancement.   (source)
  • He's wearing the same clothing as yesterday, jeans and a ratty T-shirt with Napoleon's silhouette on it.   (source)
  • The slaves' long and bloody revolt, which began in 1791 and which not even Napoleon and forty thousand troops could put down.   (source)
  • There was a description of the execution of Queen Mary Stuart, and you could see Napoleon's signature.   (source)
  • Napoleon gazed westward from its lid, identifiable by his cocked hat and gold epaulettes.   (source)
  • I was born the very year Napoleon marched into my country—born into war and that is how I shall go.   (source)
  • Napoleon once hung her on his bedroom wall, gazing upon her each morning.   (source)
  • It is I.
    I, this incessant snow,
    This northern sky;
    Soldiers, this solitude
    Through which we go
    Is I.
    Walter de la Mare, Napoleon   (source)
    Napoleon = a poem named for Napoleon Bonaparte
  • You can tell me how Napoleon won his wars?   (source)
    Napoleon = French general and emperor who conquered most of continental Europe for a brief time early in the 19th century
  • 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)
  • You know when people are crazy they think they're somebody important—like Napoleon or something.   (source)
  • We have here an extraordinary tactician, a Napoleon of strategy and personal responsibility.   (source)
  • But I think Napoleon said it better.   (source)
  • Servants help Marie Antoinette and Sir Walter Raleigh, Napoleon and Queen Elizabeth from their coaches.   (source)
  • Kutuzov defeated Napoleon precisely because he was not swayed by the ephemeral and superficial values of the court, and made his decisions on a visceral understanding of his men and his people.   (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)
  • 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 said there wasn't hardly any young'uns atall my age that knew about Mr. Macbeth or Mr. Napoleon, or that studied dictionaries.   (source)
  • Ask Napoleon.   (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)
  • "I met Napoleon once," said Magnus.   (source)
  • Threatened pride on top of Napoleon's complex was like gasoline on a campfire.   (source)
  • Napoleon knew a thing or two, what?   (source)
  • Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Hitler-none of them exists.   (source)
  • In my full dress, I looked like one of Napoleon's grenadiers, even though I felt like the king of the penguins.   (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)
  • 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)
  • Napoleon made them!   (source)
  • Napoleon had once made a remark about it.   (source)
  • Caesar had done it, Xerxes, Napoleon, and Hitler failed.   (source)
  • He denied that history was set in motion by Napoleon or any other ruler or general, but he did not develop his idea to its logical conclusion.   (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)
  • These papers were from parsons and school-inspectors and the like, and said that the bearer, Napoleon Letsitsi, was a young man of sober habits and good conduct, and another paper said that he had passed out of a school in the Transkei as an agricultural demonstrator.   (source)
  • Look at Napoleon and Wellington.   (source)
  • And as for France, that weak imitation of Napoleon is far too busy establishing the French in Mexico to be bothered with us.   (source)
  • When I arrived at a South Side hotel I was introduced to a short, yellow man who carried himself like Napoleon.   (source)
  • "I feel myself," said Napoleon at the opening of his Russian campaign, "driven towards an end that I do not know."   (source)
  • He's on his way to becoming the Napoleon of all architectural critics, your Uncle Ellsworth is, just watch him.   (source)
  • What did Danton lose his head for, or why was there a Napoleon, if it wasn't to make a nobility of us all?   (source)
  • I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon—down here everybody thinks he's Christ.   (source)
  • Mr. Webb's a good mind to give up Napoleon and move over to the Civil War, only Doctor Gibbs being one of the greatest experts in the country just makes him despair.   (source)
  • They were crackling in front of them the pages of THE TIMES, when she came in from the garden, all in a muddle, about something some one had said about Christ, or hearing that a mammoth had been dug up in a London street, or wondering what Napoleon was like.   (source)
  • Such was my vision when Napoleon was still a name unknown; and I see it now, more clearly with each hour.   (source)
  • I took 'Napoleon Announcing the Divorce to Josephine' for my frontispiece.   (source)
  • Mr. Letterblair was a widower, and they dined alone, copiously and slowly, in a dark shabby room hung with yellowing prints of "The Death of Chatham" and "The Coronation of Napoleon."   (source)
  • In brief, soldiers fought for the Spanish Counter-Reformation, for Napoleon, for Garibaldi—and now we have Prussian soldiers.   (source)
  • At the height of Napoleon's unexampled conquests, there were Americans who had fought at Bunker Hill who looked forward to the possibility that the Atlantic might prove no barrier against the ultimate schemes of this French upstart from the revolutionary chaos who seemed in act of fulfilling judgment prefigured in the Apocalypse.   (source)
  • In the presence of a Napoleon like Clif and a Gladstone like George F. Babbitt, Martin perceived his own lack of power and business skill, and when he had returned to Mohalis he was restless.   (source)
  • She could not leave his presence when he was there, nor remove her eyes from his face, which was something like Napoleon's, with a lock of black hair failing across the forehead.   (source)
  • 'Want Europe,' if he's Napoleon; 'want wives,' if he's Bluebeard; 'want Botticelli,' if he's Pierpont Morgan.   (source)
  • Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't bear children.   (source)
  • Napoleon provided Talma with a pit of kings, with what effect on Talma's acting is not recorded.   (source)
  • A couple of days after this, Napoleon's page, De Bazancour, died; he had not been able to stand the trials of the campaign.   (source)
  • "When I dismantled my old Pantheon and cast out Napoleon and Caesar and their fellows, I straightway erected a new Pantheon," she answered gravely, "and the first I installed as Dr. Jordan."   (source)
  • At Fourways men had stood and talked of Napoleon, the loss of America, the execution of King Charles, the burning of the Martyrs, the Crusades, the Norman Conquest, possibly of the arrival of Caesar.   (source)
  • Napoleon and all his kind stood accounted for—and justified.   (source)
  • "Dirty old hole, isn't it?" he added, with a look of disgust as they drove along the boulevard to the Place Napoleon in the old city.   (source)
  • In the way of literary talk, it is true, the Naval Officer—an excellent fellow, who came into the office with me, and went out only a little later—would often engage me in a discussion about one or the other of his favourite topics, Napoleon or Shakespeare.   (source)
  • I well remember that I considered it an epoch in my life when I visited it for the first time; after the fall of Napoleon, an event which opened the Continent to travellers.   (source)
  • NAPOLEON Bonaparte's adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to Murat.   (source)
  • Napoleon knew what the French people want, and there'll be a dark cloud over Paris, our Paris, till they get the Empire back again.   (source)
  • At the reproaches with which he was being overwhelmed Napoleon began to roar, while Justin dried his shoes with a wisp of straw.   (source)
  • At times, he spoke to his slaves with the firmness of Napoleon and the fury of a demon; at other times, he might well be mistaken for an inquirer who had lost his way.   (source)
  • Napoleon certainly he knew something of, inasmuch as he had seen and spoken with him; but of Clement VII.   (source)
  • Napoleon went to St. Helena; Quoil came to Walden Woods.   (source)
  • Right in the midst of one of Napoleon's battles, or one of Canning's speeches, poor Nolan would find a great hole, because on the back of the page of that paper there had been an advertisement of a packet for New York, or a scrap from the President's message.   (source)
  • Vassily Ivanovitch walked up and down during the whole of dinner, and with a perfectly happy, positively beatific countenance, talked about the serious anxiety he felt at Napoleon's policy, and the intricacy of the Italian question.   (source)
  • Cardinal Caprara,[418] the Pope's[419] legate at Paris, defended himself from the glances of Napoleon, by an immense pair of green spectacles.   (source)
  • Napoleon, it is said, was the inventor of this new system; but the invention of such a system did not depend on any individual man, whoever he might be.   (source)
  • You look over at the next player and say, 'Wow— Napoleon Bonaparte was the original inspiration for Beethoven's Third Symphony, but as legend has it, the composer's opinion of the man changed when he saw the liberator become a tyrant.†   (source)
  • At lunchtime in the large gray concrete playground, he would stand in the center of a crowd of big boys and ask, "Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?"†   (source)
  • Washington's death had seemed to mark the close of one era; thearrival of Napoleon Bonaparte ushered in another.†   (source)
  • Napoleon Bonaparte.†   (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)
  • 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)
  • —There was another Napoleon, said Kumalo, who was also a man who did many things.   (source)
  • If you tried to retreat to trap Napoleon in Italy you would find yourself in Brindisi.   (source)
  • I have indicated what Napoleon once thought of you and what Mussolini thinks now.   (source)
  • Popé was born a San Juan Indian, but so was Napoleon a Corsican.   (source)
  • "I mean," he answered, "what Napoleon—perhaps you've heard of him?"   (source)
  • Napoleon would have whipped the Austrians on the plains.   (source)
  • The Austrian army was created to give Napoleon victories; any Napoleon.   (source)
  • The "Last Words" of great men, Napoleon, Lord Byron, were still printed in gift-books, and the dying murmurs of every common man and woman were listened for and treasured by their neighbours and kinsfolk.   (source)
  • I wished we had a Napoleon, but instead we had Generale Cadorna, fat and prosperous and Vittorio Emmanuele, the tiny man with the long thin neck and the goat beard.   (source)
  • For I changed and changed; was Hamlet, was Shelley, was the hero, whose name I now forget, of a novel by Dostoevsky; was for a whole term, incredibly, Napoleon; but was Byron chiefly.   (source)
  • That is why Napoleon and Mussolini both insist so emphatically upon the inferiority of women, for if they were not inferior, they would cease to enlarge.   (source)
  • She leant on them; on cubes and square roots; that was what they were talking about now; on Voltaire and Madame de Stael; on the character of Napoleon; on the French system of land tenure; on Lord Rosebery; on Creevey's Memoirs: she let it uphold her and sustain her, this admirable fabric of the masculine intelligence, which ran up and down, crossed this way and that, like iron girders spanning the swaying fabric, upholding the world, so that she could trust herself to it utterly, even shut her eyes, or flicker them for a moment, as a child staring up from its pillow winks at the myriad layers of the leaves of a tree.   (source)
  • He was a young Austrian named Henschell who had soldiered against Napoleon in Italy—a youth of noble birth, high culture, and much charm of manner.   (source)
  • The weight of the world is on our shoulders; its vision is through our eyes; if we blink or look aside, or turn back to finger what Plato said or remember Napoleon and his conquests, we inflict on the world the injury of some obliquity.   (source)
  • Queen Carlotta used to go to chapel near us, and she never forgave the French, because of Napoleon the Third.   (source)
  • And she went on telling herself a story about escaping from a sinking ship, for she was safe, while he sat there; safe, as she felt herself when she crept in from the garden, and took a book down, and the old gentleman, lowering the paper suddenly, said something very brief over the top of it about the character of Napoleon.   (source)
  • He ate more rapidly than the others and had plenty of time to plead his cause,—finished each course with such dispatch that the Frenchman remarked he would have been an ideal dinner companion for Napoleon.   (source)
  • Napoleon thought them incapable.   (source)
  • Nor are lifted straight out after an unlucky tumble, like a Napoleon from the mud of the Arcole where he had been standing up to his thoughtful nose while the Hungarian bullets broke the clay off the bank.   (source)
  • Lak Napoleon, I follow my star.   (source)
  • And he considered that he had the right to treat me like this, because he was making progress while I was making a fool of myself, and he intended to carry me along with him, when it was time, the way Napoleon did his brothers.   (source)
  • From her French mother, whose parents had fled Haiti in the Revolution of 1791, had come her slanting dark eyes, shadowed by inky lashes, and her black hair; and from her father, a soldier of Napoleon, she had her long straight nose and her square-cut jaw that was softened by the gentle curving of her cheeks.   (source)
  • And there is the girl behind the counter too—I would as soon have her true history as the hundred and fiftieth life of Napoleon or seventieth study of Keats and his use of Miltonic inversion which old Professor Z and his like are now inditing.   (source)
  • Napoleon when he escaped in the old box of a sledge from wintry Russia, the troops of his dead lying like so many flocks covered in snow, talked three days to Caulaincourt who probably couldn't hear very well because his ears were bandaged—his master couldn't practice his old trick of pulling them—but he must have seen in his boss's swollen face the depth that kept floating a whole Europe of details.   (source)
  • The Russians did, to trap Napoleon.   (source)
  • Gerald, penniless, had raised Tara; Ellen had risen above some mysterious sorrow; Grandfather Robillard, surviving the wreck of Napoleon's throne, had founded his fortunes anew on the fertile Georgia coast; Great-grandfather Prudhomme had carved a small kingdom out of the dark jungles of Haiti, lost it, and lived to see his name honored in Savannah.   (source)
  • Now Napoleon was.   (source)
  • As she lay in the summer light, tempered by the shades and the catalpa of the front yard, flat on her back with compresses, towels, rags, she had a considerable altitude of trunk, the soles of her feet shining from the sheets like graphite rubbings, feet of war disasters in the ruined villages of Napoleon's Spanish campaign; flies riding in echelon on the long string of the light switch.   (source)
  • As old Napoleon Brunot said at the fair, I wouldn't go lovering after no woman.   (source)
  • Fifty years after Waterloo Napoleon was as much a hero to English school children as Wellington.   (source)
  • 'Like Napoleon going to England, eh?' cried he, laughing.   (source)
  • Then the Spanish gorillas came down from the hills and nipped at Napoleon's flanks.   (source)
  • And once a lot of generals had asked Napoleon what was the happiest day of his life.   (source)
  • Napoleon, passing a couple of paces from me, caught sight of me accidentally.   (source)
  • Napoleon was walking up and down with folded arms.   (source)
  • 'But he's loyal to me and my dynasty,' said Napoleon of him.   (source)
  • Napoleon started, reflected, and said, 'You remind me of a third heart which loves me.   (source)
  • Napoleon shuddered—his fate was being decided.   (source)
  • Only it is the Austrians whom I conquer—not Napoleon.   (source)
  • And were you much occupied with your service under Napoleon?   (source)
  • Napoleon liked the idea—it attracted him.   (source)
  • I suppose you imagine yourself a field-marshal, and think you have conquered Napoleon?   (source)
  • Take Napoleon—the Great and also the present one.   (source)
  • Although General d'Epinay served under Napoleon, did he not still retain royalist sentiments?   (source)
  • He believed in his wife as much as the French soldiers in Napoleon.   (source)
  • I wanted to become a Napoleon, that is why I killed her....Do you understand now?   (source)
  • Les femmes tricottent, as Napoleon said.   (source)
  • 'Napoleon's rule, good Father, Napoleon's rule,' put in Vassily Ivanovitch, leading an ace.   (source)
  • I waited before him for three minutes with my arms crossed A LA NAPOLEON.   (source)
  • that skeleton Napoleon, that other skeleton is Wellington;   (source)
  • What king has he not taught state, as Talma[642] taught Napoleon?   (source)
  • I shouldn't have been a Napoleon, but I might have been a major, he-he!   (source)
  • It did not perceive that it also lay in that hand which had removed Napoleon.   (source)
  • The Emperor of the French, Napoleon, even, has no better doctor.'   (source)
  • Then who reigns in France at this moment—Napoleon II?   (source)
  • Old Dantes, who was only sustained by hope, lost all hope at Napoleon's downfall.   (source)
  • A Napoleon creep under an old woman's bed!   (source)
  • Napoleon was an artillery officer, and felt the effects of this.   (source)
  • "And so you think Napoleon will manage to get an army across?" asked Boris with a smile.   (source)
  • The painful surprise of Napoleon is well known.   (source)
  • Everybody seems to imagine that being taken prisoner means being Napoleon's guest.   (source)
  • advanced a step, and folded his arms over his chest as Napoleon would have done.   (source)
  • "He!" cried the marquise: "Napoleon the type of equality!"   (source)
  • At that time there was in France a man of genius—Napoleon.   (source)
  • You have, in the first case, Napoleon; in the second, Iturbide.   (source)
  • Napoleon, under pressure from his whole army, did the same thing.   (source)
  • We would exchange Caesar for Prusias, and Napoleon for the King of Yvetot.   (source)
  • , and conducted by generals who had been under Napoleon.   (source)
  • "But nowhere in Europe is there anything like that," said Napoleon.   (source)
  • But amalgamating Napoleon with her is not diminishing her.   (source)
  • "I must make up for that in Moscow," said Napoleon.   (source)
  • —behold the court, the conquest of which was one of Napoleon's dreams.   (source)
  • We say that Napoleon wished to invade Russia and invaded it.   (source)
  • Napoleon gazed silently in that direction.   (source)
  • people were, at one and the same time, in love with the future, Liberty, and the past, Napoleon.   (source)
  • Napoleon's proclamation was as follows: Soldiers!   (source)
  • Napoleon was one of those geniuses from whom thunder darts.   (source)
  • A BAD GUIDE TO NAPOLEON; A GOOD GUIDE TO BULOW.   (source)
  • "They want more!" croaked Napoleon frowning.   (source)
  • This quivering of his left leg was a thing Napoleon was conscious of.   (source)
  • Napoleon had been denounced in the infinite and his fall had been decided on.   (source)
  • So, on the morning of Waterloo, Napoleon was content.   (source)
  • "Asks for reinforcements?" said Napoleon with an angry gesture.   (source)
  • Napoleon, without looking, pressed two fingers together and the badge was between them.   (source)
  • He accompanied Napoleon to the Island of Elba.   (source)
  • In the middle of the day Murat sent his adjutant to Napoleon to demand reinforcements.   (source)
  • Napoleon became for him the man-people as Jesus Christ is the man-God.   (source)
  • "Go away..." exclaimed Napoleon suddenly and morosely, and turned aside.   (source)
  • What amount of blame attaches to Napoleon for the loss of this battle?   (source)
  • "And let him know that I will do so!" said Napoleon, rising and pushing his cup away with his hand.   (source)
  • Wellington had only one hundred and fifty-nine mouths of fire; Napoleon had two hundred and forty.   (source)
  • Thiers, a Bonapartist, says that Napoleon's power was based on his virtue and genius.   (source)
  • Napoleon indulged in many fits of this laughter during the breakfast at Waterloo.   (source)
  • This idea of Napoleon, disdained by men, had been taken back by God.   (source)
  • Napoleon met Balashev cheerfully and amiably.   (source)
  • Had Napoleon at that same moment thought of his infantry, he would have won the battle.   (source)
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  • Napoleon Bridger, is that you?   (source)
    napoleon = another person with that name
  • 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)
    napoleon = the name of a street
  • The painter remarked to Swann that Napoleon III had eclipsed himself immediately after Odette.   (source)
    napoleon = nephew of the more famous Napoleon I; president and then Emperor of France 1848-1870
  • Why was Napoleon III a criminal when he was taken prisoner at Boulogne, and why, later on, were those criminals whom he arrested?   (source)
  • Beatrice's stepbrother was identified as Napoleon Bridger Leep.   (source)
    napoleon = another person with that name
  • Are you friends with Napoleon Bridger Leep?   (source)
  • And Roy knew he'd never see Napoleon Bridger again, unless he wanted to be seen.   (source)
  • Napoleon Bridger.   (source)
  • TWENTY-ONE Napoleon?   (source)
  • Somewhere along the Avenue Napoleon, I heard the step behind me which I knew to be Armand's.   (source)
    napoleon = the name of a street
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  • 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)
    napoleon = nephew of the more famous Napoleon I; president and then Emperor of France 1848-1870
  • NAPOLEON MOSCOW, OCTOBER 30, 1812   (source)
    napoleon = name not tracked in this novel
  • Napoleon III issues a decree and the French go to Mexico.   (source)
    napoleon = nephew of the more famous Napoleon I; president and then Emperor of France 1848-1870
  • He was walking with Mme. Verdurin, Dr. Cottard, a young man in a fez whom he failed to identify, the painter, Odette, Napoleon III and my grandfather, along a path which followed the line of the coast, and overhung the sea, now at a great height, now by a few feet only, so that they were continually going up and down; those of the party who had reached the downward slope were no longer visible to those who were still climbing; what little daylight yet remained was failing, and it seemed as though a black night was immediately to fall on them.   (source)
  • As for Napoleon III, it was to Forcheville that some vague association of ideas, then a certain modification of the Baron's usual physiognomy, and lastly the broad ribbon of the Legion of Honour across his breast, had made Swann give that name; but actually, and in everything that the person who appeared in his dream represented and recalled to him, it was indeed Forcheville.   (source)
  • Whether we speak of the migration of the peoples and the incursions of the barbarians, or of the decrees of Napoleon III, or of someone's action an hour ago in choosing one direction out of several for his walk, we are unconscious of any contradiction.   (source)
  • Equally little does this view explain why for several centuries the collective will is not withdrawn from certain rulers and their heirs, and then suddenly during a period of fifty years is transferred to the Convention, to the Directory, to Napoleon, to Alexander, to Louis XVIII, to Napoleon again, to Charles X, to Louis Philippe, to a Republican government, and to Napoleon III.   (source)
  • And I'm going to call him Napoleon because that was the question I answered best on the test.   (source)
    napoleon = an untracked name in this novel
  • As I went out, Napoleon barked at me.   (source)
  • Nappie—short for Napoleon, isn't it?   (source)
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