Napoleon Bonaparte

in a sentence

Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young.  (source) Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game, 1977

I saw the Pantheon, and Napoleon's tomb.  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin, 2000

The men referred to him by a host of nicknames, including the Animal, the Big Flag, Little Napoleon, and, most often, the Bird, a name chosen because it carried no negative connotation that could get the POWs beaten.  (source) Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken, 2010

Then he presented himself to Sofia as General Mack had presented himself to Napoleon, having let the Russian army slip through his grasp.  (source) Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow, 2016

NAPOLEON Bonaparte's adjutant rode full gallop with this menacing letter to Murat.  (source) Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869

The Lord of the Dead resembled pictures I'd seen of Adolph Hitler, or Napoleon, or the terrorist leaders who direct suicide bombers.  (source) Rick Riordan, The Lightning Thief, 2005

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) Steve Lopez, The Soloist, 1995

As Napoleon once said, 'What is history, but a fable agreed upon?'  (source) Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, 2003

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) Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, 1969

The coat of arms from the door of Napoleon's coronation carriage hung on the wall in the study.  (source) John Berendt, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, 1994

Think what Ford, Edison, Napoleon Bonaparte, and Julius Caesar would do.†  (source) Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward, Angel, 1929

Maybe Napoleon.  (source) Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See, 2014

You talk as if you thought you was Napoleon Bonaparte.†  (source) Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, 1894

Beatrice's stepbrother was identified as Napoleon Bridger Leep.  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

Somewhere along the Avenue Napoleon, I heard the step behind me which I knew to be Armand's.  (source) Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, 1976

'Gentlemen,' concluded Napoleon, 'I will give you the same toast as before, but in a different form.  (source) George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945

The painter remarked to Swann that Napoleon III had eclipsed himself immediately after Odette.  (source) Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, 1913

Napoleon III issues a decree and the French go to Mexico.  (source) Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869

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) Malcolm Gladwell, Blink, 2005

Are you friends with Napoleon Bridger Leep?  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

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) Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, 1976

Napoleon snuffed deeply at them and pronounced them to be Snowball's.  (source) George Orwell, Animal Farm, 1945

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) Marcel Proust, Swann's Way, 1913

NAPOLEON MOSCOW, OCTOBER 30, 1812  (source) Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace, 1869

And Roy knew he'd never see Napoleon Bridger again, unless he wanted to be seen.  (source) Carl Hiassen, Hoot, 2002

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) Anne Rice, Interview with the Vampire, 1976