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  • King Baudouin invited eighty Congolese leaders to Brussels to chart a course for independence.†   (source)
  • I take a deep breath and can smell the food: turkey and stuffing, sweet potatoes, brussels sprouts, pumpkin pie.†   (source)
  • A youth hostel in Brussels.†   (source)
  • She'd hidden it in the back of the freezer in a jar, inside a box of Brussels sprouts.†   (source)
  • …a financial dead end and the remnants of a once-noble family in Japan, he found himself in the middle of America's Depression and on the move again, with eight kids and a wife this time,working his way down the California coast picking prunes, peaches, Brussels sprouts, sending his children into the orchards like any migrant worker's family, hoping their combined earnings would leave a little left over after everyone was fed and the cars gassed up for the next day's search for work.†   (source)
  • A successful marketing foray produced the first Brussels sprouts I had found in Iran and I combined them with leeks and carrots, braising them lightly.†   (source)
  • Then before that we lived in Brussels.†   (source)
  • The kitchen was as warm as this bank and at one end was a great pile of vegetables ready for the hrududu in the morning—cabbages, brussels sprouts and parsnips.†   (source)
  • Tormented by the fear of dying without having sent Amaranta Ursula to Brussels, he worked as he had never done, and instead of one he made three weekly raffles.†   (source)
  • International baggage claim in the Brussels airport was large and airy, with multiple carousels circling endlessly.†   (source)
  • The international basis for this is the Salvage Convention of 1910 (Brussels), which codified the transnational nature of admiralty and salvage law.†   (source)
  • Carlo's daughter was there, the youngest of his three children, a beautiful spindly girl, fifteen, who lived with her mother in Brussels.†   (source)
  • This whole night will be dealership talk, and meanwhile I've got Melanie and Brock at a sidewalk cafe in Brussels with her estranged husband fast approaching and the last thing in the world I want to think about is sales figures and cut-rate financing techniques.†   (source)
  • Clean your rooms, do your chores, eat your brussels sprouts?†   (source)
  • They wondered if the plane had turned around in the night and they were in Brussels or Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • "Have you called Jimmy T over in Brussels?" interrupted the ambassador.†   (source)
  • We were able to identify an agent at NATO headquarters in Brussels.†   (source)
  • They rolled through Brussels and Antwerp.†   (source)
  • He flew from New York and arrived in Brussels on Christmas Eve.†   (source)
  • Immediate options are Prague, Venice, Budapest, Amsterdam, Brussels, London, and Berlin.†   (source)
  • A year ago we had to send a man into our Brussels R and D facility.†   (source)
  • RUE DU LOMBARD, BRUSSELS   (source)
  • Why not Madrid or Brussels or New York?†   (source)
  • In late December, Orange, de facto master of the Low Countries, entered Brussels in triumph, having been invited there by a Committee of Eighteen.†   (source)
  • I got to Brussels in the late afternoon.†   (source)
  • The European Union has two Parliament buildings – one in Brussels and a second in Strasbourg, France.
  • Frank, what leaders are you talking about, getting invited to Brussels?†   (source)
  • She's about to barf her Brussels sprouts!"†   (source)
  • Steam rose from the boiling potatoes and the simmering brussels sprouts.†   (source)
  • This is not Brussels or Moscow or Macon, Georgia.†   (source)
  • "Brussels will not approve," said the first man grinning.†   (source)
  • She said frost improved the flavor of the cabbage and Brussels sprouts.†   (source)
  • First he had to go from Brussels to Kigali, the capital of Rwanda.†   (source)
  • Casset is flying over to Brussels in the morning.†   (source)
  • Two months later Amaranta Ursula went to Brussels.†   (source)
  • It wasn't a twentynine-year-old woman from the banlieues and her friend from Brussels.†   (source)
  • "Back to Brussels," interrupted the colonel.†   (source)
  • Most are conquered; Brussels and Prague are still being difficult.†   (source)
  • I didn't breathe until we had pulled away from the airport and were halfway across Brussels.†   (source)
  • Her male accomplice is a Belgian national from the Molenbeek district of Brussels.†   (source)
  • Did you really assassinate Teagarten in Brussels?†   (source)
  • Our sources have Cain in Brussels, not Zurich, at the same time-eleven days ago.†   (source)
  • In his panic, he pulled the masks off Burton and Teagarten in Brussels.†   (source)
  • It would be no easy feat in a city like Brussels, a city of irregular streets and dense population.†   (source)
  • Paul-the one from Brussels-didn't see anything.†   (source)
  • This was Brussels, after all, the crime capital of Western Europe.†   (source)
  • London, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome-they'd all be better for us than Paris, but the best is Moscow.†   (source)
  • The time factor removes it from having any bearing on Brussels or Zurich.†   (source)
  • About you and Brussels and our whole thing.†   (source)
  • Six bridges span the wide industrial canal that separates the center of Brussels from Molenbeek.†   (source)
  • That I'm underground here in Paris, or Brussels, or Amsterdam.†   (source)
  • What about a couple of generals, one in Brussels, the other at the Pentagon?†   (source)
  • It's why you weren't told about Brussels.†   (source)
  • My God, look what happened to Teagarten in Brussels, Armbruster in Washington!†   (source)
  • "The case for Brussels is airtight," insisted Knowlton firmly.†   (source)
  • "He was right," agreed Marie, "but he's not in Paris, or Brussels, or Amsterdam."†   (source)
  • He's the connection to Brussels, to Teagarten at NATO.†   (source)
  • What's this about Brussels eleven days ago?†   (source)
  • Also, our sources have some input to offer, although it's not in conflict with Brussels or Zurich.†   (source)
  • The Committee set up a kind of Brussels Commune.†   (source)
  • I felt afresh the drama of airplane travel: London vanished, Africa to come, Brussels now.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile, in Brussels and Antwerp signs of decay in the system had appeared.†   (source)
  • The vegetables in lidded serving dishes, or on platters of faded Spode, were passed up and down, and such was the collective inattention or the polite desire to conceal a lack of appetite that most ended with roast potatoes and potato salad, Brussels sprouts and beetroot, and lettuce leaves foundering in gravy.†   (source)
  • He finds a knife and scores the onions, as he had once been taught to do with Brussels sprouts in the Ratliffs' kitchen.†   (source)
  • I peeled potatoes and put them on to boil, then went out in the garden and picked some brussels sprouts off the stalk.†   (source)
  • Now, I have been around: the racial rioting in South Africa, hosting embassy parties in Brazzaville, shopping in Paris and Brussels, the game animals in Kenya, I have seen it all.†   (source)
  • We read he's building himself an actual castle with spires and a moat near Brussels, to provide a respite, I guess, from his villas in Paris and Spain and Italy.†   (source)
  • Gracie shouting, "Brussels is surreal.†   (source)
  • Brussels sprouts?†   (source)
  • Finally, she took her plate from the table and sat on the dining room floor, cackling with delight over the Brussels sprouts, calling them "Betty's little cabbages.†   (source)
  • Neither Amaranta Ursula in Brussels nor Jose Arcadio in Rome ever heard about those insignificant misfortunes.†   (source)
  • Nora explained tersely that she needed me to fly out the next day, carrying cash to be dropped off in Brussels.†   (source)
  • Gaston had returned to Brussels.†   (source)
  • I had done exactly as I had been instructed, checking my bag in Chicago through Paris, where I had to switch planes to take a short flight to Brussels.†   (source)
  • In the meantime he maintained a correspondence with his partners in Brussels which resembled that of Fernanda with the invisible doctors, and he finally convinced them to ship the first airplane under the care of an expert mechanic, who would assemble it in the nearest port and fly it to Macondo.†   (source)
  • He had promised her to send her to finish her studies in Brussels, in accord with a custom established during the time of the banana company, and that illusion had brought him to attempt to revive the lands devastated by the deluge.†   (source)
  • But was he aware of the flash drive that lay at the base of a power pole in a pastoral suburb of Brussels called Dilbeek?†   (source)
  • In one of his first letters he told her that his Partners had actually sent the airplane, but that a shipping agent in Brussels had sent it by mistake to Tanganyika, where it was delivered to the scattered tribe of the Makondos.†   (source)
  • On the ninth of August, before they received the first letter from Brussels, Jose Arcadio Segundo was speaking to Aureliano in Melquiades' room and, without realizing it, he said: "Always remember that they were more than three thousand and that they were thrown into the sea.†   (source)
  • From Dilbeek it moved to the city center of Brussels, where it spent a restful evening in a rather good hotel.†   (source)
  • He worked part-time in a copy center in central Brussels, but like many young men who lived in Molenbeek, his primary occupation was radical Islam.†   (source)
  • And then she forgot about the manuscripts, went to the door with a dance step, and from there she threw Aureliano a kiss with the tips of her fingers as she had said good-bye to her father on the afternoon when they sent her to Brussels.†   (source)
  • The correspondence reached such a degree of mutual suspicion that Gaston decided not to write again and he began to suggest the possibility of a quick trip to Brussels to clear things up and return with the airplane.†   (source)
  • Someone in the cellars learned that Teagarten in Brussels has an access fax code directly to DeSole bypassing routine confidential traffic.†   (source)
  • One of the militants was later identified as Nabil Awad, a twenty-four-year-old Jordanian citizen who resided in the Molenbeek district of Brussels.†   (source)
  • Fernanda was against the trip until the last moment, scandalized by the idea that Brussels was so close to Paris and its perdition, but she calmed down with the letter that Father Angel gave her addressed to a boardinghouse run by nuns for Catholic young ladies where Amaranta Ursula promised to stay until her studies were completed.†   (source)
  • It contains payment for Armbruster's tragic confrontation in Georgetown and Teagarten's equally tragic assassination in Brussels.†   (source)
  • Though scarcely a mile from the center of Brussels, it was a decidedly rural suburb ringed by small farms.†   (source)
  • And we could have saved you the time it took to build the Brussels file, if we'd been told about that.†   (source)
  • I want you to include in those sketchy details that among the personal effects found on Bourne's body was a road map of Brussels and its environs.†   (source)
  • It meant that an empty can of Belgian beer had been hidden in a gorse bush at the edge of a small pasture not far from the city center of Brussels.†   (source)
  • As he lost his voice, however, and realized that in a short time he would be unable to bear the pain, he began to understand that it was not through raffled pigs and goats that his daughter would get to Brussels, so he conceived the idea of organizing the fabulous raffle of the lands destroyed by the deluge, which could easily be restored by a person with the money to do so.†   (source)
  • But when he saw that Amaranta Ursula was determined to organize a commission for public improvement and even laughed at him when he hinted at the possibility of returning, he understood that things were going to take a long time and he reestablished contact with his forgotten partners in Brussels, thinking that it was just as well to be a pioneer in the Caribbean as in Africa.†   (source)
  • Then, in the morning, it boarded the 8:52 Eurostar at Brussels Midi, and by ten o'clock it was moving along a platform at St. Pancras International in London.†   (source)
  • Teagarten's assassination proves it unless you want to concede that Bourne actually blew up that car outside of Brussels.†   (source)
  • They took a room at the Terrasse on the rue de Maistre, registering as a married couple from Brussels.†   (source)
  • You didn't want to believe London or Brussels, either, or a commander of the Sixth Fleet or the keeper of the covert keys in Langley.†   (source)
  • The Central Intelligence executive suddenly rushed limping through the door, unused to the cane provided him by G-2, SHAPE, Brussels, last night when he had commandeered a military transport to Andrews Field, Maryland.†   (source)
  • Chased from their original Afghan sanctuary, they had found new spaces to operate in Yemen, Iraq, Syria, Libya, the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt, and a district of Brussels called Molenbeek.†   (source)
  • When you think about it, Brussels was the beginning of the end, and at the end, David used that false accusation to tell Marie he was still alive, to tell Peter Holland that he was still alive.†   (source)
  • He had returned to Washington on a military jet out of Brussels in the morning, but had signed out of Langley at 1:22 in the afternoon, leaving no telephone number-not even an emergency number-where he could be reached.†   (source)
  • Mordecai monitored its heavily encrypted transmission from a hotel room in central Brussels and routed the signal onto a secure network, which allowed the other members of the team to watch it, too.†   (source)
  • Among the names that featured most prominently in this hidden trove was Nabil Awad, originally from the northern Jordanian city of Irbid, lately of the Molenbeek district of Brussels.†   (source)
  • Then what was Brussels?†   (source)
  • "Have you any idea what a Senate investigating committee will say a couple of weeks or months down ' over to Paris, which is as close to Brussels as New York is to Chicago-"†   (source)
  • Among the personal effects found on the slain assassin's body was a map of Brussels and the surrounding area with the town of Anderlecht circled in red.†   (source)
  • His movements were unpredictable, Paris one day, Brussels or London the next, Amman when he needed to consult with Fareed Barakat, Jerusalem when he needed the touch of his wife and children.†   (source)
  • Brussels or Zurich.†   (source)
  • On a side street in Anderlecht, three miles south of Brussels, a military sedan bearing the flags of a four-star general officer pulled up to the curb in front of a sidewalk café.†   (source)
  • After leaving the safe house, Gabriel had told Carter about his unlikely partnership with Paul Rousseau and Fareed Barakat, and about an ISIS project manager in London named Jalal Nasser, and about an ISIS talent spotter in Brussels named Nabil Awad.†   (source)
  • DeSole, Brussels … Medusa.†   (source)
  • Finally, at six, they watched as he left the shop for the last time, trailed by the meekest-looking soul in all of Brussels and by a couple—a tall tweedy man and a woman with childbearing hips—who could scarcely keep their hands off one another.†   (source)
  • You know about … Brussels?†   (source)
  • He spent that evening at the safe house in Seraincourt in the company of his team, and in the morning, with Mikhail at his side and Eli Lavon watching his back, he boarded a train at the Gare du Nord and headed for Brussels.†   (source)
  • He knows DeSole's death was no accident-a man with night blindness doesn't take a five-hour drive at four o'clock in the morning-and he also knows that we know a lot more about DeSole and Brussels than we're telling him.†   (source)
  • In Brussels?†   (source)
  • AND THUS COMMENCED THE GREAT WAIT-Or SO it was referred to by all those who endured the appalling period, roughly seventy-two hours in length, during which the encrypted message sat untouched in its little aluminum sarcophagus, at the base of a power pole on the Kerselaarstraat, in the Brussels suburb of Dilbeek.†   (source)
  • Especially in Brussels.†   (source)
  • It was a modern piece of equipment; it was like the boards I had seen in the airports of London and Brussels.†   (source)
  • They controlled the police, dictated all decisions of the Estates-General, and threw out many holders of high position in Brussels.†   (source)
  • From 1578 until Alexander Karnese took Brussels back again for the Emperor in March 1585, Tristero kept up what amounted to a guerrilla war against his cousin—if Hinckart was his cousin.†   (source)
  • The Brussels Exhibition Issue of 1958 included in its aerial view of the U.S. pavilion at Brussels, and set slightly off from the other tiny fairgoers, the unmistakable silhouette of a horse and rider.†   (source)
  • He had married some years earlier a young lady from Brussels who had brought him a substantialdot .†   (source)
  • I was going to school in Brussels when she died.†   (source)
  • "It isn't chic, but the food is all right" "Better than you eat in Liege" "Brussels, you mean."†   (source)
  • A thing the tradesmen send up chops and brussels sprouts in?†   (source)
  • Among the property which she bequeathed to him was a house on the Avenue Louise in Brussels.†   (source)
  • They tiptoed from room to room, afraid to speak above a whisper and gazing with a kind of awe at the unbelievable luxury, at the beds with their feather mattresses, the looking-glasses, the horsehair sofa, the Brussels carpet, the lithograph of Queen Victoria over the drawing-room mantelpiece.†   (source)
  • She had been to Brussels; she had been to Paris but only for a flying visit to see an aunt who was ill.†   (source)
  • I arrived in Brussels late that night.†   (source)
  • Across Paris and out of Paris …. by the Brussels road.†   (source)
  • My mother has lived in Brussels or Vienna and never let me go to her.†   (source)
  • Why do you not realize a six months', a year's advance even, and retire to Brussels?†   (source)
  • Many persons think so; and Brussels is full of fine people and ladies of fashion.†   (source)
  • To Brussels, if you like; it is the nearest frontier.†   (source)
  • They did not hear the noise which disturbed our little congregation at Brussels.†   (source)
  • Premises at Brussels, Ostend, Vienna, and Budapest.†   (source)
  • We've got two in Brussels, one in Ostend, one in Vienna, and two in Budapest.†   (source)
  • The Emperor's proclamation from Avesnes had been distributed everywhere plentifully in Brussels.†   (source)
  • The next day they stopped at the Hotel de Flandre, at Brussels.†   (source)
  • Jos was not the only man in Brussels seized with panic that day.†   (source)
  • You would be charmed with the gaiety, the vivacity, the happy air of Brussels.†   (source)
  • We can go to Brussels, Liege, Aix-la-Chapelle; then up the Rhine to Strasburg.†   (source)
  • No more firing was heard at Brussels—the pursuit rolled miles away.†   (source)
  • Indeed, he had driven thither immediately after his arrival at Brussels.†   (source)
  • "And you'll see her safe out of Brussels in the event of a defeat?"†   (source)
  • Is there to be nobody left in Brussels to protect us poor women?†   (source)
  • But he was profoundly mortified by the lady's inattention to him during their stay at Brussels.†   (source)
  • This lover was a native of Brussels, and a Belgian hussar.†   (source)
  • Brussels!" cried out Amelia with a sudden shock and start.†   (source)
  • The Belgian State Railway has a trick of letting the French trains miss their connections at Brussels.†   (source)
  • It was praised in Paris and Brussels and Cambridge as much as in New York, for its insight and for "the clarity and to perhaps be unscientifically enthusiastic, the sheer delight and style of its presentation," as Professor Berkeley Wurtz put it; which may be indicated by quoting the first paragraph of the paper: In a preliminary publication, I have reported a marked qualitative destructive effect of the radiations from radium emanations on Bacteriophage-anti-Shiga.†   (source)
  • There was good Brussels carpet on the floor, rich in dull red and lemon shades, and representing large jardinières filled with gorgeous, impossible flowers.†   (source)
  • From Holland we went to Belgium, and made a hasty trip through that country, stopping at Brussels, where we visited the battlefield of Waterloo.†   (source)
  • —along the unfamiliar ways of the Brussels station and to scramble up the high steps of the moving train.†   (source)
  • Thinking that his brother had run away with Christine Daae, Philippe had dashed in pursuit of him along the Brussels Road, where he knew that everything was prepared for the elopement.†   (source)
  • Now, on the Continent, there are two special heart cure places, Nauheim and Spa, and to reach both of these baths from England if in order to ensure a short sea passage, you come by Calais—you have to make the connection at Brussels.†   (source)
  • The point, by the way, about the missing of the connections of the Calais boat trains at Brussels was that the shortest possible sea journey is frequently of great importance to sufferers from the heart.†   (source)
  • Ney borrows a horse, leaps upon it, and without hat, cravat, or sword, places himself across the Brussels road, stopping both English and French.†   (source)
  • The criminal advocate, Monsieur Philippe Lheulier, nevertheless, knows a little Hebrew, which he learned in that matter of the Jews of the Rue Kantersten, at Brussels.†   (source)
  • 'Have you just returned from Brussels?'†   (source)
  • In the charming city of Brussels—his first stopping-place after leaving Paris—he asked a great many questions about the street-cars, and took extreme satisfaction in the reappearance of this familiar symbol of American civilization; but he was also greatly struck with the beautiful Gothic tower of the Hotel de Ville, and wondered whether it would not be possible to "get up" something like it in San Francisco.†   (source)
  • I believed him still at Brussels.†   (source)
  • In the year 1775, M. de Malesherbes, speaking in the name of the Cour des Aides, said to Louis XIV:— *d [Footnote d: See "Memoires pour servir a l'Histoire du Droit Public de la France en matiere d'impots," p.654, printed at Brussels in 1779.†   (source)
  • There were Master Loys Roelof, alderman of the city of Louvain; Messire Clays d'Etuelde, alderman of Brussels; Messire Paul de Baeust, Sieur de Voirmizelle, President of Flanders; Master Jehan Coleghens, burgomaster of the city of Antwerp; Master George de la Moere, first alderman of the kuere of the city of Ghent; Master Gheldolf van der Hage, first alderman of the ~parchous~ of the said town; and the Sieur de Bierbecque, and Jehan Pinnock, and Jehan Dymaerzelle, etc., etc., etc.;…†   (source)
  • He relates that he met at Brussels Rochefort, the AME DAMNEE of the cardinal disguised as a Capuchin, and that this cursed Rochefort, thanks to his disguise, had tricked Monsieur de Laigues, like a ninny as he is.†   (source)
  • This rascal of composite order was, in all probability, some Fleming from Lille, in Flanders, a Frenchman in Paris, a Belgian at Brussels, being comfortably astride of both frontiers.†   (source)
  • It is at Brussels that the most beer is consumed, at Stockholm the most brandy, at Madrid the most chocolate, at Amsterdam the most gin, at London the most wine, at Constantinople the most coffee, at Paris the most absinthe; there are all the useful notions.†   (source)
  • One thing is certain, that on the day after the battle, a cuirassier and his horse were found dead among the woodwork of the scales for vehicles at Mont-Saint-Jean, at the very point where the four roads from Nivelles, Genappe, La Hulpe, and Brussels meet and intersect each other.†   (source)
  • And now let us leave Mademoiselle Danglars and her friend pursuing their way to Brussels, and return to poor Andrea Cavalcanti, so inopportunely interrupted in his rise to fortune.†   (source)
  • During breakfast, it was said that Wellington had been to a ball two nights before, in Brussels, at the Duchess of Richmond's; and Soult, a rough man of war, with a face of an archbishop, said, "The ball takes place to-day.†   (source)
  • VIVIE [to Praed, with deep reproach] Can you find no better example of your beauty and romance than Brussels to talk to me about?†   (source)
  • Many said your father had only to show himself to crush the charge against him; many others said he would not appear; while some asserted that they had seen him start for Brussels; and others went to the police-office to inquire if he had taken out a passport.†   (source)
  • Liz was saving money then to take a house for herself in Brussels; and she thought we two could save faster than one.†   (source)
  • The elevation of this escarpment can still be measured by the height of the two knolls of the two great sepulchres which enclose the road from Genappe to Brussels: one, the English tomb, is on the left; the other, the German tomb, is on the right.†   (source)
  • The road was so narrow at the Braine-l'Alleud entrance that a passer-by was crushed by a cart, as is proved by a stone cross which stands near the cemetery, and which gives the name of the dead, Monsieur Bernard Debrye, Merchant of Brussels, and the date of the accident, February, 1637.†   (source)
  • The house in Brussels was real high class: a much better place for a woman to be in than the factory where Anne Jane got poisoned.†   (source)
  • One of them [to Frank] is love's young dream in any shape or form: the other [to Praed] is the romance and beauty of life, especially Ostend and the gaiety of Brussels.†   (source)
  • The Hanoverian hussars of Cumberland, a whole regiment, with Colonel Hacke at its head, who was destined to be tried later on and cashiered, had turned bridle in the presence of the fray, and had fled to the forest of Soignes, sowing defeat all the way to Brussels.†   (source)
  • Then he mounted his horse, advanced beyond Rossomme, and selected for his post of observation a contracted elevation of turf to the right of the road from Genappe to Brussels, which was his second station during the battle.†   (source)
  • From Vert-Coucou to Groentendael, for a distance of nearly two leagues in the direction of Brussels, according to the testimony of eye-witnesses who are still alive, the roads were encumbered with fugitives.†   (source)
  • …Vieux, that Hercules graduated at the Polytechnic School, wounded at the moment when he was beating in with an axe the door of La Haie-Sainte under the downright fire of the English barricade which barred the angle of the road from Genappe to Brussels; Marcognet's division caught between the infantry and the cavalry, shot down at the very muzzle of the guns amid the grain by Best and Pack, put to the sword by Ponsonby; his battery of seven pieces spiked; the Prince of Saxe-Weimar…†   (source)
  • Margate packets were sailing every day, filled with men of fashion and ladies of note, on their way to Brussels and Ghent.†   (source)
  • To go straight to the centre of the Allies' line, to make a breach in the enemy, to cut them in two, to drive the British half back on Hal, and the Prussian half on Tongres, to make two shattered fragments of Wellington and Blucher, to carry Mont-Saint-Jean, to seize Brussels, to hurl the German into the Rhine, and the Englishman into the sea.†   (source)
  • The attack of the right wing of the French on Papelotte was calculated, in fact, to overthrow the English left, to cut off the road to Brussels, to bar the passage against possible Prussians, to force Mont-Saint-Jean, to turn Wellington back on Hougomont, thence on Braine-l'Alleud, thence on Hal; nothing easier.†   (source)
  • A certain ball which a noble Duchess gave at Brussels on the 15th of June in the above-named year is historical.†   (source)
  • Of this defeat he and a vast number of other persons in Brussels and Belgium did not make the slightest doubt.†   (source)
  • The distress of the people, the laborers without bread, the last Prince de Conde engulfed in the shadows, Brussels expelling the Nassaus as Paris did the Bourbons, Belgium offering herself to a French Prince and giving herself to an English Prince, the Russian hatred of Nicolas, behind us the demons of the South, Ferdinand in Spain, Miguel in Portugal, the earth quaking in Italy, Metternich extending his hand over Bologna, France treating Austria sharply at Ancona, at the North no one…†   (source)
  • The author of this book has seen, with his own eyes, eight leagues distant from Brussels,—there are relics of the Middle Ages there which are attainable for everybody,—at the Abbey of Villers, the hole of the oubliettes, in the middle of the field which was formerly the courtyard of the cloister, and on the banks of the Thil, four stone dungeons, half under ground, half under the water.†   (source)
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