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  • The formalities at the airport at The Hague provided no problem.†   (source)
  • John Quincy Adams—until his death at eighty in the Capitol—held more important offices and participated in more important events than anyone in the history of our nation, as Minister to the Hague, Emissary to England, Minister to Prussia, State Senator, United States Senator, Minister to Russia, Head of the American Mission to negotiate peace with England, Minister to England, Secretary of State, President of the United States and member of the House of Representatives.†   (source)
  • By now there'll have been mass executions in The Hague and Amsterdam and Amersfoort.†   (source)
  • The truck had no springs and bounced roughly over the bomb-pitted streets of The Hague.†   (source)
  • I wangled myself a long weekend and got to The Hague early on a Friday evening.†   (source)
  • The furniture included pieces purchased originally for the houses at Amsterdam and The Hague.†   (source)
  • He said that he couldn't know who would be going to The Hague."†   (source)
  • A letter arrived from William Vans Murray, who had replaced John Quincy as minister at The Hague.†   (source)
  • As the new year commenced, Adams was at The Hague audaciously demanding a "categorical answer."†   (source)
  • We used the Soviet Embassy at The Hague.†   (source)
  • He knew The Hague quite well from the war, and he tried to work out where they were heading.†   (source)
  • We're flying to• The Hague tomorrow morning at nine forty-five.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Horst, with resignation, scratching an eyebrow — dime-sized bruises on the backs of his hands—"that was the only time my father ever took me with him on a business trip, that time at The Hague.†   (source)
  • I had last seen Pickwick sitting between two soldiers on the prison bus in The Hague, his poor bald head bruised and bleeding.†   (source)
  • He had apparently become ill in his cell and been taken by car to the municipal hospital in The Hague.†   (source)
  • Her name was Trixie Greydanus, and she lived in a hofie—that's like an almshouse, an old people's home—in Delft, just south of The Hague.†   (source)
  • I remembered Father's words to the Gestapo chief in The Hague: "I will open my door to anyone in need…."†   (source)
  • Then she said that yes, perhaps she could help me, and asked if I could come to Holland, to The Hague.†   (source)
  • Nights when Betsie and I reported to sick call, we left the Bible with Mrs. Wielmaker, a saintly Roman Catholic woman from The Hague who could render the Dutch words in German, French, Latin, or Greek.†   (source)
  • Schongarth called The Hague and sent a frightened security service officer to get his boss, Munt, out of bed.†   (source)
  • We knew about The Hague and Amsterdam and Amersfoort too, but we didn't know the numbers then, of course.†   (source)
  • Wolk, in Rotterdam, explained (with some difficulty) that because of attempts by the resistance to liberate his prisoners, he had transferred his death candidates to The Hague.†   (source)
  • Blomkvist explained how Fälldin had reacted to the information about Zalachenko and how he had travelled to The Hague to interview Janeryd.†   (source)
  • The plane landed at Schiphol airport at 4:50, and by 6:30 he was checking in to a small hotel about fifteen minutes' walk from The Hague's Centraal station.†   (source)
  • From The Hague, John Adams promised to be with them in a matter of days, but warned that there could be no lingering in London.†   (source)
  • Since Prussia had no minister in London or Paris, but only at The Hague, Adams was needed there without delay or the treaty would come to nothing.†   (source)
  • As it happened, William Short was writing to Jefferson from The Hague at the same time, and his descriptions of events greatly distressed Jefferson.†   (source)
  • She immediately dispatched a letter to John at The Hague reporting her arrival and her extreme desire to see him.†   (source)
  • At The Hague, as Adams came to understand, there was little sympathy for the American cause, nor much hope for decisive action.†   (source)
  • In January, again in a private letter, came word from John Marshall by way of The Hague warning that the mission might not be received by the French Directory.†   (source)
  • At The Hague, Adams called first on the French ambassador, the young Duc de La Vauguyon, to inform him of his plan to present the memorial as soon as possible.†   (source)
  • Adams was needed at The Hague to exchange ratification of the treaty with Prussia, the one European trade agreement that he and Jefferson, for all their efforts, had succeeded in accomplishing.†   (source)
  • On Friday, May 4, 1781, at the Binnenhof, the Inner Courts, at The Hague, Adams called on the Baron van Lynden van Hemmen, president of the States-General for that week, and presented his memorial.†   (source)
  • Not until the government at The Hague took it upon itself to recognize the United States would anyone in the government be permitted to receive Adams officially.†   (source)
  • Certain that full Dutch recognition was at hand, Adams and Charles Dumas purchased what they anticipated would be the American embassy at The Hague, a "large elegant" house on the Fluwelen Burgwal—Street of the Velvet Makers—beside one of the city's most beautiful canals.†   (source)
  • On Monday, April 22, at the Huis ten Bosch Palace at The Hague, Adams was received by His Most Serene Highness the Prince of Orange,William V, and his wife Princess Wilhelmina in a ceremony of formal recognition.†   (source)
  • The news that the Dutch Republic had recognized the United States did not reach Philadelphia until September, arriving by a Dutch ship named Heer At noon, Tuesday, October 8, 1782, Adams arrived at the State House at The Hague to sign a treaty of commerce with the Dutch Republic.†   (source)
  • They were gone five weeks, stopping first at The Hague for the signing ceremony on August 8, then moving on at a pace sufficient to see just about everything—Rotterdam, Delft, Leyden, Haarlem, Amsterdam, Utrecht—with Abigail supplying colorful comment in her letters.†   (source)
  • Through February and March, despite the weather, Adams kept on the move, traveling back and forth between Amsterdam, Leyden, and The Hague, conferring with as many of his Dutch friends and contacts as possible.†   (source)
  • From continued discussion with Gerry at Quincy and from new dispatches from William Vans Murray at The Hague, Adams became convinced that Gerry's conduct in Paris had not only been proper, but courageous.†   (source)
  • He went personally to the individual residences at The Hague for the delegations of eighteen cities in the province of Holland, each of which, as he explained to Congress, could be considered an independent republic.†   (source)
  • For a man of such strong feelings and great inner tensions, these were days of extreme stress, during which he remained uncharacteristically silent, as Benjamin Waterhouse would recall in a telling description of Adams the morning he set off for The Hague, nine miles distant.†   (source)
  • I never shall forget the day and the circumstances of Mr. Adams's going from Leyden to The Hague with the memorial to their High Mightinesses, the States-General…… He came down into the front room where we were—his secretary, two sons, and myself—his coach and four at the door, and he, full-dressed, even to his sword, when with energetic countenance and protuberant eyes, and holding his memorial in his hand, said to us in a solemn tone, "Young men !†   (source)
  • It was carried by a courier to the second-floor Senate Chamber, where an astonished Vice President interrupted the business on the floor to read it aloud: Always disposed and ready to embrace every plausible appearance of probability of preserving or restoring tranquility, I nominate William Vans Murray, our minister resident at The Hague, to be minister plenipotentiary of the United States to the French Republic.†   (source)
  • If they avoid your company and conversation it is a more unfavorable symptom than any you have mentioned, and shows clearly that your public character should have been concealed 'til your address had paved the way for its being acknowledged…… None of your letters take the least notice of the French ambassador at The Hague.†   (source)
  • Remember this day, for this day I go to The Hague to put seed in the ground that may produce good or evil—God knows which"—and putting the papers in his side pocket, he stepped into his coach and drove off alone, leaving us, his juniors, solemnized in thought and anxious, for he had hardly spoken to us for several days before—such was his inexpressible solitude.†   (source)
  • And when the reports of Leamas' first interrogation in The Hague reached the Praesidium, do you suppose Comrade Mundt threw his away unread?†   (source)
  • What Peters wrote down now would provide the background for this evening's telegram to Moscow, while at the Soviet Embassy in The Hague the girls would sit up all night telegraphing the verbatim transcript on hourly schedules.†   (source)
  • When the first reports came in from Peters in The Hague, Mundt had only to look at the dates of Leamas' visits to Copenhagen and Helsinki to realize that the whole thing was a plant—a plant to discredit Mundt himself.†   (source)
  • We have him to thank for the Hague Conventions, superior moral realities that will abide.†   (source)
  • They spoke of his splendid house in The Hague and his villa in Scheveningen.†   (source)
  • We went in this way as far as Rotterdam, and later went to The Hague, where the Peace Conference was then in session, and where we were kindly received by the American representatives.†   (source)
  • This turned out to be the Honorable Thornton Hancock, of Boston, ex-minister to The Hague, author of an erudite history of the Middle Ages and the last of a distinguished, patriotic, and brilliant family.†   (source)
  • Now that he was once again at work upon his essay on Vermeer, he wanted to return, for a few days at least, to The Hague, to Dresden, to Brunswick.†   (source)
  • You will find parallel cases, if you consult my index, in Andover in '77, and there was something of the sort at The Hague last year.†   (source)
  • Nor was their belief much shaken by repeated intelligence which came over in course of time, that an old man who wore the tie of his neckcloth under one ear, and who was very well known to be an Englishman, consorted with the Dutchmen on the quaint banks of the canals of the Hague and in the drinking-shops of Amsterdam, under the style and designation of Mynheer von Flyntevynge.†   (source)
  • Set out for Naples, the Hague, or St. Petersburg—calm countries, where the point of honor is better understood than among our hot-headed Parisians.†   (source)
  • In essence, the year before, the royal houses of Holland, Austria, and England had signed a treaty of alliance at The Hague, aiming to wrest the Spanish crown from King Philip V and to place it on the head of an archduke whom they prematurely dubbed King Charles III.†   (source)
  • …Zee or the Scheld, Others as comers and goers at Gibraltar or the Dardanelles, Others sternly push their way through the northern winter-packs, Others descend or ascend the Obi or the Lena, Others the Niger or the Congo, others the Indus, the Burampooter and Cambodia, Others wait steam'd up ready to start in the ports of Australia, Wait at Liverpool, Glasgow, Dublin, Marseilles, Lisbon, Naples, Hamburg, Bremen, Bordeaux, the Hague, Copenhagen, Wait at Valparaiso, Rio Janeiro, Panama.†   (source)
  • I traversed all Russia; I was a long time an inn-holder's servant at Riga, the same at Rostock, at Vismar, at Leipzig, at Cassel, at Utrecht, at Leyden, at the Hague, at Rotterdam.†   (source)
  • After we had staid four months in Hamburgh, I went from thence overland to the Hague, where embarking in the packet, I arrived in London the 10th of January 1705, after ten years and nine months absence from England.†   (source)
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