Versaillesin a sentence
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Today, Versailles is one of France's most popular tourist attractions.
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Let me tell you, Versailles is a small, small town.† (source)
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They wandered through the house like little children on a tour of Versailles.† (source)
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We went past the Villas at Versailles, which, if anything, looked even more expensive.† (source)
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There's a religious historian I know who lives near Versailles.† (source)
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By dusk they are west of Versailles.† (source)
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You could have powdered her and drawn a beauty mark on her face and she might have been a lady-in-waiting at Versailles with her white skin and pink checks, her stammering gaiety.† (source)
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The school had been largely rebuilt with a massive bequest from an oil family some years before in a peculiar style of Puritan grandeur, as though Versailles had been modified for the needs of a Sunday school.† (source)
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To call the place an anthill would be like calling Versailles Palace a single-family home.† (source)
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I'm sure you have heard of the French aristocracy and the Court of Versailles.† (source)
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From among the landscape books he took the volume on Versailles he had borrowed from the Tallis library.† (source)
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Soon Caroline was driving down the main street of Versailles, charmed by the brick shopfronts, searching for signs that would mark her way home.† (source)
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I think he saw me as a traitor to Versailles.† (source)
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Some were gentlemen who felt strongly, like his lordship himself, that fair play had not been done at Versailles and that it was immoral to go on punishing a nation for a war that was now over.† (source)
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It was the one constant that told you—even in the staterooms and dining chambers and smoking lounge, despite the lavish efforts to make these rooms look as if they had been plucked from the Palace of Versailles or a Jacobean mansion—that you were aboard a ship being propelled far into the bluest reaches of the ocean.† (source)
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He wanted the splendor to be visible from the street, and so he designed a French garden with topiaries fit for Versailles, deep wells of flowers, a smooth and perfect lawn, jets of water, and several statues of the gods of Olympus and perhaps one or two courageous Indians from the history of the Americas, naked and crowned with feathers, his one concession to patriotism.† (source)
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