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Versailles
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  • They wandered through the house like little children on a tour of Versailles.†  (source)
  • "This tour guide on a field trip to Versailles sophomore year," St. Clair says.†  (source)
  • 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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  • By dusk they are west of Versailles.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • We need not overemphasize imperfections in the peace of Versailles.†  (source)
  • The living-room was crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely too large for it, so that to move about was to stumble continually over scenes of ladies swinging in the gardens of Versailles.†  (source)
  • I think he saw me as a traitor to Versailles.†  (source)
  • There's a religious historian I know who lives near Versailles.†  (source)
  • 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)
  • When I was called down to the guidance office at the end of last period, I took my sweet time getting there so I could admire the decorations that made the music hall look like the palace of Versailles.†  (source)
  • It reminds Lourdes of a photograph she saw once of the famous Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles with its endless ricocheting light.†  (source)
  • 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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