Sample Sentences forLouis XIV (auto-selected)
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The door's lock and hinges are so big and antiquarian, they must be Louis XIV.† (source)
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The whole costume reminded Sophie of pictures she had seen of the court of Louis XIV.† (source)
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The chairs had such delicate proportions one could only assume that they had originally been designed for handmaidens in the court of Louis XIV.† (source)
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During the French Revolution, I got worried about my boy Louis XIV, the Sun King, then went down to check on him and found out he had died seventy-five years earlier.† (source)
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King Louis XIV had it stamped onto the barrels of all of the cannons that were forged during his reign.† (source)
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Spotlight expands: Imagine marble floors and marble pillars, gilt ornamentation, drapes descending forty-foot walls, an arched ceiling, an enormous Louis XIV tapestry depicting birds in flight.† (source)
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Thirteen years ago Bourne had been told that Carlos's huge retreat in the village hills of Vitry-sur-Seine outside Paris had more false walls and concealed staircases than a nobleman's Loire château in the time of Louis XIV.† (source)
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He filled his pages with homey accounts of the daily life of the Egyptian housekeeper, the Roman shoe-cobbler, the mistress of Louis XIV, what they ate, how they washed, where they shopped and what effect their buildings had upon their existence.† (source)
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* Elisabeth de Rossan, Marquise de Ganges, was one of the famous women of the court of Louis XIV.† (source)
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Louis XIV.† (source)
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Here, homeless and friendless, after thirty-seven years of bitter captivity, perished a noble stranger, natural son of Louis XIV.† (source)
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In 1685, the state of Genoa offended Louis XIV.† (source)
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Comparing French to the disciplines of a stiff French garden of Louis XIV, and English to the freedom an English park, Jespersen wrote in 1905: "The English language would not have been what it is if the English had not been for centuries great respecters of the liberties of each individual and if everybody had not been free to strike out new paths for himself."† (source)
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We were alone in his room in the governor's suite, a room of white walls and gold paneling, heavy mirrors hung on silk hawsers, a Louis XIV bed.† (source)
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I was Louis XIV and you were one of my—my—(Changing his tone.)† (source)
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Hartwell's pine table took its place in front of the fleur-de-lys-strewn throne of Louis XIV.† (source)
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