All 14 Uses
chateau
in
The American, by Henry James
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- V. B." Newman groaned at this miserable news, and at the necessity of deferring his journey to the Chateau de Fleurieres.†
Chpt 18chateau = an impressive country house (or castle) in France
- He left his vehicle at the tavern in the village street, and obeyed the simple instructions which were given him for finding the chateau.†
Chpt 20 *
- The chateau was near the road; this was at once its merit and its defect; but its aspect was extremely impressive.†
Chpt 20
- But the great feature was a wide, green river which washed the foundations of the chateau.†
Chpt 20
- At the door of the chateau he waited for some moments, and this gave him a chance to observe that Fleurieres was not "kept up," and to reflect that it was a melancholy place of residence.†
Chpt 20
- The footman led the way across a great central vestibule, with a pyramid of plants in tubs in the middle of glass doors all around, to what appeared to be the principal drawing-room of the chateau.†
Chpt 20
- Newman, as he had done before, left his conveyance at the inn and walked the short remaining distance to the chateau.†
Chpt 21
- The chateau, sir?†
Chpt 21
- Beneath, over the plain, lay the gathered twilight, through which, in the near distance, gleamed two or three lights from the chateau.†
Chpt 21
- Mrs. Bread sat with a dull, oblique gaze fixed upon the lights of the chateau.†
Chpt 22
- "No, sir, she knew nothing," said Mrs. Bread, holding her head very stiff and keeping her eyes fixed upon the glimmering windows of the chateau.†
Chpt 22
- He stayed all the next day at the chateau, and hardly left the marquis.†
Chpt 22
- He walked with her back to the chateau; the curfew had tolled for the laborious villagers of Fleurieres, and the street was unlighted and empty.†
Chpt 22
- Mrs. Bread choosing not to go in by the great gate, they passed round by a winding lane to a door in the wall of the park, of which she had the key, and which would enable her to enter the chateau from behind.†
Chpt 22
Definitions:
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(1)
(chateau) an impressive country house (or castle) in France
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)