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... in jelly, and suck with placidity, in the intervals of a curt exchange of French with the wife of the Hon. Melville, a ringleted English lady, or of ... ...- cately perceptible to the Comte, and not a soul saw it but that wretched Frenchman! He came to me: “Madame,” he said, “is a question permitted?” I r... .... The gift would be base that you did not embellish.” He lifted his hands, French- fashion: “Madame, it is that I have received the gift.”—”In- deed! ... ...t.” He should have stopped there; but you cannot have the last word with a Frenchman—not even a woman. Fortunately the Queen just then made her entry ... ...e waiter carelessly for some light supper dish, he sug- gested the various French, with ‘not that?’ and the affable naming of another. ‘Nor that? Dear... ...s de Saldar. After that dreadful dinner she (since the weaknesses of great generals should not be altogether ignored), did pray for flight and total o... ...key, who fortunately had received no damage. CHAPTER XXVII EXHIBITS ROSE’S GENERALSHIP; EVAN’S PERFORMANCE ON THE SECOND FIDDLE; AND THE WRETCHEDNESS ... ...I have done enough. My conscience at least is safe.’ Like many illustrious Generals, the Countess had, for the hour, lost heart. We find her, however,... ... up Rose was, in the present result of it, other than unlucky. Now the two Generals—Rose Jocelyn and the Countess de Saldar—had brought matters to thi...

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...very reminiscent of Vladimir Putin's reign in post-Yeltsin Russia. Like the French Second Empire, it follows a period of revolutions and counter-rev... ...tine security apparatus which regularly gathered information on millions of Frenchmen and foreigners. Modernization and Reform Putin is considerably ... ... of the Congress of Vienna (1815) and reverse the trend of post-Napoleonic French humiliation. He wanted to resurrect "Great France" pretty much as... ...month before he mercifully died (or, more likely, was assassinated) his own generals invited Babylonian priests to exorcise the demons that may have...

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...his troubles would be lighter to him than was usual. Books in Latin and in French he read with as much ease as in English, and took delight in such as... ...ome for that;—and Edith would get lessons cheaply, and would learn to talk French fluently. He certainly would do it. He would go down to Allington, a... ...knighted in consequence of some benefit supposed to have been done to some French scion of royalty—when such scions in France were royal and not imper... ...he will be in two or three years’ time, when he becomes a woman. She talks French, and Italian, and He- brew for anything that I know; and she is perf... ... neither would Mrs Proudie speak of it—at any rate till after he was gone. Generals who are beaten out of the field are not quick to talk of their own... ...henbane to Archdeacon Grantly to have a poor son—a son living at Pau—among French- men!—because he could not afford to live in England. Why had the ar...

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... built into a crescendo of emotions. "We did it to protect ourselves from the French who invaded our island, pillaged our towns, slaughtered our peo... ...I.A., which was the first letter of each word in our credo: 'Death to all the French'. We took as our symbol the 'Black Hand' to strike terror in th... ...ice, "Gallucci said. "We either do what we have pledged since the time of the French: to protect our families, or we suffer the same fate we have jus... ...m the British delegate, "We shall always protect our own self interests." The French newspapers played it up as Britain's usual anti-European cooper... ... 127 J.Cross/Artemis Gallucci words echoed in Alex's ears like so many Generals before. Alex just sat, shaking his head between his hands, tr... ...ave the money in a few days." The waiter brought the drinks, and a basket of French bread. "What's our next move," Brand asked. "Start running t... ...s and twenty heads of the most powerful Cartels, plus three of Colombia’s top Generals and Cardona, assembled in a plush room deep underground in the... ...s got up and strolled around the huge table, stopping at one of the Colombian Generals. "What do you think, General Martinez? What can you contribu... ...will, Holy Father.” Enriquez hung up the phone, and frantically assembled his Generals and top aides. “I have just received word from Pope Francis th...

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...flect calls for even stronger regulation. In 1983,Attorney General William French Smith revised the Levi guidelines to encourage closer investigation ... ...ll Group considered ideas about how to respond to or prevent such attacks. Generals Shelton and Zinni came up with military options. Special Operation... ...ht the AC-130 option feasible. 142 The most likely explanation for the two generals’ differing recollections is that both of them thought serious prep... ... more proposed operations for al Qaeda.The October 6, 2002, bombing of the French tanker Limburg in the Gulf of Aden also was Nashiri’s handiwork.Alth... ...se, this involved flying from France to Montreal using a photo-substituted French passport under a false name. Under questioning, Ressam admit- ted th... ...urther training that he could use to carry out a potential attack. 92 As a French national who had overstayed his visa, Moussaoui could be detained im... ...t the case. 96 The FBI legal attaché’s office in Paris first contacted the French government on August 16 or 17, shortly after speaking to the Minneap... ...nd chanted with one voice,‘God is great.’This open defiance of the Russian generals who could physically destroy their city was matched throughout the...

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...ke to look at a Russian or a German or an Italian — I even like to look at a Frenchman if I ever have the luck to catch him engaged in anything that a... ... “Extract from Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” Mark Twain 35 Norman French, and sometimes a mixture of all three; back of them, they talk Lat... ...Napoleon, Sandy?” “Often — sometimes in the Corsican range, sometimes in the French. He always hunts up a conspicuous place, and goes frowning around... ...erybody knows that if he had had a chance he would have shown the world some generalship that would have made all generalship be fore look like child... ...nd Alexander, and Napoleon are all on his staff, and ever so many more great generals; but the public hardly care to look at them when he is around...

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...ainted as an ideal head of Germany. Wallenrod invested enough money in the French funds to give his daughter thirty thou- sand francs a year, and sett... ...her with his cottons, a pretty little wife, attracted it would seem by his French nature. Miss Grummer was worth about four thousand dollars (twenty t... ...the use of two languages, she could speak and read German quite as well as French; she had also, together with her sister, learned English from Ma- da... ...ste fed her soul on the modern masterpieces of three literatures, English, French, and German. Lord Byron, Goethe, Schiller, Walter Scott, Hugo, Lamar... ...t gratifies the vanity, —that pow- erful auxiliary to all action among the French. Out of this third period of the development of her ideas, there cam... ...hom we boast as our only family glory,—for I take no account of lieutenant-generals, and abbes who write trumpery little verses. Moreover, I do not li...

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...one moment he understood it all. The enemy were advancing, to surprise the French army, and would be upon them when night was further advanced. That m... ...the self-devotion of the chevalier; for, among the new war-steamers of the French fleet, there is one that bears the ever-honored name of D’Assas. THE... ...aves, made up his own share of the numbers, but all the army was under his generalship. It is even said that the 300 celebrated their own funeral rite... ...should con- tinue. Then, as to the exchange of prisoners, the Carthaginian generals, who were in the hands of the Romans, were in full health and stre... ...ed is not known. The Senate, after the next victory, gave two Carthaginian generals to his wife and sons to hold as pledges for his good treatment; bu... ...was Antiochus Epiphanes, King of Syria. He was descended from one of those generals who, upon the death of Alexander the Great, had shared the East be... ...and character would be more like that of the modern Welsh, or of their own French descendants, small, alert, and dark-eyed, full of fire, but, though ... ...ewi, or White Stream, in Latin Genovefa, but she is best known by the late French form of Genevieve. When she was about seven years old, two celebrate... ...another five hundred years after, were successfully de- fended against the French by a small force of British troops under the command of Colonel Hugh...

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...(as the Times do braul) 572 Are in three Heads: one Power against the French, 573 And one against Glendower: Perforce a third 574 Must... ... Hast. If he should do so, 581 He leaues his backe vnarm’d, the French, and Welch 582 Baying him at the heeles: neuer feare that. 583... ...imselfe, and Harrie Monmouth. 586 But who is substituted ’gainst the French, 587 I haue no certaine notice. 588 Arch. Let vs on: ... ...ph, stand my 1756 friend, and heere is foure Harry tenne shillings in French 1757 Crownes for you: in very truth, sir, I had as lief be hang’... ...onditions wee shall stand vpon? 2032 West. That is intended in the Generals Name: 2033 I muse you make so slight a Question. 2034 ...

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..................................................256 THE HISTORY OF THE NEXT FRENCH REVOLUTION. ........................................................... ...etty grocer’s boy you are,” she cried, “with your applepiebomenos and your French and lingo. Am I to be kept waiting for hever?” “Pardon, fair Maiden,... ...ever?” “Pardon, fair Maiden,” said he, with high-bred courtesy: “’twas not French I read, ’twas the Godlike language of the blind old bard. In what ca... ... proves him a delicate scholar,” Mr. Pope exclaimed. “He knows more of the French king than any man I have met with; and we must have an eye upon him,... ...s of pias- tres to the Seraskier; by bribing Colonel de St. Cornichon, the French envoy in the camp of the victorious Ibrahim, the march of the Egypti... ...room where he sat, I found him in the midst of a council of war; his chief generals and viziers seated round him, each smoking his hookah, as is the c... ...ost intrepid and powerful soldiers in all Germany,—one of the most skilful generals. Generous to extravagance to his own followers, he was ruthless to... ...stitutions of the Empire, Emperor of the French Republic, to our marshals, generals, officers, and soldiers, greeting: “‘Soldiers! “‘From the summit o... ...nd it was done. Rapidly forming into a line, they advanced headed by their Generals,—who, turning their steeds into a grass-field, wisely determined t...

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...use of the way was the Continental System which was ruining Europe; to the generals and old soldiers that the chief reason for the war was the necessi... ...auses— to occasion the event. To us, the wish or objection of this or that French corporal to serve a second term appears as much a cause as Napoleon’... ... subsequent dictatorship and Empire, or all the things that pro- duced the French Revolution, and so on. Without each of these causes nothing could ha... ...t seemed to Napoleon) only for the purpose of securing an armed peace, the French Emperor’s love and habit of war coinciding with his people’s inclina... ...d be shot, on whom a letter containing information about the orders to the French army had been found, Napoleon also gave instructions that the Polish... ...out another half-hour. Boris was thus the first to learn the news that the French army had crossed the Niemen and, thanks to this, was able to show ce... ...t of hussars and Uhlans and a brilliant suite of aides-de-camp, pages, and generals, who were waiting for Napoleon to come out, were standing at the p... ...ourt. The Comte de Turenne showed him into a big reception room where many generals, gentlemen-in-waiting, and Polish magnates—several of whom Balashe... ...town or large village in the vicinity of the camp, the im- mense number of generals and courtiers accompanying the army were living in the best houses...

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...e were heaps of guests—about a thousand people, and all of them princes or generals, and there was music, and I danced— But, Katenka” I broke off, “yo... ...two days later saw Karl Ivanitch forced to re- tire in favour of the young Frenchman referred to. VIII KARL IVANITCH’S HISTORY THE EVENING BEFORE the ... ...eally kill anybody?” Karl instantly reassured me on this point, “Vonce one French grenadier was left behint, ant fell to ze grount. I sprang forvarts ... ... his feet. “Firstly, tell me something about the reasons which induced the French king to assume the cross (here he raised his eyebrows and pointed to... ...al” (draw- ing the copy books to the left side of the table) “and upon the French state in particular” (drawing one of them to the right, and inclinin... ...together. Let me go’—and for the last time I shall embrace him, and say in French, ‘O mon pere, O mon bienfaiteur, donne moi, pour la derniere fois, t...

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...ssioner for the United States. Here he re mained till 1785, the favorite of French society; and with such success did he conduct the affairs of his c... ... was a mere compositor, knowing nothing of presswork. He had been one of the French prophets, and could act their enthusiastic agi tations. At this t... ...indow, we saw the governor and another gentleman (which proved to be Colonel French, of Newcastle), finely dress’d, come directly across the street to... ...d would have me away with him to the tavern, where he was going with Colonel French to taste, as he said, some excellent Madeira. I was The Autobiogra... ...r star’d like a pig poison’d. I went, however, with the governor and Colonel French to a tavern, at the corner of Third street, and over the Madeira h... ...o twenty five thousand people in the fields, and to the antient histories of generals ha ranguing whole armies, of which I had sometimes doubted. By ... ...d that Mr. Pitt gave it as one reason for removing this general, and sending Generals Amherst and Wolfe, that the minister never heard from him, and c...