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  • As I bent down to fetch a guide book out of my rucksack, a bullet whistled over my head and lodged in the Archduke's heart.

    Lord Weidenfeld of Chelsea: On Turning 90 2009

  • And yet, reading Archduke's comments above about Boss Springsteen, the cretins still can't get it right.

    JACKO WHACKED. 2009

  • Maria Theresa was such an adept politician that I very much doubt that the Archduke's Hungarian garb was there by coincidence...

    A Family Portrait de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • That's not to mention the amazing coincidence that the Austrian Archduke's name is stringly similar to that of a Scottish band that become famous ninety years later -- again, you saw it hear first.

    Archive 2005-04-10 2005

  • From that bead grows sound and I hear the Beethoven, the Allegro Moderato, The Archduke's first movement, and then Dad's voice.

    A Traitor to Memory George, Elizabeth 2001

  • What with the Archduke's holdings already lying on the Rethwellan-Jkatha border, and the King of Rethwellan wanting very much to strengthen ties between the two countries, the match seemed an ideal one.

    Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • Even the Archduke's eldest girl, the quiet scholar who considered herself an adult at thirteen, had joined in the romp.

    Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • It seemed to Tarma that there could be no better solution to the Archduke's surfeit of girl-children.

    Oathblood Lackey, Mercedes 1998

  • Still it is hard to believe that Potoriek would have risked his own life to take Franz Ferdinand's, considering that in this, a land of sharpshooters, he could easily have arranged for the Archduke's assassination when he was walking in the open country.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1969

  • He came to a halt exactly in front of a young Bosnian Serb named Gavrilo Princip, who was one of the members of the same conspiracy as Chabrinovitch and had gone back to make another attempt on the Archduke's life after having failed to draw his revolver on him during the journey to the town hall.

    Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: Part IV 1969

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