chateau

• “When he came to what I called my chateau, from nowhere, going nowhere, I hardly knew whether to call him young or old.”

  Back to God's Country and Other Stories

• “Of the 250 – 300 cases made, the chateau is holding back 50 cases for a minimum ten years to see if the wine changes back to show more of the Margaux character.”

  2010 May | Dr Vino's wine blog

• “Looking down into the limpid quiet, where everything is so familiar, yet so alien, the eye sees, beyond those mysterious green glades, habitations of the water-country, twisted of chimney as an elfin chateau, blurred replicas of some cottage on the bank, wavering in outline and impossible in perspective.”

  The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing

• ““There is something which might be called a chateau; but the wiser plan would be to use the building materials in the construction of a modern residence.””

  Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

• “The chateau was a frame structure of twenty-eight rooms, lavishly furnished with Oriental rugs and imported Sheraton furniture.”

  Simon & Schuster: THE AMERICAN WEST

• “Among the visitors at the chateau was the Baron de Saint Foix, an old friend of the Count, and his son, the Chevalier St. Foix, a sensible and amiable young man, who, having in the preceding year seen the Lady Blanche, at Paris, had become her declared admirer.”

  The Mysteries of Udolpho

• “Now, the west wing of the chateau is the most modern part and there's nothing there that this could represent.”

  Salvage for the Saint

• “From the time of the arrival of the Empress we were in a state of terrible apprehension, and every one in the chateau was a prey to the greatest anxiety in regard to the Emperor.”

  Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon

• “Just behind the chateau was a wee village of dug-outs.”

  Adventures of a Despatch Rider

• “The chateau is a topping big place in pretty grounds and has most of the furniture left in it.”

  Letters from France

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