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  • After I read the last page, I just flipped through the book and reread some of my favorite passages -- like when Vronsky follows Anna at the station, the game of Secretaire between Levin and Kitty, the secret meetings between Anna and Vronsky -- and I lingered over them, like a long, drawn-out goodbye to a good friend.

    Archive 2006-08-01 2006

  • And that is why as I read the Secretaire passage in Anna Karenina and blushed and smiled as the memories of Peter flooded my brain, I could in the next moment reach over and squeeze my husband's hand as he drove our little family safely home.

    Secretaire 2006

  • After I read the last page, I just flipped through the book and reread some of my favorite passages -- like when Vronsky follows Anna at the station, the game of Secretaire between Levin and Kitty, the secret meetings between Anna and Vronsky -- and I lingered over them, like a long, drawn-out goodbye to a good friend.

    Random Thoughts, Ver. 3.0 2006

  • And that is why as I read the Secretaire passage in Anna Karenina and blushed and smiled as the memories of Peter flooded my brain, I could in the next moment reach over and squeeze my husband's hand as he drove our little family safely home.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • Anyway, Kitty and Levin sit down together in a moment that is nearly exploding with romantic possibilities and play a game of Secretaire.

    Secretaire 2006

  • Anyway, Kitty and Levin sit down together in a moment that is nearly exploding with romantic possibilities and play a game of Secretaire.

    Archive 2006-07-01 2006

  • Secretaire, you see, and abstruse set of solid mahogany pigeon-holes, one for every letter of the alphabet.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Maiestie in his countenance proportionable with the excellencie of his estate: on the one side of him stood his chiefe Secretaire, on the other side, the great Commander of silence, both of them arayed also in cloth of gold: and then there sate the Counsel of one hundred and fiftie in number, all in like sort arayed, and of great

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • French Secretary, the other a Secretaire interprete, who speaks and writes

    John Adams diary 29, 12 March - 31 July 1779 1961

  • Napoleon placed my successor with him, M. M.neval, near the Empress Regent as Secretaire des Commandemens

    Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

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