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  • The Prince de Talleyrand happened to be there; and I got M. de Vandenesse, a charming young man, to ask him whether, among the guests at his country-place in 1809, he remembered any one of the name of Henarez.

    Letters of Two Brides 2007

  • On leaving the country-place where they had always lived up till then, the elder Aratov settled in the old capital, with the object of putting his son to the university, for which he had himself prepared him; he bought for a trifle a little house in one of the outlying streets, and established himself in it, with all his books and scientific odds and ends.

    Dream tales and prose poems 2006

  • Genung, who, something more than four years earlier, had been so largely responsible for my association with Mark Twain, was on the same train, in the same coach, bound for his country-place at New

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • That summer -- the summer of 1854 -- Madame Gregoriev, Ivan, and Ludmillo had spent at the Princess 'favorite country-place, the tiny estate of

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • The issue of the Moscow _Journal_ for March 26, 1887, announced the return of Prince Ivan Gregoriev to Russia after a thirty-month absence abroad; adding that he was in Moscow for a few days only, before proceeding to his country-place of Maidonovo, near Klin.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

  • From the earliest days of her remembrance, there had been set in the window of the little drawing room, a young pine brought from the Doctor's country-place far up in Maryland.

    The Tin Soldier Temple Bailey

  • Often, when we took a walk on the Green, Sunday evenings, she would point to the hills beyond which her father's home once was, and I came to think of that country-place as one where there was plenty to eat and coals to keep warm.

    The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

  • A man whose life has been, like mine, driven by caprice, adventure, revolutions and exile toward the four quarters of the world, would be happy, I think, to possess, not a chalet in these mountains -- I do not like the Alps -- but a country-place in Normandy or Brittany.

    Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 24, March, 1873 Various

  • Humphry would have taken to angling in some quiet country-place for a month thereafter!

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

  • But in "Maidonovo," a country-place of the Gregorievs just outside the town, the mistress of the house, Princess Sophia, had not yet gone to bed.

    The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

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