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  • The coup-d’ œil of the Brussels opera-house did not strike Mrs. O’Dowd as being so fine as the theatre in Fishamble Street, Dublin, nor was French music at all equal, in her opinion, to the melodies of her native country.

    XXIX. Brussels 1917

  • The American Fascists same crowd who tried to involve Smedley Butler in coup-d'etat against FDR backed Hitler with propaganda and finance.

    Crooks and Liars Bluegal aka Fran 2012

  • After dinner, some dancers performed a ballet in the moonlight—“the loveliest coup-d’oeil imaginable,” thought Channon—and then, at the end of the garden, a procession suddenly appeared, of white horses, donkeys, and peasants.

    Human Smoke Nicholson Baker 2008

  • It rescued even Ellena for a moment from a sense of danger, and she resigned herself to the surrounding scene, of which the coup-d’ oeil was striking and grand.

    The Italian 2004

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