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  • But for the next few years we shall be compelled to content ourselves with scantier materials than have been furnished by the empress's unceasing interest in her daughter's welfare, and the embassador's faithful and candid reports.

    The Life of Marie Antoinette Yonge, Charles Duke, 1812-1891 1876

  • Bomilcar seems to have been apprehended without any application having been made to Jugurtha; as, in our own country, the Portuguese embassador's brother, who was one of his retinue, was apprehended and executed for a murder, by Oliver

    Conspiracy of Catiline and the Jurgurthine War 86 BC-34? BC Sallust 1844

  • Denmark to Russia, and Le Fort, who had a great inclination to see the world as well as to be a soldier, was seized with a strong desire to accompany the expedition in the embassador's train.

    Peter the Great Jacob Abbott 1841

  • On one occasion, when Peter was dining at the embassador's -- as it seems he was sometimes accustomed to do -- he took notice of Le Fort, who was present as one of the party, on account of his prepossessing appearance and agreeable manners.

    Peter the Great Jacob Abbott 1841

  • Thither his steps were dogged by an Irish servant of the embassador's; but the governor of Valenciennes protected him by imprisoning this man, till the youth himself generously begged his release; and he reached the emperor's court at Brussels, without further molestation.

    Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

  • From Nicot, it was also called the embassador's herb.

    The American Quarterly Review, No. 17, March 1831 Various 1821

  • A young English surgeon, who went to Paris, to improve himself in his business, by observing the practice in the celebrated hospitals, passing by the embassador's house on the 10th of June at night, took the liberty to break his excellency's windows because there was no bonfire before his door.

    The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Cibber, Theophilus, 1703-1758 1753

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