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  • Having reached the palace-yard, she found that she was not mistaken -- there stood the emperor's travelling-carriage.

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

  • Every morning the French Emperor reviewed his guards in the large palace-yard, and thousands of the inhabitants of Vienna hastened regularly to Schönbrunn in order to see him and witness the parade.

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

  • The emperor at that moment entered the palace-yard, while the two servants were still standing near, speechless, and as if paralyzed with terror.

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

  • But Theseus went up through the town, while the people wept and prayed, and through the gates of the palace-yard, and through the piles of bones and skulls, till he came to the door of Kerkuon's hall, the terror of all mortal men.

    Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

  • While the regiments were forming in the palace-yard below, and the spectators were thronging about them, Napoleon was still in his cabinet.

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

  • In the tenth, an Empress, passing through her palace-yard, attended by her ladies, is led by the favorite on whom she leans, and who she does not see is Death, into an open grave.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various

  • It was dawning when a carriage rolled into the palace-yard.

    Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia F. [Translator] Jordan

  • So they tossed off all their garments, and went forth into the palace-yard, and Kerkuon bade strew fresh sand in an open space between the bones.

    Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

  • It was the priests who made it possible for Jaimihr to dare take his part in the ceremony; without them he would not have entered his brother's palace-yard unless five thousand men at least were there to guard his back - but, if there was danger where the priests were, there was safety too.

    Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

  • Apparently, then, Ali Partab - a prisoner in Jaimihr's palace-yard - was the only connecting link between him and the Rangars whom he wished to win over to his side.

    Rung Ho Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1914

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