rond-point

Here a few formless stone-heaps and straggling bushes represented the ruins, the gardens of palms, and the bullrushes of the Bedawi shepherd lads. 178 Our tents had been pitched in the rond-point of the Wady Surr, which before had given us hospitality

The Land of Midian 2003

Resuming our ride, we dismounted, after four miles, at the half-way Mahattah (“halting-place”): it is a rond-point in the Wady Sadr, marked from afar by a tall blue pyramid, the

The Land of Midian 2003

Avenue Gabriel, near the 'rond-point' of the Champs Elysees -- the dream of the young women at the Le Mire establishment -- two luxuriously furnished, quiet rooms, where the silence of the wealthy quarter, disturbed only by passing carriages, formed a blissful surrounding for their love.

The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

Marianne at the _rond-point_ of the Champs-Élysées, -- the duke seeing her enter his house, said abruptly to her:

His Excellency the Minister Jules Claretie 1876

Avenue Gabriel, near the 'rond-point' of the Champs Elysees -- the dream of the young women at the Le Mire establishment -- two luxuriously furnished, quiet rooms, where the silence of the wealthy quarter, disturbed only by passing carriages, formed a blissful surrounding for their love.

Fromont and Risler — Complete Alphonse Daudet 1868

In the daytime he first of all went for a swim at the Passy baths -- an immense joy, full of the ghosts of bygone times; then he would spend the rest of his day revisiting old haunts -- often sitting on the edge of the stone fountain in the rond-point of the Avenue du

The Martian George Du Maurier 1865

Resuming our ride, we dismounted, after four miles, at the half-way Mahattah ( "halting-place"): it is a rond-point in the

The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

We could see a number of vehicles lined up like a barricade in the broad avenue of the Champs-Elysées, at the rond-point.

The Memoirs of Victor Hugo Victor Hugo 1843

The _rond-point_ is at the entrance of the park of Gondreville, one of the finest estates in France, and by far the finest in the departments of the Aube; it boasts of long avenues of elms, a castle built from designs by Mansart, a park of fifteen hundred acres enclosed by a stone wall, nine large farms, a forest, mills, and meadows.

An Historical Mystery Honor�� de Balzac 1824

More than all, when Violette had followed the tracks of the horses as far as the _rond-point_, he had found the countess, evidently on guard, at the pavilion.

An Historical Mystery Honor�� de Balzac 1824