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over my divan

170 Leaving the princess at the portal of the palace, I went to my dwelling which was ablaze with the soft glow of its alabaster lamps, and there I found a beautiful new pelt spread over my divan, a new gift from King Gelidus.
— from Baron Trump's Marvellous Underground Journey by Ingersoll Lockwood

of my drawingroom

I hope the air of my drawingroom will dispel your spleen...
— from A Hero of Our Time by Mikhail Iurevich Lermontov

of my dear

"Well, well," said Candide, "I find that I shall be the only happy man when I am blessed with the sight of my dear Cunegonde."
— from Candide by Voltaire

of my death

“You are a wench with brains,” he said to her, when he gave her eight thousand roubles, “and you must look after yourself, but let me tell you that except your yearly allowance as before, you'll get nothing more from me to the day of my death, and I'll leave you nothing in my will either.”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

of my dear

O, then unfold the passion of my love, Surprise her with discourse of my dear faith: It shall become thee well to act my woes; She will attend it better in thy youth Than in a nuncio of more grave aspect.
— from Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will by William Shakespeare

of my day

Such was the Paris of my day.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova

of Madame d

I will not believe that they have falsified anything, as to matter of fact; but they make a common practice of twisting the judgment of events, very often contrary to reason, to our advantage, and of omitting whatsoever is ticklish to be handled in the life of their master; witness the proceedings of Messieurs de Montmorency and de Biron, which are here omitted: nay, so much as the very name of Madame d’Estampes is not here to be found.
— from Essays of Michel de Montaigne — Complete by Michel de Montaigne

ought my duty

“How, my Lord!” said Isabella; “sure you do not suspect me of not feeling the concern I ought: my duty and affection would have always—” “Think no more of him,” interrupted Manfred; “he was a sickly, puny child, and Heaven has perhaps taken him away, that I might not trust the honours of my house on so frail a foundation.
— from The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole

of Madame Duval

But nothing can be more strangely absurd, than to hear politeness recommended in language so repugnant to it as that of Madame Duval.
— from Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney

of my dignity

I was on the point of trying to save the last remnant of my dignity by walking out, when Anne relieved my embarrassment.
— from The Jervaise Comedy by J. D. (John Davys) Beresford

of mongrel dogs

"I've known 'em a good while, and they haven't got the spirit of mongrel dogs.
— from A Modern Chronicle — Volume 08 by Winston Churchill

of my debt

We had long been smarting under the conduct of these ruffians, and moreover I was glad to discharge a part of my debt to you.
— from At Agincourt by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

of Monsieur de

He made no attempt to conceal the fact that he had come to France to place himself at the disposal of Monsieur de Lafayette.
— from The Light That Lures by Percy James Brebner

of M de

" "That is but too true," cried Louis XV; "and I felt much annoyed at the time, that he preferred going to amuse himself at the house of M. de Laborde, when his duty summoned him to my side.
— from Memoirs of the Comtesse Du Barry With Minute Details of Her Entire Career as Favorite of Louis XV by Lamothe-Langon, Etienne-Léon, baron de

own master Dominey

“I am scarcely my own master,” Dominey replied.
— from The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

of my debts

"It is so far out of all square," he had said, "as on my conscience I cannot think that ever they craved it 'animo obtinendi,' but only by that objection to discourage me from any thought of getting any repayment of my debts from them when they shall be in peace . . .. . . .
— from Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a view of the primary causes and movements of the Thirty Years' War, 1614-17 by John Lothrop Motley

of Maine disaster

Spain: Fiscal policy toward Cuba, I, 175; wars with France, 177; discriminations against Cuba, 266, 267; protests against South Sea Company, II, 22; course in American Revolution, 143; war with Great Britain, 151; attitude toward America, 159; peace with Great Britain, 162; restrictive laws, 224; policy under Godoy, 265; decline of power, 273; seeks to pawn Cuba to Great Britain for loan, 330; protests to United States against Lopez's expedition, III, 59; seeks British protection, 129; refuses to sell Cuba, 135; revolution against Bourbon dynasty, 145 et seq.; rejects suggestion of American mediation in Cuba, 219; seeks American mediation, 293; strives to placate Cuba, IV, 5; crisis over Cuban affairs, 35; attitude toward War of Independence, 40; considers Autonomy, 71; Cabinet crisis of 1897, 88; proposes joint investigation of Maine disaster, 100; at war with United States, 106; makes Treaty of Paris, relinquishing Cuba, 118.
— from The History of Cuba, vol. 4 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

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