Elba
['elbə]
Examples
- His young Austrian wife would not accompany him to Elba. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- You're a military man, he went on; I ask you, Bill Dobbin, could any man ever have speculated upon the return of that Corsican scoundrel from Elba? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Napoleon had been packed off to a little consolation empire of his own, upon the island of Elba. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Wellington was no inducement for me to prolong my stay in Paris, and as Buonaparte was now on his way from Elba, I began to prepare for my departure. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
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