France
[frɑːns]
Definition
(noun.) a republic in western Europe; the largest country wholly in Europe.
(noun.) French writer of sophisticated novels and short stories (1844-1924).
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Examples
- When the massacre of St. Bartholomew’s Eve deluged France with the blood of Protestants Catherine saw that Palissy was spared from the general destruction. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The royal crown of France is a circle ornamented with eight fleur-de-lis, from which rise as many quarter-circles closing under a double fleur-de-lis. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then Prussia declared war in support of Austria, and the allied forces, under the Duke of Brunswick, prepared to invade France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The common man in France was more free, better off, and happier during the Terror than he had been in 1787. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- So they might hope to strike down France at one blow, and deal at their leisure with Russia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The next Pope elected, Clement V, was a Frenchman, the choice of King Philip of France. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- These works had a great vogue in France and Europe. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- France is the traditional ally and friend of the United States. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The tension of patriotic and republican France was now becoming intolerable. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- France was humiliated and crippled. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- A happy circumstance for France, as the like always is for all countries similarly favoured! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- The first underseas cable was laid in 1851 between France and England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- D'Alibard, who made the first experiments in France, says that he only followed the tract which Franklin had pointed out. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- During my stay in France, I have followed up, with intense interest, the history of my people in America. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- France, Germany, Italy and Spain, were interposed, walls yet without a breach, between us and the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- But when they came to the town into Frances Street, the girl stopped a minute, and said, 'Yo'll not forget yo're to come and see us. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Mr. Norris, a friend of her brother-in-law, with scarcely any private fortune, and Miss Frances fared yet worse. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Jane came first, then George Sedley Osborne, then Maria Frances, and the days of the christening of each. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
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