Boulogne
[bu'lәun]
Examples
- I think he must have lived among a lot of people who were very solemn, because I went out riding with him in the Bois de Boulogne and started in to tell him American stories. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- He had seen the prisoner show these identical lists to French gentlemen at Calais, and similar lists to French gentlemen, both at Calais and Boulogne. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- It was at Boulogne I saw your father--a most uncommon likeness you are of him, by Jove! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Florence Scape, Fanny Scape, and their mother faded away to Boulogne, and will be heard of no more. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Mrs. Crackenbury and Mrs. Washington White passed through Boulogne on their way to Switzerland. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- As I was one day taking a solitary drive up the Champs Elysées on my road to the Bois de Boulogne, the Duke of Wellington galloped past my carriage. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Of course we drove in the Bois de Boulogne, that limitless park, with its forests, its lakes, its cascades, and its broad avenues. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Luttrell inquired, that you are eternally driving up that long stupid Bois de Boulogne? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- From Boulogne to Dieppe, from Dieppe to Caen, from Caen to Tours--trying with all her might to be respectable, and alas! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Early in the present century during the Napoleonic Wars, the rocket perfected by Sir William Congreve was used in the siege of Boulogne and in the battle of Leipsic. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- He even struck a medal and erected a column at Boulogne to commemorate the triumph of this projected invasion. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I will not describe the Bois de Boulogne. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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