Grande

Examples

• It was also used in October, 1899, on board the Grande Duchesse to report the international yacht race between the Columbia and the Shamrock at Sandy Hook, as seen in Fig. 13. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Indeed Scott did not deem it important to hold anything beyond the Rio Grande, and authorized Taylor to fall back to that line if he chose. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• One battery, the siege guns and all the convalescent troops were sent on by water to Brazos Santiago, at the mouth of the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The question was submitted to Washington, and no response was received until after the army had reached the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Accordingly, preparations were begun for moving the army to the Rio Grande, to a point near Matamoras. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• As we lay in our tents upon the sea-shore, the artillery at the fort on the Rio Grande could be distinctly heard. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• That you abandon Texas entirely, with the exception of your hold upon the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• She passed herself off on the amorous doctor, _comme une grande vertu_, on purpose to laugh at him. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Even these great instruments have now been excelled in the Grande Lunette, of the Paris Exposition, in 1900. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• As had been the case on the Rio Grande, the people who remained at their homes fraternized with the Yankees in the pleasantest manner. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• There was not at that time a single habitation from Corpus Christi until the Rio Grande was reached. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• We rowed lightly over the Laguna, and entered Canale Grande. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Texas, as an independent State, never had exercised jurisdiction over the territory between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The line of the Rio Grande was all that was necessary to hold, unless it was intended to invade Mexico from the North. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Reinforcements having arrived, in the month of August the movement commenced from Matamoras to Camargo, the head of navigation on the Rio Grande. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• A bas les grandes passions et les sévères vertus! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• At all this simple little creature's fetes, the grandes eaux were accustomed to play. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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