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His devotion to his master had been not only whole hearted but cautious and wise. It was Stockmar's advice that had kept Prince Leopold in England during the critical years which followed his wife's death, and had thus secured to him the essential requisite of a point d'appui in the country of his adoption.
It is a little difficult to know the precise place at which to begin this narrative. There are, as it were, several points d'appui. And there were other things.... But I do not think any useful purpose would be served by such a course.
"I'll tell them not to despair after I've converted them," said Miss Vance. "Will you let me use you as a 'point d'appui', Mr. Beaton?" "Any way you like. If you're really going to see them, perhaps I'd better make a confession. I left your banjo with them, after I got it put in order." "How very nice! Then we have a common interest already." "Do you mean the banjo, or " "The banjo, decidedly.
Thus after the war with China in 1894-95, she opened by her Treaty of Peace four ports in the Yangtsze Valley region, Soochow, Hangchow, Chungking and Shasi; that is, at the two extreme ends of the valley she established politico- commercial points d'appui from which to direct her campaign.
What experience have they of life, not to mention gayety and pleasure, but of the great purpose of life, society? Man evidently is gregarious; Fourier's fables are founded on fact; we are nothing without our opposites, our fellows, our lights and shadows, colors, relations, combinations, our point d'appui, and our angle of sight.
Madame de Palme, taking into consideration the emotion of my voice rather more than my diplomatic pathos, lifted her eyes upon me again, opened her lips slightly, said nothing, and finally advanced a somewhat tremulous hand, which I hastened to receive within my own. She availed herself at once of this point d'appui to get on her feet, and bounded lightly to the floor.
Half the trees have been cut down for fuel. Still, the July sun streams very pleasantly through the remainder, and the Psalms of David float up from beneath their shade quite as sweetly as they usually do from the neighbourhood of the precentor's desk in the kirk at home perhaps sweeter. The wood itself is a point d'appui, or fortified post.
Yes, most decidedly, Cannes was the point d'appui. Right ho, then. Let me marshal my facts. I went to Cannes leaving Jeeves behind, he having intimated that he did not wish to miss Ascot round about the beginning of June. With me travelled my Aunt Dahlia and her daughter Angela. Tuppy Glossop, Angela's betrothed, was to have been of the party, but at the last moment couldn't get away.
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