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Перевод: empress
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Тезаурус:
- Looking neither to right nor left, the Emperor rose and walked firmly towards the door followed by the Empress.
- Later on the Empress installed a small private oratory in her apartments where a daily Mass was said by her own private chaplain.
- There was one general's wife who looked like a peasant in disguise and another woman whose get-up produced ill-concealed mirth among the assembly, but an icy glance from the Empress soon punished us for it.
- When the Court was in residence at the Tuileries the child spent some hours every day with both his father and mother, usually in the Empress's study, and during the periods of residence at Compigne, Fontainebleau or Saint Cloud, he was with them most of the time.
- Her Majesty the Empress was very gracious to us, but that was all.
- It was here that the great receptions and gala balls took place, though it was not the setting for the traditional New Year's ambassadorial reception as described by Hubner, which was that of the Throne part played by the Empress, since this was her first appearance at such a function and it thus enables us to observe her on an occasion of high formality:
- By the fireplace, there was what was known as a "Turkish corner", protected by a screen, in which the Empress normally sat either to read or to talk informally with someone who had come to see her.
- Rowena Dawson Kegworth, nr Derby I READ The Empress Without Clothes (page 6) with interest.
- In the sixties a mechanical piano was added to the furniture of the Empress's drawing room, the famous Salon Chinois in which was displayed a portion of the loot which the French army had acquired when the Summer Palace at Peking had been sacked.
- Having saluted the Ambassadors, who stood in a circle next to the door leading from the Galerie de Diane to the Salle des Marchaux, the Emperor and Empress entered the Ballroom and mounted the dais which was set aside for them.
- This was the occasion for further expressions of friendship on the part of the two sovereigns, for Queen Victoria had taken a personal interest in the Empress's accouchement and had sent Lady Ely, one of her ladies-in-waiting, to be present at the birth.
- The death of the Empress does not affect my opera in the least, for none of the theatres have been closed and plays are being performed as usual.
- But all the stamping and cheering in the Empress ballroom might almost have been a vain attempt to muffle the sound of hats flopping intermittently into the leadership ring.
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