|
|
| word looked up : | home / archive |
July 17July 17 is the 198th day (199th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 167 days remaining.
| |||
July 16 - July 18 - June 16 - August 18 -- listing of all days
January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December
This idea was eagerly
money by subscription. The lady who was thought to be most pleasing to
landowner in the Vilna province, offered his country.html">country house for the
regatta, and fireworks at Zakret, Count Bennigsen's country seat.
The very day that Napoleon issued the order to cross the Niemen, and
frontier, Alexander spent the evening at the entertainment given by
declared that rarely had so many beautiful women been assembled in one
had followed the sovereign from Petersburg to Vilna and eclipsed the
beauty. The Emperor noticed her and honored her with a dance.
Boris Drubetskoy, having left his wife in Moscow and being for the
an aide-de-camp, had subscribed a large sum toward the expenses. Boris
patronage but stood on an equal footing with the highest of those of
her for a long time and did not recall the past, but as Helene was
recently married, they met as good friends of long standing.
At midnight dancing was still going on. Helene, not having a
They were the third couple. Boris, coolly looking at Helene's dazzling
gown, talked to her of old acquaintances and at the same time, unaware
to observe the Emperor who was in the same room. The Emperor was not
another with gracious words which he alone knew how to.
On
wordlookup.net
All is still licensed under the GNU FDL.
It uses material from the wikipedia.
|
|