Word: amours
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...Austen went figuratively arm in arm to Geneva, last week, and as the Council assembled, it was reported to have been momentously determined that the Allied Military Commission of Control (over Germany) will soon be replaced by a supervisory League Commission, a great step in soothing German amour propre...
...peace. He spent most of his life directing wars against Louis XIV, but he disliked soldiers, particularly his own, never visited a battlefield, and was embarrassed by maneuvers. The rug hung over his bed in an elaborate and jejune country place to which he retired for meditation and amour. It is said that two violin players, blindfolded with black silk handkerchiefs, fiddled at the head and foot of the bed while he was taking his pleasure. He died in 1705 and the rug passed through the estates of a series of princes. Connoisseurs who have seen it in the Vienna...
That was his name. According to one story, which has the smell of truth, he was never christened Francis; his friends called him Francis for a nickname, as you might say "Frenchy" or "Frog," because of his madness for French poetry, French amour, French cooking. He could play the sackbut and he sang, in a voice not very even, but bright and moving, the songs of the trouvères. For the rest he was thin, fastidiously jeweled, ingenuous rather than witty, and supremely gay. His father, Pietro Bernardone, a substantial citizen, was banner-bearer of the guild...
...Tory in the Cabinet, was shrewdly calculated to benefit the Conservative Party at the next election. Aside from its political aspects, the plan has the advantage of opening an entirely new avenue of escape from the coal dilemma down which both miners and owners can travel without loss of amour-propre...
Deadlock. Meanwhile the British auxiliary warship Kiawo, a mere, armored river steamer, lay beside the captured vessels, covered at point blank range by the Yang artillery. To break this deadlock, intolerable to British amour propre, H. M. S. Cockchafer and H. M. S. Wigdeon, both river warships of the highest armament, steamed close to shore, drew the fire of the land batteries and shelled the city of Wanhsien...