1 But I know I am no use anywhere except in the army; I am not a diplomat or a government clerk.
2 After washing and dressing, Prince Andrew came into the diplomat's luxurious study and sat down to the dinner prepared for him.
3 The large group, in which were Prince Vasili and the generals, had the benefit of the diplomat.
4 She saw a man who looked like a European diplomat, in a loose top-coat and a Homburg hat.
5 His decent gray suit, made by Nat Hicks of Gopher Prairie, might have been of sheet iron; it had no distinction of cut, no easy grace like the diplomat's Burberry.
6 But Natalia, too, had hardly made her appearance in the world when she married the diplomat Lvov.
7 I am an old and weary diplomat.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 9: CHAPTER IV—A BOTTLE OF INK WHICH ONLY SUCCEEDED IN WHITEN... 8 and there she paused diplomatically.
9 Arkady talked in an undertone to Katya, and diplomatically attended to the princess's wants.
10 For HIM I am reserving a diplomatic post.
11 So his diplomatic hints remained fruitless.
12 Prince Andrew stayed at Brunn with Bilibin, a Russian acquaintance of his in the diplomatic service.
13 Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilibin gave promise of rising in his diplomatic career.
14 What the diplomatic matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and elegantly.
15 I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can't make it out.