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small and château
The hunting lodge was enlarged to the size of a small château between 1632 and 1634.
She was given free rein to renovate the Petit Trianon, a small château on the grounds of Versailles, which was given to her as a gift by Louis XVI on 15 August 1774 ; she concentrated mainly on horticulture, redesigning the garden in the English fashion, which in the previous reign had been an arboretum of introduced species, and adding flowers.
A conclusive description and visualization can be found in the 1720 German translation of the French La Guerre D ' Espagne ( Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1707 ), where a galant party of high aristocrats and opera singers has resorted to a small château where they entertain themselves with hunting, play and music in a three day turn:
* Bellevue Palace ( France ), a small château built for Madame de Pompadour near Paris in 1750 overlooking the Seine and demolished in 1823
The Château de Langeais is a medieval castle, rebuilt as a château, in Indre-et-Loire, France, built on a promontory created by the small valley of the Roumer River at the opening to the Loire Valley.
Once a small château located between the royal residences of Vincennes and Fontainebleau, the estate of Vaux-le-Vicomte was purchased by Nicolas Fouquet in 1641.
Although a small château, when compared to the great châteaux of the Kings and some of those built by other wealthy nobles, it is a magnificent Renaissance construction fronted by traditional French gardens.
He was a frequent visitor to her château, in St. Georges Motel, a small commune near Dreux about 50 miles from Paris, in the 1920s and 1930s, where he completed his last painting before the war.
Only the foundation of Jules Hardouin-Mansart's small château, the pavillon du Roi remains at the top of the slope in Marly park.
At Litzlberg, there is a small island château, which Gustav Klimt frequently visited during the summer.
A conclusive description and visualization can be found in the 1720 German translation of the French La Guerre D ' Espagne ( Cologne: Pierre Marteau, 1707 ), where a galant party of high aristocrats and opera singers has resorted to a small château where they entertain themselves with hunting, play and music in a three day turn:

small and was
On a shelf in the office behind the counter was a small radio dialed permanently on a station which broadcast only vulgar commercials and cheap popular music.
The flat, hard cap was small, but he thrust it to the back of his head.
There was some idle talk, a listless discussion of this or that small happening during the day's drive.
Packing a small suitcase, informing her husband whom she found in Harry's Bar that she was taking a train to Germany to get away for a while, patting his arm, refusing a drink, getting on the train -- all this had only taken her two hours.
Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.
The feeling subsided, it was only a small yearning.
She came from Ohio, from what she called a `` small farm '' of two hundred acres, as indeed it was to farmer-type farmers.
The sun was not yet high and all of them were in the small area of shade cast by the boulder.
While he was handling the multi-million-dollar funding operations of the Government he had to resort to borrowing small sums from friends.
Once, then -- for how many years or how few does not matter -- my world was bound round by fences, when I was too small to reach the apple tree bough, to twist my knee over it and pull myself up.
The double editorial on Two Aspects Of `` The U.S. Spirit '' was subtly calculated to suggest a moral sanction for gambles great as well as small, reflecting popular approval of this questionable attitude toward the highest office in the land.
In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.
He soon quarreled with all the party leaders in the House, and came to be regarded with detestation by regular Democrats as a professional radical leading a small pack of obedient terriers whose constant snapping was demoralizing to party discipline.
There was only one hitch: the small town of Kehl, on the other side of the Rhine, was still under French jurisdiction.
his hospital and doctor bills had been large and his income had been cut until he was receiving little except small rentals on some properties he still owned.
Later, rising ninety, he was beset by publishers for the story of his life and miracles, as he put it, but, calling himself the Needy Knife-grinder, he had spent his time writing short articles and long letters and could not get even a small popular book done.
Now he was married to a beautiful girl, had a small son, and lived in an expensive apartment and worked for the movies.
Though Garibaldi's fight was small shakes compared to Pickett's Charge -- which, like all Southerners, I view in almost Miltonic terms, fallen angels, etc. -- I associated the two.
That exchange was not only possible but commonplace last week in Manhattan, as more and more New Yorkers were discovering 29th Street and Eighth Avenue, where half a dozen small nightclubs with names like Arabian Nights, Grecian Palace and Egyptian Gardens are the American inpost of belly dancing.
Al's Little Cafe was small, dark, narrow, and filled with the mingled scent of beer, tobacco smoke, and Italian cooking.
The nude was small and black-haired and elfin, and was called `` Eloise ''.

small and site
Thus, when you have prepared your foundation and laid the floor, these can be trucked to the site and erected with a small crew of friends in a weekend.
The reaction takes place in the active site, a small part of the enzyme which is usually found in a cleft or pocket lined by amino acid residues, and the rest of the enzyme is used mainly for stabilization.
Crossing rediscovered the original site of the tomb in 1882 and said that all that remained was a small mound and some half buried stones.
They are among the most common artifacts to be found at an archaeological site, generally in the form of small fragments of broken pottery called sherds.
A small file is generated that contains a condensed, computer readable digest of this description that can then be used by content filtering software to block or allow that site.
A popular site among locals is the small island Marabout de Sidi Abderrahmane.
" The rebuilt church site consisted of " a court open to the sky, with five small chapels attached to it.
These renovations unified the small chapels on the site and were completed during the reign of Queen Melisende in 1149, placing all the Holy places under one roof for the first time.
The site was abandoned for almost 100 years, until Christians started to settle permanently in the area: they established the small town of Kastri in about AD 600.
Another remarkable site is the Krämerbrücke, a bridge crossing the Breitstrom, a small tributary of the Gera River.
In 2008, archaeologists working at the site of Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of Siberia uncovered a small bone fragment from the fifth finger of a juvenile member of a population now referred to as Denisova hominins, or simply Denisovans.
These used a small number of standard components, all small enough to be readily transportable in areas with poor or non-existent roads, and were joined together using bolts rather than rivets, reducing the need for skilled labour on site.
It stood in the parish of Lumo, on a site known as Gernikazarra, beside a small shrine.
He wrote of meeting the Chumash people, and of his exploration of a small island on the Alaskan coast on which an important burial site was marked by a sepulchre of " peculiar character " lined with boards and fragments of military instruments lying near a square box covered with mats.
The site of Parsons ' cremation was marked by a small concrete slab and was presided over by a large rock flake known to rock climbers as The Gram Parsons Memorial Hand Traverse.
First small inside rooms framing, then later, whole walls were prefabricated and carried to the construction site.
The area of modern Israel is small, about the size of Wales or half the size of Costa Rica, and is roughly located on the site of the ancient kingdoms of Israel and Judah.
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The North Island Brown Kiwi ; the Okarito Brown Kiwi ( Rowi ), whose distribution is restricted to a single site on the West Coast of the South Island of New Zealand ; and a third distinct population of the North Island Brown Kiwi, the Southern Tokoeka, distributed in the lowland forest to the north of Franz Josef glacier in the South Island and on Stewart Island / Rakiura, with a small population near Haast being another possibly distinct species, the Haast Tokoeka.
The small island of Nosy Boroha off the northeastern coast of Madagascar has been proposed by some historians as the site of the legendary pirate utopia of Libertalia.
As the country gained independence on November 28, 1960, the capital city Nouakchott was founded at the site of a small colonial village, the Ksar, while 90 % of the population was still nomadic.
The inhabitants of a small Mesolithic 1 site in the Levant left little more than their chipped stone tools behind.
The earliest settlement at Mehrgarh — in the northeast corner of the sitewas a small farming village dated between 7000 BCE to 5500 BCE and the whole area covers a number of successive settlements.
Pilgrims who visited the site in 1294 reported only a small church protecting the grotto.

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