The officer dined with Steinmetz, and under the careful treatment of that diplomatist inaugurated a reign of military autocracy, which varied pleasingly between strict discipline and boyish neglect.
Thus with the skill of a veteran diplomatist he raised around him friendly governments, and availed himself of all the resources of politics to make amends for the inefficiency of the Directory.
During this period his labors as a statesman and a diplomatistwere even more severe than his toils as a general.
Jonescu kept aloof from office, and the post of second delegate fell to Rumania's greatest diplomatist and philologist, M.
An eminent diplomatist who possessed considerable claims to be vouchsafed an interview was put off from week to week, until at last, by dint of perseverance, as it seemed to him, the President consented to see him.
One need not be a diplomatist to realize the amazement of "the Rumanian government" on receiving this abrupt behest.
So you're a diplomatistinto the bargain--a great diplomatist!
Yes, yes, one has to be a diplomatistand set a fox to catch a fox.
The young diplomatistlooked up with an air of interrogation.
Sant' Ilario justly concluded that his companion's informant was a lady, and probably one in whom the diplomatist was interested.
When the young diplomatist laid his own aside and went out, Giovanni followed him, and they left the club together.
You can go to Del Ferice, and if you are a diplomatist you may persuade him that it is in his interest not to let you fail.
It gives a complete view of the sentiments and opinions by which the policy of Lord Palmerston has been dictated as a diplomatist and statesman.
It is in truth a complete Boswell sketch of the greatest diplomatist of the age.
Sir John Mason, another diplomatist of the same period, was the son of a cowherd at Abingdon.
Sir Henry Unton, or Umpton, who died in 1596, was both diplomatist and soldier of the time of Elizabeth.
If in his brother Jonathan it did not possess so brilliant a soldier, it had in him an astute diplomatist who knew how to exploit the internal troubles of Syria.
Slighted and thwarted by the Court, the old diplomatist watched for the signs of a falling Government, and when the familiar omens met his view he turned to the quarter from which its successor was most likely to arise.
A diplomatist was called to power who had hitherto by Napoleon's own desire represented the Austrian State at Paris.
When asked by the incredulous diplomatist at what date he expected to perform so great a feat, Cavour quietly answered: 'In the first week of May.
Various private despatches had got out into the world and made trouble for their authors, and even so eminent a diplomatistas Mr. George P.
Thereupon the diplomatist simply bowed, made no answer, returned home at once, and sent his resignation to his government.
Caught in his own snare, the unlucky diplomatist was in agony; he fidgeted to get away, his countenance expressed grievous uneasiness, his lean legs were convulsively agitated.
Recently married, the meagre diplomatist had not dared to leave his wife at Saxe-Tolpelhausen, for fear of accidents; he would not lose sight of her, and had brought her to Karlstadt in the arrogant belief that danger vanished in his presence.
Invested with unlimited powers, the diplomatist was ready to insert in the contract almost any conditions Prince Maximilian chose to dictate to him.
He was a very clever man, a diplomatist who had lived in a great many places and known a great many people, and was entirely on the Royalist side, but he thought their cause was a lost one, at least for a time.
Gortschakoff, Prince, quoted on death of Thiers; at Berlin Congress; a diplomatist of the old-fashioned type.
He was a diplomatist with some years of service behind him, and was perfectly au courant of all the routine and habits of the Foreign Office.
The diplomatistslightly sneered, casting a look of pity on his companion.
A foreign diplomatist of distinction had pinned Lord Marney, and was dexterously pumping him as to the probable future.
Lord Deloraine and Mr Ormsby passed by; thediplomatist addressed them: "You have not been to the Chamber?
But do you think that the Duke of Wellington--" and here the diplomatist stopped and looked up in Lord Marney's face, as if he would convey something that he would not venture to express.
Only, you understand, the less a diplomatist I am, the more precise my instructions must be.
If the day ever comes when a diplomatist tells the truth, he will be the first diplomatist in the world; for no one will believe him, and he will attain, unopposed, his ends.
Sir Dudley Carleton was a diplomatistof respectable abilities, and well trained to business and routine.
The diplomatist preserved a mournful silence as he left the drawing room.
On this especial occasion the only guest asked to meet the Abbe Gerard was the celebrated diplomatist and millionaire the Prince Paul Pomerantseff.
He had distinguished himself as a diplomatist and as a soldier, and had left traces of his indomitable will in many State papers as on many an enemy's face during the period of the Crimean war.
The Diplomatist world of Berlin is in a fuss; Queen Sophie and "the Minister of Denmark," with other friendly Ministers, how busy!
The diplomatist looked up startled at this unexpected intelligence.
They found that the ambassador had proven himself a profound diplomatist in this, as in other things.
Wallmoden was not the least surprised at the impression which his wife's beauty and manners made upon them all, and he took it, as the true diplomatist takes all things, as a matter of course.
Or perhaps you'd like to educate him in your own school, and make a diplomatist of him?
My diplomatist is getting liker and liker to him every day.
The Countess had the diplomatist on one side, the Duke on the other.
