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Example sentences for "estrade"

Lexicographically close words:
estopped; estoppel; estos; estoy; estoyent; estranged; estrangement; estrangements; estranges; estranging
  1. Below the estrade stood the bench devoted to the ministers and the secretaries of state.

  2. In the background the throne could be seen on a richly ornamented estrade and beneath a gilded canopy, an easy-chair for the queen, tabourets for the princesses, and chairs for the other members of the royal family.

  3. The land life of the Upper Palæozoic Age was the life of a green swamp forest without flowers or birds or the noises of modern insects.

  4. But hardly had these orders been complied with and fulfilled when the pillars of the estrade gave way and broke down together with the negro.

  5. With a clever but sly smile upon her beautiful face, Astkchicka ordered her servants to lead him off to the stream and put him down on the estrade abandoned by her.

  6. Quoth Tohfah, "The Shaykh led me to the estrade and seated me on a chair of gold beside the throne, and over the dais was a curtain let down, gold and silver wrought and broidered with pearls and jewels.

  7. All eyes turned to the estrade reserved for the Flemish envoys.

  8. Moreover, he had another cause for solicitude, and his mien as wholly preoccupied with it, which entered the estrade the same time as himself; this was the embassy from Flanders.

  9. Facing the entrance, the royal bed stood upon an estrade of several steps, covered with purple drapery.

  10. The answer vouchsafed to Mademoiselle St Pierre from the estrade was given in the gesticulation of a hand from behind the pyramid.

  11. At his estrade I paused, just in front; of course I was not worthy of immediate attention: he proceeded with his lesson.

  12. The whole staff of instructors, male and female, he set aside, and stood on the examiner's estrade alone.

  13. Two groups had by this time formed round the estrade occupied by the dancers.

  14. Circles were speedily formed round the gambling-tables, the ventorillos,[59] or the estrade reserved for the female dancers.

  15. Argenson and Madame d'Estrade had resolved upon raising to the throne of the favorite the young and beautiful Madame de Choiseul, wife of the court usher.

  16. Argenson and Madame d'Estrade awaited the event with anxiety; Quesnai, physician to the king and to the favorite, was also present.

  17. All at once Madame de Choiseul rushed into the room; Madame d'Estrade ran to meet her with open arms.

  18. In France the maximum weight admitted is 14 tons, and the constructor of the Estrade locomotive has kept a little below this figure.

  19. Estrade having provided more surface than is to be found in any other engine, must be successful.

  20. Nansouty's paper has been prepared with much care, and contains a great deal of useful data quite apart from the Estrade engine.

  21. Estrade has our best wishes for his success.

  22. Estrade could not persuade any railway company to try it for him, and finally he applied to the French government, who have at last sanctioned the carrying out of experiments with it on one of the state railway lines.

  23. Estrade under abnormal conditions as to weight and adhesion?

  24. Estrade proposed to do, in a system responding to the requirements of the constructor.

  25. Nansouty draws a comparison between the diameters of the driving wheels and cylinders of the principal locomotives now in use and those of the Estrade engine as set forth in the following table.

  26. Estrade no injustice, we reproduce here in a condensed form, and in English, the arguments in its favor contained in a paper written by M.

  27. By the time the different parts of the principal procession were assembled in the square, all the seats of the estrade were crowded, with the exception of those reserved for the bailiff and his immediate friends.

  28. So the two girls climbed the steps of the estrade together.

  29. The estrade was invaded; everybody wished to shake hands with Mutimer.

  30. In Islington the leaguers met in a room behind a coffee-shop, ordinarily used for festive purposes; benches were laid across the floor, and an estrade at the upper end exalted chairman and lecturer.

  31. In the Levant the estrade of a divan is called Sopha (Blondel), from which comes our "sofa.

  32. I seated myself amiddleward the saloon, misdoubting, and as I sat, there came down on me from the estrade seven naked men, without other clothing than leather girdles about their waists.

  33. Then we sat down on the edge of the estrade and presently I espied a closet beside me; so I looked into it and my friend said to me, 'What seest thou?

  34. I entered, flinging the door wide and striding in fast, as it was my wont to do now; for I had found that in entering with aplomb, and mounting the estrade with emphasis, consisted the grand secret of ensuring immediate silence.

  35. What is certain is that the Duke of Mantua's secretary, by name Matthioli, was arrested in 1679 through the agency of Abbe d'Estrade and M.

  36. As he said these words he made an attempt to reach his weapons, but de l'Estrade and Barnier prevented him by throwing themselves on him, and succeeded in knocking him down after a fierce struggle.

  37. De l'Estrade threw himself on the nearest of the three, and, without using his sword, struck him with his fist.

  38. The tables that are placed on the estrade of every room, the stools, the little cups out of which rice brandy is sipped, the small teapots, the slender eating sticks, have all an artistic form or look.

  39. We took our places on the estrade I have mentioned, squatting in groups of three or four round several low tables.


  40. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "estrade" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.