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Example sentences for "grand ball"

  • In 1834 he chanced to be present at a grand ball given by his wife, when he gambled in a salon with bankers, ambassadors and retired ministers.

  • As senator in 1809, Malin gave a grand ball at Paris, when he vainly awaited the Emperor's appearance, and when Mme.

  • But there was a grand ball in the town, and Karen was invited.

  • After that the pretty flowers come in, and there is a grand ball.

  • Well, next time you go into his garden, you must tell one of the flowers that there is going to be a grand ball at the castle, then that flower will tell all the others, and they will fly away to the castle as soon as possible.

  • Maybe it is true that I have spoiled you, dear, and that you are too young to go to such a grand ball.

  • Three months had elapsed since the grand ball at Mrs. Kirk's, and Queenie Lyle was arraigned before the bar of maternal justice.

  • I see no use in taking a child like you to Mrs. Kirk's grand ball.

  • To celebrate his four children's nuptials, Leopold gave a grand ball.

  • The Mayor had given a grand Ball at the Town Hall, when dancing was kept up until four o’clock in the morning.

  • Laws had given a grand ball at the Corn Exchange.

  • Tomorrow, if the Captain is willing," he jerked his head toward the Portsmouth, "tomorrow evening we shall have a grand ball.

  • He remembered how, nine years ago, Don Jacob Primer Leese had given a grand ball to celebrate the completion of his wooden casa, the first of its kind in Yerba Buena.

  • There is to be a grand ball at the casa of the Senor Leidesdorff," said Inez.

  • Here we had a grand ball given by the citizens, and at which our newly-appointed Colonel and a sergeant's wife made the only couple who came out with the regiment.

  • That day the immense dowry was declared; and on Sunday there was a grand ball, that is, a ball opened by a 'branle' which settled the order of the dancing throughout the evening.

  • On the Wednesday there was a grand ball in the gallery, superbly ornamented for the occasion.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another poem; another thing; grand army; grand ball; grand committee; grand council; grand homme; grand juries; grand marshal; grand nombre; grand officer; grand piano; grand scale; grand seigneur; grand thing; grande armee; grandfather said; grandmother said; hand edge; hath spoken; inconvertible paper; many animals; other vertebrates; tall pine; vertical line; young priest