Lexicographical Neighbors of Duras
Literary usage of Duras
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1888)
"duras Compass,' 1658. 6. ' Altum Silentium, or Silence the Duty of Sainte under
every sad Providence ; a Sermon preached after the death of a Daughter by ..."
2. Historical Memorials of Westminster Abbey by Arthur Penrhyn Stanley (1882)
"Duke of Newcastle, are interred three remarkable persons, transferred in 1739-40
from the French church in the Savoy— Louis duras, Earl of Feversham, ..."
3. The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint-Simon on the Reign of Louis XIV and the Regency by Louis de Rouvroy Saint-Simon (1900)
"AT the beginning of October, news reached the Court, which was at Fontainebleau,
that M. de duras was at the point of death. Upon hearing this, Madame de ..."
4. Memoires of the Comtesse de Boigne edited by Charles Nicoullaud (1908)
"CHAPTER VII Mme. de duras secures the appointment of the Duc de Rauzan as Director
... Mme. de duras fell into this snare the more easily as she was greatly ..."
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