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Napoleon

noun

French general who became emperor of the French (1769-1821). Synonyms: Bonaparte, Little Corporal, Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon I.

A rectangular piece of pastry with thin flaky layers and filled with custard cream.

A card game similar to whist; usually played for stakes. Synonym: nap.

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"Napoleon" Quotes from Famous Books

... proceeded had been made by Napoleon, and was remarkably good. It was sheltered, on each side, from the rays of the sun, by groves of cork-trees mingled with fir; by which means, though the day was overpoweringly hot, we did not suffer so much ...

— The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 • G. R. Gleig

... and which is now rapidly increasing with the help of seed and runners on the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts, may be established among our wild flowers. No blossom figures so prominently in European literature. In France, it has even entered the political field since Napoleon's day. Yale University has adopted the violet for its own especial flower, although it is the corn-flower, or bachelor's button (Centaurea cyanus) that is the true Yale blue. Sprengel, who made a most elaborate study of the violet, condensed the result of ...

— Wild Flowers Worth Knowing • Neltje Blanchan et al

... sailed down towards Bass Strait he met with a French expedition, under M. Baudin, who had been sent out by Napoleon to make discoveries in Australia. He had loitered so long on the coast of Tasmania that Flinders had been able to complete the examination of the southern coast before he even approached it. Yet Baudin sailed into the very bays which had already been mapped out, gave ...

— History of Australia and New Zealand - From 1606 to 1890 • Alexander Sutherland

... reckon Napoleon Bonaparte wouldn't have thought this any too fine for him, but it sort of dazzles me. I'm glad somebody's got that bed ready to sleep in. I shouldn't have been sure 'twas meant for that, if they hadn't. There seems to be another room ...

— The Twenty-Fourth of June • Grace S. Richmond

... troops. But it is well to remember in advance that military success is really less satisfactory than any other, because it may depend on a moment's turn of events, and that may be determined by some trivial thing, neither to be anticipated nor controlled. Napoleon ought to have won at Waterloo by all reasonable calculations; but who cares? All that one can expect is, to do one's best, and to take with equanimity ...

— Army Life in a Black Regiment • Thomas Wentworth Higginson

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