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... I learned from an attache at the embassy, whom I had sometimes seen at Marguerite's, that the poor ...

— Camille (La Dame aux Camilias) • Alexandre Dumas, fils

... from Paris in April, but before he left, the United States minister, Mr. Rives, appointed him honorary attache to his own embassy, a great social advantage to the young man, who was thereby enabled to obtain the entree into court circles in every country that he visited. At the same time the appointment somewhat misled his numerous new ...

— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston

... the hardest propositions into Wall Street. He's just back from buying a railroad, and four or five mines in Mexico. Bohm represents Christianity in the firm. At Newport they call him the military attache to Jerusalem. He's the big chap that sat behind me in the car. He'll marry Kitty as soon as she can get her divorce. Bohm's a jolly old sort—and I tell you, you old sourbelly, you're letting this Southern moss grow over you a bit. Hey? What? Yellow rich isn't half bad, and I'll say ...

— Lady Baltimore • Owen Wister

... were three big generals on the court. I mean big in rank. They were about four feet high in size, and they kept looking at their mustaches in hand-glasses and combing their hair with pocket-combs. They were trying one of their lieutenants for having sold some secret military plans to a Tutonian attache. Now the joke of it is that military attaches are appointed just for the purpose of buying secrets, and everybody knows it. They're licensed to do it. And then when they do just what they're licensed for, everybody makes a fuss. Well, the secrets were sold; there wasn't the slightest ...

— Captain Jinks, Hero • Ernest Crosby

... Professor Yamashita teach me the "Jiudo"—as they seem now to call Jiu Jitsu—the naval attache here, Commander Takashita, used to come around here and bring a young lad, Kitgaki, who is now entering Annapolis. I used to wrestle with them both. They were very fond of Archie and were very good ...

— Letters to His Children • Theodore Roosevelt

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