After giving the guards the cigarettes, the aristocrat began arguing with them in Russian.
When the guards disappeared into an office to discuss the situation, I asked the aristocrat what he'd said.
The aristocrat fetched cigarettes from the car, where the magician was excitedly explaining the latest giant illusion he was planning, oblivious to the predicament we were in.
The Titanic, that splendid vessel, is like the 20th century itself, launching forth in all its looming luxe and promise, with Jack as the symbolic new man on the rise -- the aristocrat of the spirit who uses his charm and talent to enter realms from which he would previously have been barred.
Mr Aspinall's secretary, who asked not to be identified and assumed the name Jill Findlay, said she was invited into meetings where the missing aristocrat was discussed by her boss and Sir James Goldsmith, the multi-millionaire businessman.
You'll feel like the guest of an aristocrat in the four individually decorated rooms with their antique tiles and plush antiques.
Ernst vom Rath, a junior legation secretary, took Grynszpan into an office, whereupon the diminutive refugee produced the handgun and shot the German aristocrat twice.
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The faux-aristocrat made like a visiting dignitary, saluting the officer as we crossed the bridge.
When the faux-aristocrat informed them that there was no way he was driving back, the guard pulled out a gun and asked for cigarettes.
The following spring, they set off on foot for the Red River Settlement around Lake Winnipeg in Canada where Scottish aristocrat, the Earl of Selkirk, had promised them land.
The Spanish made a point of burning it in 1625, after a ten-month siege led by the brilliant Genoese aristocrat Ambrogio Spinola.
The British-educated aristocrat's approach is a more modest version of overhauls than those pushed on the campaign trail by Mr. Anwar, who is 65 years old and contesting what he said would be his last election.
The son of an aristocrat, St Francis of Assisi spurned a life of luxury to live with and for the poor.
In 1760, a young aristocrat from the scarp-foot village of Wiston named Charles Goring decided to add his own layer of history to the Chanctonbury earthworks.
Readers learn about the sound of a rippling ship's sail, the look of a stand-alone wooden confessional, the feel of an aristocrat's cloth-of-silver gown.
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And not only because the main character, the low-life aristocrat of drug dealing and binge drinking, Johnny "Rooster" Byron is played by Mark Rylance in a performance of stomping brilliance.
Unfortunately, when it came to the repeat of the first round the many colleagues failed to materialise leaving the good-natured aristocrat and former Tory chairman unable to secure enough support from colleagues.
He much approves of the 18th-century English aristocrat who moved out of his crumbling pile in order to admire, from his new house on the hill, how quickly wild nature took control of the elegant rooms he had lived in.
His chosen name, Francis, honours St Francis of Assisi, the 13th-Century son of an aristocrat who spurned a life of luxury to live with and for the poor.
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The "story" is about how wool has been dyed and hand spun into tweed by islanders for centuries and how in the 1840s it was first brought to the attention of commercial markets by a widowed aristocrat, Lady Dunmore, after she fell in love with the material.
He was a French aristocrat who wanted the Olympics to transcend nationalist sentiment.
The four books, which were published between 1924 and 1928, center on the story of a British aristocrat Christopher Tietjens.
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It took thousands of peasants beyond the Agora to support the work of one intellectual aristocrat such as Plato or Aristophanes.
He was a northern aristocrat the caste that has ruled Nigeria for most of its 37 years since independence and his home town, Katsina, might have been expected to support General Abacha, another northern soldier, who was thought to be about to release General Yar'Adua.
It is unclear when parts of Asia and Asia Minor began using immunotherapy to prevent smallpox deaths, but in the early 18th century, Lady Mary Worthley Montagu, an English aristocrat stationed in Istanbul, made note of the practice and brought it back to England.
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Among the retrospective's titles are: "Satanic Rhapsody, " 1917: Borelli stars as an aging aristocrat who makes a deal with the devil: In exchange for eternal youth, she promises to never fall in love again.
Stevens, who plays aristocrat Matthew Crawley in the ITV period drama, will appear in The Heiress from October.
Tom Reiss' biography of French aristocrat Alex Dumas, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography.
The labour of love of eccentric English aristocrat Sir Stewart Gore-Brown, it is approached down a long, tree-lined drive, flanked by farm buildings, settlements and workers houses, giving it the air of an old feudal domain.
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