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  • Derrick Lee Weeden is a forcefully smooth, cagey and unexpectedly noble, villainous Count de Guiche

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: I Wanna Be a Pundit 2006

  • May 30th, 2006 at 12:28 am rat bastahd- it is Guiche of me to say so, but coriolanus is in Cyrano.

    Firedoglake » Late Nite FDL: Mo’ Music 2006

  • Madame enchants me; I can forgive that royal minx her most serious offences; I can thrill and soften with the King on that memorable occasion when he goes to upbraid and remains to flirt; and when it comes to the “allons, aimez-moi donc,” it is my heart that melts in the bosom of de Guiche.

    Memories and Portraits 2005

  • Madame and Madame de Chaumont ran in great alarm to Monsieur, and covered his face with their handkerchiefs, so that the Comte de Guiche had time to get out of the room, and escape by the staircase.

    The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

  • Her vibrant red hair was pulled up to one side and back, with a cascade of large curls falling down to brush one bare shoulder as she turned her head to speak to du Guiche.

    Sins Of Commission Susan Wright 1994

  • Her vibrant red hair was pulled up to one side and back, with a cascade of large curls falling down to brush one bare shoulder as she turned her head to speak to du Guiche.

    Sins Of Commission Susan Wright 1994

  • There is a marvellous exchange in Cyrano de Bergerac in which the Conte de Guiche, after referring to Don Quixote, reminds Cyrano that: "Windmills, if you fight with them, may swing round their huge arms, and cast you down into the mire."

    Entrepreneurs in a Competitive World 1985

  • Nothing was seen but people, oppressed with surprise that overwhelmed them, meditative, agitated, some irritated, some but ill at ease, like La Force and Guiche, who freely admitted so to me.

    Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete Various

  • Guiche and the Prince of Luxembourg worked like the rest, and just as the door crashed through the last of the weapons were brought into the

    The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

  • Guiche, to join the army under the Prince of Condé, when, on the last day of his journey, and whilst passing through a forest, he falls in with, and disperses a party of Spanish marauders who are robbing and ill-treating two travellers.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. Various

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