1 Well, you soon become tired of singing, and you take a fancy to study diplomacy with the minister's secretary.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 65. A Conjugal Scene. 2 diplomacy and success in arms he became almost supreme ruler.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 77. Haidee. 3 Well, you must become a diplomatist; diplomacy, you know, is something that is not to be acquired; it is instinctive.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasContext Highlight In Chapter 96. The Contract. 4 Hilda heard her father over again, and she gave way, out of mere diplomacy.
5 The fruit of Mrs. Yeobright's diplomacy was indeed remarkable, though not as yet of the kind she had anticipated.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 1: 11 The Dishonesty of an Honest Woman 6 With his son, however, he employed the diplomacy he reserved for important occasions and, adopting a quiet tone, discussed the whole matter.
7 He laughed blandly at her naive diplomacy but listened to what she had to say, and sometimes questioned her carefully about the Penza and Nizhegorod estates.
8 It had taken all of Melanie's diplomacy to persuade them to defer their decision.
9 We cannot settle this problem by diplomacy and suaveness, by "policy" alone.