1 For HIM I am reserving a diplomatic post.
2 So his diplomatic hints remained fruitless.
3 Prince Andrew stayed at Brunn with Bilibin, a Russian acquaintance of his in the diplomatic service.
4 Just as Prince Andrew was a young man who gave promise of rising high in the military profession, so to an even greater extent Bilibin gave promise of rising in his diplomatic career.
5 What the diplomatic matter might be he did not care, but it gave him great pleasure to prepare a circular, memorandum, or report, skillfully, pointedly, and elegantly.
6 I confess I do not understand: perhaps there are diplomatic subtleties here beyond my feeble intelligence, but I can't make it out.
7 In the study were four gentlemen of the diplomatic corps.
8 I asked him for you, and you have been entered in the diplomatic corps and made a Gentleman of the Bedchamber.
9 He pictured the vanity of his diplomatic career in comparison with Pierre's happiness.
10 "We are not diplomatic officials, we are soldiers and nothing more," he went on.
11 The diplomatic corps and the Emperor himself were to be present.
12 With so intellectual a guest as she considered Prince Andrew to be, she felt that she had to employ her diplomatic tact.
13 In attendance on him was the head of the imperial staff, Quartermaster General Prince Volkonski, as well as generals, imperial aides-de-camp, diplomatic officials, and a large number of foreigners, but not the army staff.
14 And Bilibin repeated the actual words of the diplomatic dispatch, which he had himself composed.
15 During his diplomatic career he had more than once noticed that such utterances were received as very witty, and at every opportunity he uttered in that way the first words that entered his head.