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Old and New London
… feet wide, and the same in height. The chamber presents a coup d'il of the utmost magnificence, no expense having been …
Survey of London
… not strike us so much as Ranelagh, of which he said, the ' coup d'oeil was the finest thing he had ever seen'. The truth …
Finance and trade under Edward III
… to have been over 60,000 florins of gold 1 This was the "coup de grâce" to the Florentine merchant companies They …
Old and New London
… directly the announcement was made, and netted by that coup 27,000. The "Alley men" wrote letters for shares, and …
Old and New London
… Somerset House and the Houses of Parliament, form a grand coup d'il. The revenue of the Middle Temple alone is said to …
Old and New London
… the Tower by the French apothecary who gave Overbury his coup de gre, fell sick in Flanders, and confessed his crime …