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...In Pride and Prejudice, Darcy, within a couple of lines, refers to Charles Bingley’s “rapidity” of thought and “celerity” in leaving, when the Old German-derived “speed” would have done for both....
...Medal-ranking at Chelsea baffles me, and I cannot imagine why D’Arcy & Everest’s nursery was denied a gold, despite showing beautifully grown calceolarias, including its own orange-flowered Darcys Dream,...
...Tim Cook added via Twitter that Apple “will be donating to the rebuilding efforts,” and the French luxury and cosmetics group L’Oréal has pitched in another €200m....
...Hours after editors finished their champagne with Rihanna, the parent company of French retailer Casino entered into the protection of the French courts in order to freeze its debts and avoid bankruptcy...
...Visitors could travel at a similar speed to Mr Darcy’s phaeton and stop for a soda at a cliff-top pavilion, whose panoramic form echoed the picnic temples Repton placed in parkland....
...complained a young French man in a video that went viral in China....
...She explains to Darcy: “If I voted Tory I’d be a social outcast. It would be like turning up at Café Rouge on a horse with a pack of beagles in tow.”...
...Its love story may centre on Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy, but their relationship is only cemented after George Wickham, an officer in the militia, seduces giddy Lydia Bennet....
...In Persuasion, Frederick Wentworth made a fortune from the French ships he captured....
...The family produced grapes for sale to vineyards until the 1980s, when prices collapsed, and Guiseppe’s three grandsons, Antônio, Darcy and Paulo, switched to making wine themselves....
...When Lizzy tells Darcy that Lydia is “lost for ever”, she is making it clear that he will never marry her....
...The biggest advances, though, have been made at the largest farms, such as Darcy Ferrarin Jr’s. His soya operations outside Sinop run on customised computer software....
...In Pride and Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet re-encounters Mr Darcy when touring his gardens at Pemberley....
...… The Enlightenment was the age of conversation, when ladies and gentlemen in Scottish pubs, English dining rooms and French salons could become famous through eloquence alone....
...37 (i) Which item of clothing connects The Killing’s ace detective Sarah Lund, Norfolk’s legendary DJ Alan Partridge and the first meeting between Mark Darcy and Bridget Jones in Bridget Jones’s Diary?...
...The Björk collaborator shares vocals with a female singer, Darcy Conroy; he sings in French, she sings in English. Neither has a notable voice, but the music is subtly layered and dreamy....
...In this gripping sequel to Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy find their pleasant matrimonial life rocked by a murder in the woodlands of the Pemberley estate....
...Within minutes, Darcy Willson-Rymer, the UK head of Starbucks, had replied asking which store he visited....
...The latter dislikes him but, like a Gallic Mr Darcy, Clisson nevertheless manages to win her over. They fall in and out of love. He goes back to war. He dies....
...Most agreeable, Darcy....
...It’s a slim volume written by a French professor of literature, Pierre Bayard. The title? How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read. The writer is the FT’s Books Editor...
...Jane Austen’s novel (first composed in the mid 1790s) is actually set 15 years earlier, in 1796, when French invasion was feared....
...Did Wade feel misunderstood like Austen’s Mr Darcy? “Mr Darcy is the kind of guy that people look at and think is arrogant. I hope people don’t look at me that way.”...
...Michael Gove, a new Tory MP, says the Dutch and French referendums that defeated the European constitution “validated Euroscepticism, and enabled Euroscepticism to continue at a lower volume”....
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