Crowns in example sentence

What, living in a great nobleman's mansion, don't you know the Duc de Castries's saying about d'Alembert and Rousseau: "That sort of fellow wishes to argue about everything, and has not a thousand crowns a year?"''Everything becomes known,' thought Julien, 'here as in the Seminary.'

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While the narrative runs to over 17,000 lines, it's apparently unfinished, as the prologue ambitiously introduces 29 pilgrims and promises four stories apiece, and the innkeeper never crowns a victor.

I'm guessing you're thinking of a collection of trees, what we foresters call a stand, with their rugged stems and their beautiful crowns.

I used to lay on the forest floor and stare up at the tree crowns.

There's a wonderful book called "Crowns" that's all these glamour pictures of black women in their church hats.

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