Lower house of the Russian parliament

Usage examples of duma.

The throne room of Duma was as elaborate as the culture and means of the Brokols could make it.

I demonstrate any liking for a person, he runs immediately to Duma and gets him to select that person as an offering.

It was a priest to announce that Duma, the jong, was coming to the temple to pay his respects to Loto-El-Ho-Ganja.

They went through a sort of stupid ritual for a while, Duma standing up every few seconds and bowing seven times.

Ro-ton, Duma, and a few of the more favored priests who got the blood to drink.

Most of the offerings were Brokols who had incurred the displeasure of Duma or Ro-ton, but they did not drink the blood of these.

When Duma entered with his family and entourage, the place was as quiet as a tomb.

While as a special subject in the Crimes, Dumas indulges his curiosity, and that of his reader, to the full.

The beautiful poisoner, Marquise de Brinvilliers, must have suggested to Dumas his later portrait of Miladi, in the Three Musketeers, the mast celebrated of his woman characters.

CELEBRATED CRIMES VOLUME 7, Part 2 By Alexander Dumas, Pere THE COUNTESS DE SAINT-GERAN About the end of the year 1639, a troop of horsemen arrived, towards midday, in a little village at the northern extremity of the province of Auvergne, from the direction of Paris.

Every imaginable cooking instrument lay strewn across an oak table, along with tomes of recipes that Dumas had compiled from all over the world.

He did not intend to show Dumas the exact ingredients, since he wanted to maintain a mysterious air.

Verne vowed to stay close to Alexandre Dumas and learn everything he could from the master.

Monte Cristo two weeks later, Verne sulked in the carriage, staring at the piles of paper on which Dumas had scrawled his comments.

It meant little to them that he had the unflagging support of the literary master, Alexandre Dumas, but neither of his parents were readers of note.