What is "eiffel"

Usage examples of "eiffel".

It was with Marie Therese that she had gone to the Louvre for the first time to see the Mona Lisa and other great paintings, together they had gone up the Eiffel Tower to view Paris from on high, and, as the young nanny had explained, for her to see how the Arc de Triomphe resembled the hub of a giant wheel, with the great avenues and boulevards designed by Baron Haussmann stretching out from it like long spokes.

The Attractions of France One of the main attractions is of course the world-famous Eiffel Tower, which created a lot of controversy when it was erected in 1889 because the builder, Alexandre Gustave Eiffel, had presold it as a condominium.

All the rest of his vast history, as furnished by the biographers, is built up, course upon course, of guesses, inferences, theories, conjectures--an Eiffel Tower of artificialities rising sky-high from a very flat and very thin foundation of inconsequential facts.

He admired some of the pictures at the Louvre and most of the sculpture, preferred Sainte-Chapefle to Notre-Dame, took refuge from Sacr&Coeur in the Saint-Pieffe-de-Montmartre, spent an afternoon in Versailles, a day at Chartres, wandered through Les Halles (and ate one of the best luncheons he had in Paris in the packed company of solid merchants and stall-holders testing the meat and cheese they had sold that morning), explored the various little quartiers, looked at Paris from all sides of the Eiffel Tower, loitered at the bookstalls when he meant to be walking through more museums, got some almost-exercise in the parks, took in a couple of night clubs and three movies, tried several restaurants with stars before their names (he balanced this expenditure with bistros and Left Bank brayseries), and blessed the prevalence of the French caM as pleasant easement for tired feet.

He tried to get another look at Craig Eiffel Bosc but caught only the girls’ hyperactivity and the Toyota’s windshield glare.

Not thick enough, though, to obscure the smile on Craig Eiffel Bosc’s SAG-handsome countenance.

There was a clock-radio, an alto saxophone, a fully-fitted toiletries kit, a model of the Eiffel Tower with a thermometer in it - and on and on.

There was a clock-radio, an alto saxophone, a fully-fitted toiletries kit, a model of the Eiffel Tower with a thermometer in it —.

I had my ideas about the city of Paris and when Mother Truczinski brought me a postcard of the Eiffel Tower, I took up the theme and began to drum Paris, to drum a musette though I had never heard one.

The Eiffel Tower picks up signals from underground and compares them with what comes from the sky.

Maybe at this very moment he's selling the Eiffel Tower to an American tourist and going under the name Dupont.

Paris way a slate-grey and dove-color lay spread out like a Turkish carpet, with a silvery band of mist where the river was, out of which the Eiffel Tower stood up like a man wading.

I asked her to give us a lift in her taxi as far as the bridge just opposite the Eiffel Tower.

I grabbed one off a picture of the Eiffel Tower it was and made him write a few words.

He also mentioned Paris (he had it in for the Eiffel Tower) and France a few times.