"Annexe" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the most interesting place to see is a sort of annexe, a Tekke village, in the middle of Merv, whose inhabitants have retained the villainous characteristics of this decaying race, the muscular bodies, large ears, thick lips, black beard. And this gives the last bit of local color to be found in the ...
— The Adventures of a Special Correspondent • Jules Verne
... without further preliminaries I should be able to find a lodging there both spacious and free from noise. This hope had not been entertained in vain. The courteous manager of the hotel, Colonel Segesser, allotted to me a whole floor in the annexe on the left, to occupy at my pleasure. I could make myself quite comfortable here in the larger rooms at a moderate price. As the hotel at this time of the year had only a very small staff of servants, it was left to me to make arrangements for some one to wait ...
— My Life, Volume II • Richard Wagner
... blustering in, accompanied by a sixty-four-mile gale which did damage to the extent of blowing down our annexe, tearing the tarpaulin off the stores at the back and ripping the spouting off the Shack. A high sea arose and the conformation of the beach on the north-western side of the isthmus was completely ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson
... the play was over, there was an impromptu dance, for the theatre was an ANNEXE to the ball-room. It was the young folk who began it, but older ladies joined in, and all the men but the hardened sportsmen, who saw a chance to sneak to their snuggery and gun-talk before the time. The really old women, obviously past their dancing days, sat around, and ...
— Sisters • Ada Cambridge
... les resultats de l'instruction de Sarajevo a l'egard des fonctionnaires mentionnes aux points 7 et 8 est annexe a cette note'.[193] ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History |
