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English vocabulary examples in context:   academician

Vocabulary in context: academician -- Example 1.
The Institute had the academician, Napoleon Bonaparte, stricken from its list of members.

Vocabulary in context: academician -- Example 2.
de Vaublanc, the reformer of the Institute by a coup d'etat, the distinguished author of numerous academicians, ordinances, and batches of members, after having created them, could not succeed in becoming one himself.

Vocabulary in context: academician -- Example 3.
The inspector cast on Marius such a glance as Voltaire might have bestowed on a provincial academician who had suggested a rhyme to him; with one movement he plunged his hands, which were enormous, into the two immense pockets of his top-coat, and pulled out two small steel pistols, of the sort called 'knock-me-downs.'

Vocabulary in context: academician -- Example 4.
It was not only the brilliant phalanx of virtuous dowagers, generals and academicians, to whom he was bound by such close ties, that Swann compelled with so much cynicism to serve him as panders.



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