Crossword-Solution: RIVIERA 7 letters, 106 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

Hollingsworth, lounging away from the window, had joined himself to a languidly convivial group of men to whom, in phrases as halting as though they struggled to define an ultimate idea, he was expounding the cursed nuisance of living in a hole with such a damned climate that one had to get out of it by February, with the contingent difficulty of there being no place to take one’s yacht to in winter but that other played-out hole, the Riviera.

Fisher, viewing the Riviera as an easy introduction to London society, had guided their course thither.

Roby--” The End of Xingu THE VERDICT June 1908 I had always thought Jack Gisburn rather a cheap genius--though a good fellow enough--so it was no great surprise to me to hear that, in the height of his glory, he had dropped his painting, married a rich widow, and established himself in a villa on the Riviera.

Oddly enough, a baker’s half-dozen of ducal coronets are worn at this moment, in France, by small and sprightly women, who have shaken the dust of centuries from those ornaments and sport them with a decidedly modern air! It is the members of this clique who, in Paris during the spring, at their châteaux in the summer and autumn, and on the Riviera after Christmas, lead the amusements and strike the key for the modern French world.

With a superhuman effort Victor Emmanuel controlled himself, and turning to the Ambassador, said: "I fear my tongue ran away with me!" With a smile and a bow the great French diplomatist remarked: "_Sire_, I am so deaf I have not heard a word your Majesty has been saying!" The fashion of coming to the Riviera for health or for amusement, dates from the sixties, when the Empress of Russia passed a winter at Nice, as a last attempt to prolong the existence of the dying Tsarewitsch, her son.