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Polonius hides behind an arras and yelps when Hamlet's rage endangers the Queen.
Polonius reports that he will spy on Hamlet's visit to Queen Gertrude by stowing himself behind an arras in her bedroom.
Detecting the spy behind the curtain and mistaking him for King Claudius, Hamlet plunges his sword into the arras and slays Polonius.
When Hamlet knifes Polonius, the prince walks behind the arras to make sure he has finished the job, repeatedly stabbing the body.
Spying behind an arras, Polonius perceives Gertrude's danger and cries for help.
So when I, in my role as Polonius, was stabbed behind the arras, I collapsed to the floor and promptly fell asleep.
Yet at a campaign event in Leeds last week, he pulled aside the arras – just a little.
Although it is stressful for babies to cry alone, there is no evidence that crying in a parent's arras is harmful, once all immediate needs are met.
The moral is that good men always get stabbed behind the arras.
The Allied forces co-ordinated a major push from the spring and, in April, the British pushed forward in the battle of Arras.
Five major battles were fought around the town of Arras during World War One.
Twenty British soldiers, who died on the first day of the Battle of Arras in 1917 and were found last year buried with their arms linked, have been reinterred.
One of the most famous hoards of Roman coins is the Arras hoard.
On 3 October, Rupprecht reinforced the 6th Army north of Arras and ordered the IV Cavalry Corps from Valenciennes to Lille.
German attacks were made from the north of Arras to reach the Scarpe but were eventually repulsed by X Corps.
When Mary died in 1482, Maximilian retained Flanders according to the terms of the 1482 Treaty of Arras.
Almost alone in his radicalism on the left was the Arras lawyer Maximilien Robespierre.
The concurrent British Battle of Arras was more limited in scope, and more successful, although ultimately of little strategic value.
Evidence of chariot burials in England begins about 300 BC and is mostly confined to the Arras culture associated with the Parisii.
During their attack at Arras, the British lost 316 air crews and the Canadians lost 114 compared to 44 lost by the Germans.
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Examples from Classical Literature
When there he married the daughter of the rich owner of a spinning factory at arras.
They had remained behind the arras, and had not gone out as she must have supposed.
He had been able to form some estimate of the enemy's strength between arras and the sea.
If this army was defeated, the loss of arras was not the only misfortune to be dreaded.
So reasoning, he felt his soul go forth in kinship with that august company, that multitude whose gaze was forever upon the arras of infinity.
At arras in June, there was almost as much activity as at Ypres.
Not a picture on the walls, not an arras, but had been rent to shreds.
Such was the medival rank to which the cathedral at arras had attained.
The army of Gen. de Castelnau did not extend on its left south of arras.
The latter ran now along the great highway from Tongres to arras.
What is that ghastly face looking out balefully after him from behind the arras?
Behind the arras that you see hanging in the rear of the throne above you is a secret opening.
As the arras fell behind the departing King, De Montfort shrugged his broad shoulders, and turning, left the apartment by another door.
There was a commotion at one side of the room, the arras parted, and Eleanor, Queen of England, staggered toward the throne, tears streaming down her pale cheeks.
John's tide, men will see across the ice, those who dwell in Arras quit their place.
Was it he, or carriere who at Arras commanded mothers to stand by while their children were being guillotined?
Strangely enough, it was not the charter of Bruges which was chosen, but that of Arras.
They tried by wedging to break the Allied front simultaneously at Roye and at Arras.
But between the Oise and Arras we were holding our own only with difficulty.
The passage is translated from a letter from fenelon to the Bishop of Arras.
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