Unfortunately, their chef-d'oeuvre wasn't that good.    From Wordnik.com.  [It wasn't that bad holiday with parents Pt.1] Reference

'Le glorieux chef-d'oeuvre de l'homme, c'est de vivre a propos.'.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference

The "Lady in white" is the chef-d'oeuvre of all comic operas in French, as Mozart's Figaro is in German.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

No doubt we can admire the architectonic structure of these systems aesthetically, as we would un chef-d'oeuvre de l'art.    From Wordnik.com.  [METAPHYSICAL IMAGINATION] Reference

It is, indeed, his 'chef-d'oeuvre', very delicate, earnest, and at the same time ironical, a most entrancing family story.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

Oh, Mæcenas! is there no difference between the chef-d'oeuvre of the great Stickleback, and the town of Dover and a post-chaise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844] Reference

What shall we give to our painter for his chef-d'oeuvre?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

At the end of that time he had accomplished a chef-d'oeuvre.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Conspirators The Chevalier d'Harmental] Reference

This brought me to the refectory, where the chef-d'oeuvre of Paul.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dreams, Waking Thoughts, and Incidents] Reference

He showed the youthful bard a thousand glaring defects in his chef-d'oeuvre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference

He had the sensations of one who comes suddenly into the presence of a chef-d'oeuvre.    From Wordnik.com.  [Penrod] Reference

All gathered round the picture; all admired, and with justice: it was a chef-d'oeuvre.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference

Fifteen years ago when he produced his chef-d'oeuvre on Smollett his hopes had run high.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tutors' Lane] Reference

In Germany it has passed through several editions, and is there regarded as the chef-d'oeuvre of the author.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed] Reference

Literature, "a pleasant subject for that chef-d'oeuvre of wit and poetry, the 'Archaeological Epistle,' written by Mr. Mason.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

A year and a half before, the 20th of February, 1828, there had been given at the Opera the chef-d'oeuvre of Auber, La Muette de.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duchess of Berry and the Court of Charles X] Reference