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"Oh, you're going to be so impressed with me," he coos as he peers at another of his chefs-d'oeuvre.

From Time Magazine Archive

Mr. Sheldon had no leisure for collecting; and Georgy preferred the gaudy pink-and-blue vases of a Regent-street china-shop to all the dingy chefs-d'oeuvre of a Wedgwood, or the quaint shepherds and shepherdesses of Chelsea.

From Birds of Prey by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Tonight we are to have the opera of 'Iphigenia'—it is one of my magnificent teacher's chefs-d'oeuvre.

From Joseph II. and His Court by Mühlbach, L. (Luise)

It contains, besides, the St John of Raphael and many other chefs-d’oeuvre of the greatest masters in the world.” 

From The Way of All Flesh by Butler, Samuel

These are covered with statues and bass-reliefs, many of the former being in a state of dilapidation which, considering the extreme hardness of the stone, indicates great age, while others are true chefs-d'oeuvre.

From The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok by Leonowens, Anna Harriette