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No sixteenth century Spanish grandee could speak in such terms and Schiller was well aware of the fact.
Lansdowne was a Whig grandee and for decades Bowood in Wiltshire and Lansdowne House in London were headquarters of Whiggism.
Either way, she is swiftly becoming a grandee of the art establishment, not to say a national treasure.
However, Caroline Flint, the shadow energy secretary, hit back at the Labour grandee on Thursday.
With only 30 bedrooms, each stylishly decorated and furnished, this aristocratic hideaway is the perfect retreat for those who hanker after the Spanish grandee lifestyle.
Resplendent as a political grandee, he was representative of a high point of aristocratic parliamentarianism before later developments undermined it.
She had been born out of wedlock – her father was a minor grandee in Hereford whom Jane's mother had been nursing.
The grandee expressed passionate opposition to a planned change that it so happened would disadvantage his own political party.
The chateau de Menda belonged to a grandee of Spain, who was at this time living there with his family.
It is thus that an expression of nobility and dignity may be found under the humblest exterior, while the fine clothes of the grandee are often unable to hide the baseness and ignominy of their wearer.
A poor man has but one ewe, and this grandee sheep-biter leaves whole flocks of fat wethers, whom he may knock down, to deuour this.
With his pale eyes, flossy hair and rugged features, Crowell is more evidently the country-music grandee – an imposing Texan in a black silk scarf and matching trilby.
But a Scottish Labour grandee offers a neat concluding point.
Sources close to the investigation, Operation Pallial, confirmed that a Tory grandee is forming part of their inquiry.
With its rare architectural purity of construction, this pedigree grandee is perfect for fish, accompanied by a great white Burgundy. This is the smoothest and mildest double corona.
However, at this time, an anonymous Spanish grandee sold the work through a mediator to the English conservator Sir John Charles Robinson who passed it on to the English collector John Malcolm of Poltalloch.
Alternatively, they could choose a political grandee capable of taking the world stage, but liable to snaffle prerogatives from national governments in the process.
Linking both groups is Don Adriano de Armado, a Spanish grandee whose absurd pretensions to poetic eloquence and love melancholy are squandered on the wench Jaquenetta.
The grandee pondered this impertinence but did not immediately respond.
Today the Mirror reveals how Whitehall officials rewrote a letter SEVEN TIMES to play down the inquiry head's links with a Tory grandee at the centre of the scandal.
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The centenarian accepted with the air of a grandee, and extended his horn snuff-box.
Most likely they belong to one of the family at the Manor, or to some grandee who is staying there.
A mudsill like me trying to push in and help receive an awful grandee like Edward J. Billings?
The highest privilege of a grandee is that of covering his head before the king.
Can you prove yourself worthy of the daughter of a Spanish hidalgo and grandee?
I am an ill-favored Spanish grandee, for whom she feels an aversion to which she will not confess.
They were as strange to their surroundings as my lordly evangelist or the old Spanish grandee on the Fair Isle.
One day, in the streets of Alcal, as he was led to prison on a false accusation, the proud young grandee of Ganda passed him.
Since that letter I have learned more concerning this grandee, for such he is.
Tell her you're a Spanish grandee, and offer her a position as Spanish grandshe.
He signed to the girl to retire with the air of a grandee dismissing some vassal.
The Russian grandee looked a little surprised, and, fixing his eyes steadily upon me, began to wonder what I meant.
This stout young man was an illegitimate son of Count Bezukhov, a well-known grandee of Catherine's time who now lay dying in Moscow.
For instance, next week you may find me the guest of a grandee of Spain, or you may find me off for Venice, or flitting toward Dresden.
He wanted to take the serape of the grandee and swaddle him in it.
Pembroke Howard, lawyer and bachelor, aged almost forty, was another old Virginian grandee with proved descent from the First Families.
He will be falling in love with some grandee next, mark my words!
My grandfather was the son of a grandee who had lost all his property.
Now they beheld a table of solid silver, once the property of an old Spanish grandee.
This Duke Ricardo, as you, sirs, probably know already, is a grandee of Spain who has his seat in the best part of this Andalusia.
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