He resolved to give up princely life and become a wandering ascetic in search for the Truth. |
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The robe, the pujari said, is replaced every year by the former princely family of Kolhapur. |
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Indira Gandhi finally disestablished them in the 1970's, when all the princely states were denied their privy purses. |
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Paul's answer is to change his first name via deed poll for the princely sum of just a tad under thirty quid. |
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At 60 I was given the princely sum of 9 pence per week which has now gone up to 10 pence per week. |
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As a lad, I used also to cycle to the stadium and leave my bike in someone's back yard for the princely sum of one old penny. |
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Cottier and Company have converted into a place of princely but peaceful splendor. |
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Some of the greatest of the fine arts were produced for princely or noble patrons. |
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He held his head high and regal, and all of the distinguished princely magnificence was back in his bearing as he marched toward the field. |
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The princely State of Pataudi was established in 1804 by the British when Faiz Talab Khan aided them in their battle against the Marathas. |
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These displays soon became celebrated as exemplars of enlightened princely patronage and magnificence. |
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The Liechtenstein princely treasures represent Europe's greatest surviving royal art collection, after that of the British. |
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Not many of them know that there were 93 princely States when India became free. |
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Shifting from one cramped position to another, she caught a glimpse of Malcolm, looking very princely in his crown and royal robes. |
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Mr. Rochester was a princely and heroic master, and, despite his ireful frown and brusque, moody manner, Jane felt at ease in his presence. |
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As the contagion of revolutionary ideas spread to Italy, every government, princely or republican, strove to repress it. |
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Her princely lover accused the knight and challenged him to a combat of arms to prove his innocence or guilt. |
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The bed itself was devoid of such imagery, and the princely coronet on the headboard was heraldically appropriate. |
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The flamboyant court of Burgundy was a spectacular expression of princely prestige and affluence. |
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He lost a match and noted in his book that he had to part with the princely sum of three pounds, five shillings. |
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You know, Ramirez, sometimes you seem as common as muck, and other times you're the most princely person I've met. |
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A few minutes later, a postman brought a money order, a princely sum remitted by a devotee. |
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Above the imperial doors the onlooker discovers the princely bicephalous eagle. |
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The new tough-mindedness was enforced, above all, with executive pay packages that offered princely rewards if stock prices rose. |
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Cabinets of coins, medals, and bronze statuettes became a characteristic feature of German princely collections. |
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Many Rajput kings retained a status as rulers of princely states under the British. |
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In India, Warren Hastings's redoubtable defence of Clive's acquisitions staved off both French revanche and princely rebellion. |
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In the former princely states, as also in the zamindaries till their abolition soon after independence, concubinage was a recognised custom. |
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The German princely family of Hohenzollern deposed him from the kaisership. |
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Wooden statues and princely crowns were taken off from the pediment, while the high tent-like top was transformed into an ordinary roof with two slopes. |
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In the Jockey ad, half of Jim Palmer's princely, brooding face is fully lighted, the other half is masked in shadow. |
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The grand opening ceremony cost a princely sum of Rs 269 and 8 annas. |
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Machiavelli relied heavily on the dichotomy between republican and princely government, Montesquieu on a trichotomy of republics, monarchies, and despotisms. |
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This biscuit porcelain example, with its marbled black surround bearing its identifying label, came from the collection of a German princely family. |
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He immediately refers back to the episode he had witnessed, using it as his main example of the need to remain constantly on one's guard against princely duplicity. |
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Very princely of him to surprise her with a freshly mowed lawn. |
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It is inconceivable that Spenser, the 'poet loved of the poets', and the pattern of princely gentlemen, advanced this suggestion from personal vaingloriousness. |
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Canon McHugh, presented each of us with a half-crown, the equivalent of twenty-five pence in today's currency, which at that time was indeed a princely sum. |
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His last jaunt to Bermuda cost the princely sum of 27.50 a night. |
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The innumerable nuances and petty snobberies of noble life before 1789 were reproduced and magnified in the princely courts of Turin and then Koblenz. |
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Of the five small kingdoms or princely states which the author explores in this fascinating Himalayan odyssey, only Nepal and Bhutan are fully independent nations. |
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As Home Minister between 1947 and 1950, Vallabhbhai Patel integrated the princely states, thus altering the politics and geography of modern India. |
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Members of the princely families are the first class citizens. |
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In the final scene, the young woman with her sight restored recognizes Charlie, the down-and-out tramp, as the rich and princely hero of her imagination. |
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He explains the origin of this economic achievement in the concentration of big spending consumers in royal and princely capital cities, such as London and Paris. |
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Nonsuch's architectural scheme reflects the extent of Henry VIII's desire to compete with Francis I of France, at least in terms of princely magnificence. |
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It was of gigantic size, it was of princely splendor and the wood carving on the completely gilded outside was so elaborate and varied that the surface seemed to be alive. |
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So, for the princely sum of 75 pence, I placed an advertisement. |
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A fellow's salary is no princely sum, and in 1965 foreign holidays were still relatively unusual, so the newlyweds honeymooned in Suffolk for a week. |
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All other historic member states of the HRE were either dissolved or are republican successor states to their princely predecessor states. |
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These forts and palaces are the largest illustrations and legacy of the princely states of India. |
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The Rajputana Agency contained more than 20 princely states, most notable being Udaipur State, Jaipur State, Bikaner State and Jodhpur State. |
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Both Kingdom of Mysore and Hyderabad State became princely states in British India in 1799 and 1798 respectively. |
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The first wave of persecutions targeted primarily the princely clans of Russia, notably the influential families of Suzdal. |
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By 1300, most of these republics had become princely states dominated by a Signore. |
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It was especially convenient for referring to the region comprising both the British India and the princely states under British Paramountcy. |
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India and Pakistan fought several wars over the former princely state of Jammu and Kashmir. |
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In 1880, the standing Indian Army consisted of 66,000 British soldiers, 130,000 Natives, and 350,000 soldiers in the princely armies. |
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Although there were nearly 600 princely states, the great majority were very small and contracted out the business of government to the British. |
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In the British colonial era indirect rule under a paramount power existed, such as the princely states under the British Raj. |
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Hundreds of princely states, states ruled by monarchs in treaty of subsidiary alliance with Britain, were integrated into India and Pakistan. |
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The poets of this period were professionals who worked in the various princely courts in Wales. |
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Within the princely states external affairs, defence and most communications were under British control. |
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Llywelyn was a descendant of the senior line of Rhodri Mawr and therefore a member of the princely house of Gwynedd. |
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The buildings were initially interpreted as a monastery, but later as a princely stronghold and trading post. |
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The oldest monuments, cairns, were followed by princely tombs and stone rows. |
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Here the princely hero is a nondancing cavalier amid the many swan-maidens who resemble the one with whom he is falling in love. |
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Like his predecessor, Clement V, Pope John centralized power and income in the Papacy and lived a princely life in Avignon. |
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In October 1859, a joint offensive by British, Gaekwad and other princely states troops ousted the rebels and recaptured the region. |
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During the latter years of his life he derived a princely income from the success of his enterprise. |
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Proud once and princely was the mansion, ere a succession of spendthrifts waned away its splendour. |
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The late 18th century saw the nationalisation of royal or princely art collections across mainland Europe. |
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In January 1858, many sepoys received shelter from the royal family of the princely state of Hill Tippera. |
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The many princely states that made up this area began warring amongst themselves. |
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The only princely member state of the Holy Roman Empire that has preserved its status as a monarchy until today is the Principality of Liechtenstein. |
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The princely house of Suzdal and Nizhny Novgorod, which has been known since the 14th century as the House of Shuisky, descends from Andrey II of Vladimir. |
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Unlike comparable museums in continental Europe, the National Gallery was not formed by nationalising an existing royal or princely art collection. |
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The princely states were not affected and remained under British guidance. |
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The 562 princely states that were protected by but not directly ruled by the Raj became administrative parts of South Asia upon joining Union of India or Dominion of Pakistan. |
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One major change was the rejection of separate princely states. |
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Then he became aware of a princely figure in a caftan of green sarcenet clasped about his loins by a long tongued belt from which hung a scimitar hilted in ivory and gold. |
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As rock's aristocracy celebrated in princely style Mancunian rapper Daz Sampson battled it out for Britain for one of the most laughable prizes in music. |
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Their policy was sometimes summed up as Divide and Rule, taking advantage of the enmity festering between various princely states and social and religious groups. |
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