| The effect on the city of Edo was a permanent presence of noblemen and samurai with a huge staff of retainers, attendants and servants. |
| Funds were provided for the eight-strong party of noblemen and ladies, their twelve gentlemen attendants and seventy-five servants. |
| We were all seated in the council, all the noblemen and all the aristocrats and councilors. |
| It was not, as Abler suggests, Hungarian peasant dress that provided the model for the hussar, but that of Magyar noblemen. |
| All of a sudden, he's being asked to dinner by leading writers and noblemen. |
| In effect he was an officer cadet in an army that doubled as military academy for young noblemen on the Continent. |
