For a long time Gianni was known as a playboy, dallying with aristocrats and movie stars before finally sorting out his inheritance. |
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Nineteenth-century British society distinguished clearly between aristocrats, gentlemen, and common workingmen. |
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What, cough syrup and Lysol-in-a-cup not good enough for you fancypants, la-di-da aristocrats? |
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In the south, where aristocrats sponsored the first settlements, a landowning elite held sway over an impoverished population. |
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The aristocrats in Mr Cameron's blood line include numerous dukes and earls, including the Herbert Earls of Carnarvon. |
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But the Foreign Ministries of Europe were staffed by aristocrats motivated more by considerations of amour propre than common sense. |
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The aristocrats were the skilled tradesmen and craftspeople such as stonemasons, carpenters, engineers and printers. |
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As we enter the Great Nicholas Hall, the opulent room is filled with thousands of aristocrats dancing the mazurka in gorgeous period costumes. |
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By selling off heirlooms and ingratiating themselves with prison staff and exiled aristocrats the twins eventually secure his release. |
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Sword play, or fencing, was once the sport of aristocrats, inaccessible to the masses, mainly because they could not afford a sword. |
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They were aristocrats with little interest in piddling estates of 30 hides. |
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All are born aristocrats, and their bearing is dignified, even though at times it is also a tiny bit arrogant and patronizing. |
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And very few of them are presided over by local aristocrats or clan chiefs. |
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Yet, we do hear of British aristocrats making overtures to Rome, and even dedicating offerings on the Capitol of the world's pre-eminent city. |
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Like many other aristocrats, he serves the revolutionary cause, using the nom de guerre of Louis Sade. |
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And though not all redcoats are aristocrats, it is the noblesse and the classes abutting it who still run the show. |
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Among his debtors were many Russian aristocrats and noblemen, both Russian and foreigners. |
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Easter Sunday of 1459, Vlad invited all of the aristocrats, called boyars, who had played a role in his father's death, to a feast. |
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Santayana was an Anglophiliac and pandered shamelessly to aristocrats and the smart set. |
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They had leapt from the Middle Ages to modern war by unhorsing the aristocrats. |
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The artistic milieu of late-nineteenth century France is the world in which he moves, surrounded by artists, aristocrats, mountebanks and tarts. |
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Obviously, she hadn't been watching the aristocrats around her with their barely formed simpers. |
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As moneylenders, goldsmiths conducted regular business with aristocrats, and gentlemen, and, increasingly, the agents of the Crown. |
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Though these comforts are the paraphernalia associated with aristocrats, priority for the same assumes a logic. |
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With a 10th win in 11 league games assured, the Old Trafford aristocrats trod water slightly after the interval. |
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Open a little over a month, the place is already overrun with West Village dignitaries and hordes of beady-eyed food aristocrats. |
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Among the Basotho, it is customary for aristocrats to marry within the clan. |
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Although the Roman aristocrats despised the barbarians, many also believed that they could use them to their own purposes. |
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But socially he was entirely at home in those Third Republic salons where politicians mixed with aristocrats, diplomats, and writers. |
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In Greece, rich aristocrats used gold and silver in life, while poor rustics used wooden vessels. |
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But much of the inner unrest of the fifth century was also due to the attempts by senatorial aristocrats to expand their power. |
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For centuries the House of Lords was made up of old aristocrats, those who were born lords or ladies. |
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In 1792 the September terror took place in France, in which thousands of aristocrats were executed, including the King. |
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So the aristocrats who sought elections as tribunes had to be able to play the demagogue. |
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The law stood above kings and aristocrats with a constitution that had to maintain a balance of power between the rival institutions. |
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Up until the Radical Covenanters confronted the government forces at Bothwell Brig they still had the support of some minor aristocrats. |
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We were all seated in the council, all the noblemen and all the aristocrats and councilors. |
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These are the new collectors, as opposed to aristocrats or members of other wealthy families who have inherited art. |
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The industrialists are dressed as bewigged aristocrats of pre-revolutionary France, with Hearst as Cardinal Richelieu. |
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He dressed in rags and rarely took a bath, which fascinated the carefully washed and perfumed aristocrats round the tsar and his family. |
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A liberated people had nothing to fear from the despots and aristocrats of feudal Europe. |
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Amidst lean bishops, solemn aristocrats and pale ladies who died in childbirth, Duke Robert lies vibrant and dishy through history. |
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This was also the spot where more than 1000 aristocrats were executed at the guillotine during the French Revolution. |
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The effete aristocrats must rely on the butler's practical skills to survive, and the balance of power shifts from master to servant. |
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These aristocrats are wicked, all right, but they're not terribly decadent. |
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And, in fairness to those ermined aristocrats, they could afford contempt. |
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They came together in a variety of salons, private academies, libraries and the like, enjoying the discreet but effective patronage of princes, ministers, and aristocrats. |
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Sure, there are some colorful English aristocrats still around, but is the age of the delightfully nutty toff at an end? |
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The painter's orphic sleight of hand was abetted by arcane titles that conjure profligate aristocrats, sexual libertines, adepts of the dark arts and drugged esthetes. |
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It is ruled by a corrupt kleptocracy of aristocrats who use their control of state monopolies and even the tax system to enrich themselves at the public's expense. |
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The late nineteenth century now seems as much all age of aristocrats and peasants, of religious revival and renascent monarchies as one of capitalists and imperialists. |
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Gradually, in the way that wealthy whites discovered the jazz clubs of Harlem in the 1920s, the aristocrats started hanging around the fado clubs. |
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It swept away the old feudal order of aristocrats and kings. |
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Greek and Roman aristocrats studied law, philosophy, and the art of public speaking in order to fulfil the political vocation indicated by their birth. |
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Not only does Fancy contradict southern ideals but in her saintlike manner, she possesses qualities nobler than those of the aristocrats with whom she seeks to identify. |
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Between 1825 and 1865, however, he wins recognition among aristocrats by amassing a fortune from gambling and selling cotton and marrying into a prominent family. |
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In the age of aristocrats everything was subordinated to family bloodlines. |
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Likud aristocrats, children of Irgun fighters, looked at the numbers and gave up on the Whole Land. |
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The aristocrats of plants grown in pots are bonsai, perfectly normal garden trees skilfully trained to grow as miniatures ranging from three inches to three feet tall. |
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France is peopled with patriots in red caps and tricoloured cockades, armed with national muskets and sabres, sullen and suspicious, who instinctively curse all aristocrats. |
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Truth be told, the Duke was, for lack of a better word, a blabbermouth, and it was not long before the whole group of aristocrats before the fire knew the true story. |
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The beginning of the winter brought a new season of parties and gatherings with which the aristocrats sought to dispel the gloominess of this permanently twilit world. |
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Ghazal singing, earlier an art form restricted to the nawabs and aristocrats, was bought to the people by Begum Akhtar and later popularised by Pankaj Udhas. |
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They still went about armed even in peacetime, unlike Roman aristocrats in times of empire, and drunken brawls or even complicated feuds might break out at any time. |
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Longtime neighbors embraced the same-sex couples who were shelling out thousands of dollars to fix mansions and split-levels once built by aristocrats of European descendants. |
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A number of French chefs, hairdressers, dress designers, and perfumers accompanied the wave of aristocrats and introduced French cuisine and fashion to America. |
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It's no longer in thrall to important personages and aristocrats. |
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It had nothing to do with militarism or with the violent sports that had brought aristocrats and plebeians together around the prize-fight or cock-fight. |
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That's what the aristocrats of 18 th-century Venice did when they celebrated Carnevale, their last chance to indulge the sins of the flesh before Lent. |
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Indeed gothic novels, while depicting evil aristocrats flouting law and convention, also betrayed a nostalgia for the feudal order and aristocratic values. |
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Great aristocrats no more become gentlemen of the bedchamber out of subservience than they became grooms of the stool out of a desire to wipe the royal bottom. |
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Despite being a genuinely ill hypochondriac, he wrote about aristocrats, chamber music, church steeples, Parisian high life, snobbery, and interior design. |
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The shopkeepers and aristocrats, peasants and military grandees, nuns and nudes all share an exaggerated pudginess that gives them a pleasant comic quality. |
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It's the tale of a delicate, sheltered little prince who leaves his castle and ventures into a world with no patience for effeminate and ineffectual aristocrats. |
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The Senate, the voice of the aristocrats and equestrians, contended with the plebian masses for control of Rome, and directed the generals in foreign policy. |
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It was especially attractive to royalty, powerful aristocrats and politicians as well as intellectuals, artists and political activists. |
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In Spain, local aristocrats maintained independent rule for some time, raising their own armies against the Vandals. |
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This intermixing of patricians and aristocrats was most prominent in the second half of the century. |
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The Mymensingh Museum houses the personal antique collections of Bengali aristocrats in central Bengal. |
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Some wealthy aristocrats had an orchestra in residence at their estate, to entertain them and their guests with performances. |
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In the Baroque era, orchestras performed in a range of venues, including at the fine houses of aristocrats, in opera halls and in churches. |
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Scottish aristocrats and other place seekers made their way to London, to compete for high positions in government. |
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The reduction in taxes weakened the king's position, and many aristocrats lost the basis for their surplus, reducing some to mere farmers. |
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At one time, many working-class youngsters went into 'service' with the local aristocrats as chambermaids or bootboys. |
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There are paintings of haughty aristocrats in all their finery and of boisterous booze-ups. |
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In 1961, Elizabeth Sewell argued that Shakespeare aligns himself not with the aristocrats of the play, but with Bottom and the artisans. |
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A new type of ruler emerged intent on breaking the power of the aristocrats and reforming their state's bureaucracies. |
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James Fraser argues that Wilfrid's family were aristocrats from Deira, pointing out that most of Wilfrid's early contacts were from that area. |
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However, aristocrats continued to monopolise the officer corps of almost all early modern armies, including their high command. |
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The defense of the state now rested on the commoners, not on the aristocrats. |
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Every spring and fall, from ordinary Manchus to aristocrats, all had to take riding and archery tests. |
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The German Enlightenment won the support of princes, aristocrats and the middle classes and it permanently reshaped the culture. |
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These were mainly supported by aristocrats and churchmen who could afford to sustain them. |
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The literacy even of aristocrats has sometimes been restricted to deeds and contracts. |
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Nor was it all a reprise of the Revolution of 1776 with Federalists in Tory roles as Anglophiles, aristocrats, or monocrats. |
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Edward's immediate successor was the Earl of Wessex, Harold Godwinson, the richest and most powerful of the English aristocrats. |
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The aristocrats, who stood to lose an enormous amount of money, were bitterly opposed to this proposal. |
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My family at times seem to think they are aristocrats, at other times I swear I can hear the muffled sound of dueling banjos. |
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Glasgow merchants made such fortunes that they adopted the style of aristocrats in their superior manner and in their lavish homes and churches. |
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Literate women ranged from cultured aristocrats to girls trained to be calligraphers and scribes. |
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In the 1750 to 1850 era, Whig aristocrats in England boasted of their special benevolence for the common people. |
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The ostensible purpose of the narrative is to cast the Priests as aristocrats and gentlepersons. |
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In this period drama based on real events, we learn how she faced bigotry from her fellow aristocrats in 18thcentury England. |
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The parliamentarians, politicians, aristocrats, and placemen moved to London. |
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It was especially attractive to powerful aristocrats and politicians as well as intellectuals, artists and political activists. |
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That is not to say that aristocrats were without social status. |
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The aristocrats of the play, both mortal and immortal, are promiscuous. |
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Edward's immediate successor was the Earl of Wessex, Harold Godwinson, the richest and most powerful of the English aristocrats and son of Godwin, Edward's earlier opponent. |
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From the Middle Ages, aristocrats were buried inside chapels, while monks and other people associated with the abbey were buried in the cloisters and other areas. |
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Wealthy merchants and aristocrats owned the Company's shares. |
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Berouged and beribboned aristocrats were assailed on these grounds as much as unreproductive ecclesiastics who spent their time consorting with females. |
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In the latter Jin and early Qing period, rulers encouraged the populace, including aristocrats, to practise buku as a feature of military training. |
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A lawyer, craftsman and peasant were all considered to be part of the same social unit, a third estate of people who were neither aristocrats nor church officials. |
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This is in direct contrast to the 1870s when a developing Barrow had more aristocrats per head of the population than anywhere else in the country. |
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Irish aristocrats waged many campaigns against the English presence. |
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The ruling class was an oligarchy of merchants and aristocrats. |
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Some aristocrats complained that, in the future, the government could compel them to pass any bill, simply by threatening to swamp the House of Lords with new peerages. |
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His ancestors intermarried with sinicized nomadic aristocrats. |
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The library's collections swelled to over 300,000 volumes during the radical phase of the French Revolution when the private libraries of aristocrats and clergy were seized. |
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He assumes that the aristocrats had to receive more attention in the narrative and to be more important, more distinguished, and better than the lower class. |
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The former was applied only to aristocrats, the latter only to commoners. |
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The Tractatus of Glanvill, from around 1187, appears to have considered it the chief mode of trial, at least among aristocrats entitled to bear arms. |
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