A courtier quietly slid open the shoji to advise them of Masakazu's arrival. |
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The courtier had, in essence, brought his own demise the moment he drew his sword on his own brother. |
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The fierce easterly wind blowing out of the Straits of Gibraltar kept them waiting like a courtier at the king's gate. |
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Everyone turned to see who had spoken, and there in the corner stood an elderly courtier, one of the king's most trusted advisers. |
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The courtier sat in the corner cowering in fear as a hooded figure with an axe stepped closer. |
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The courtier did not seem to notice the sarcasm dripping from her voice, and responded with a warm, hearty laugh. |
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Knollys was a prominent courtier and parliamentarian during Elizabeth I's reign. |
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My master, who was the most prominent courtier to his most gracious Majesty, the Emperor Kao, may he live ten thousand years. |
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In front of the two male imperial figures a diminutive courtier or herald holds open the scroll, presumably reading aloud the announcement of the betrothal. |
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The words courtier and chivalry call up pictures in our minds of knights in armour, tournaments and jousting in behalf of the weak. |
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To the pompous old courtier Polonius, it appears that Hamlet is lovesick over Polonius's daughter Ophelia. |
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Thomas Lord Darcy, a courtier and companion of Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, built the house to fit his status as friend of the most powerful man after the King. |
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Her father was a diplomat and courtier, her mother a German-speaking Balt. |
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The courtier and the king stood nearby watching the princess. |
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He said this gallantly, with the practiced manners of a courtier. |
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He had little vocation to be a courtier and this caused him much unease and bitterness in those years. |
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Ever the courtier alert to the slightest imperfections in his outward mien, the Earl is accustomed to checking his physical appearance in the glass. |
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Depending on your investment in the palace, you may become the first player, do the procession, recruit any character, or get a courtier. |
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Even for the most forward-looking courtier, that might be a modernization too far. |
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But the essence of Disraeli's genius as a courtier was his ability to make it all about her. |
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Once a courtier regretted that Sultan has no male heirs. |
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He also worked as a courtier, a diplomat, and a civil servant, as well as working for the king from 1389 to 1391 as Clerk of the King's Works. |
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Chaucer was a courtier, leading some to believe that he was mainly a court poet who wrote exclusively for nobility. |
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A foppish courtier, Osric, interrupts the conversation to deliver the fencing challenge to Hamlet. |
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And of all the things that Disraeli was — mocker and opportunist, hired gun and flatterer, gadfly and courtier — the one thing that no one could ever call him was sanctimonious and hypocritical. |
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Archer, for his part, proved to be an assiduous courtier, never missing a public opportunity to praise Thatcher and to publicize his links to her. |
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More experienced, more self-confident and trusted enough – at last – by Labour cabinet colleagues, he was licensed to speak his mind freely as a big political beast, not as a Blair-Brown courtier. |
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Even the arch-monarchist Daily Mail wrote a story recently about the courtier employed to carry his favourite cushion around in the tone the paper ordinarily reserves for asylum-seekers. |
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They must want the broadcaster to be fully independent and must avoid the temptation to seek a tame courtier who smiles at my jokes, shouts at my enemies, overlooks my defects and exaggerates my achievements. |
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Then a courtier enquired if the emperor was not happy. |
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And lobbying was just the latest word for being a courtier. |
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As the story was told to me by colleagues in Salamanca, it was a merchant courtier who convinced Isabella to fund the voyage, arguing that she had little to lose. |
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The courtier put his more beautiful ornament. |
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Soon after the marriage, however, Queen Catherine had an affair with the courtier Thomas Culpeper. |
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For example, Robert Herrick was not a courtier, but his style marks him as a Cavalier poet. |
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The previous king had believed he was made of glass, a delusion no courtier had mistaken for a religious awakening. |
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The pliant historian and courtier could be counted on to provide refined touches to official correspondence. |
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Although Dryden's reputation is greater today, contemporaries saw the 1670s and 1680s as the age of courtier poets in general, and Edmund Waller was as praised as any. |
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An Incan courtier carrying a banner approached the building where the artillery was concealed, while Atahualpa, surprised at seeing no Spanish called out an enquiry. |
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For Sanchez, Amoret allegorizes the courtier who, rather than risk his own security and violate his self-interest, enables and collaborates with tyranny. |
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By the Lord, Horatio, this three years I have took note of it, the age is grown so picked that the toe of the peasant comes so near the heel of the courtier he galls his kibe. |
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The courtier was a jaunty fellow, attuned to the esoteric court gossip and attentive to the least beneficial wind of favor blowing from the throne. |
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In later times, some of these men came to be known as Akbar's 'nine gems' or navaratna. One of the most renowned of these navaratnas was a Hindu courtier named Birbal. |
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Other books were bowdlerized, including Boccaccio's Decameron and Castiglione's The Courtier. |
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Baldassare Castiglione's dialogue The Book of the Courtier describes the ideal of the perfect court gentleman and of spiritual beauty. |
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In this crabwise fashion, he finally brings in female jokers and victims in a section on Castiglione's Book of the Courtier. |
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