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In this production, the grave duke seems an ill match for the mercurial Lucio, and he must rouse all his ducal authority to muzzle the fool.
His charming ways and pleasing looks attracted me but once it was time for the duke to leave, he told me he was already married.
Having worked for the duke of Richmond, he later worked for the marquess of Rockingham and other members of the same circle.
But from 1385, the establishment of superior titles of duke, marquis, and viscount pushed barons into the lowest rank of the nobility.
The servants of a duke or marquis had seven rows of curls on their state wigs, six on their house wigs and five on their carriage wigs.
Well, technically he is a marquis until his father passes on and the title of duke will be officially his.
I am sorry for the silent treatment, but I was under the impression you were a duke that was coming to ask for my sister's hand in marriage.
She was given a marshallship of her duchies army because she made good tactical recommendations and talked to her duke regularly.
While I was at university, my bitterest regret was not having been born the son of a duke, or at the very least a baronet.
He enjoyed wars and was the first prime minister since the duke of Wellington to have fought in battle.
She preferred that her husband should be an earl, because an earl was belted, and a duke, we surmised, was not.
In 1692, the furniture maker supplied the duke fittings that included a mirrored door for the great chamber.
The duke nodded, eager to see his bride and young son after a month-long trip away from London.
Men duke it out with each other, bloodying each other up, until one taps out.
Being a duke or a count, or holding other royally conferred titles such as vir inluster or vir magnificus, were important privileges.
Originally the arms of Burgundy and the initials of the duke and duchess were painted beneath the lower cornice.
The duke walked over to the cradle and looked down to see his daughter sleeping peacefully.
The duke stood by the vehicle with his duchess beside him and took in the sight before him.
When Cosimo died in April 1574, Francis became the second grand duke of Tuscany.
In 1867, Luxembourg officially became an independent country, although King William III of the Netherlands remained its grand duke.
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Why, such men as that English duke whom the lecturer gripped and flagellated.
The most costly pictures in the room, are from the gallery of the grand duke of Tuscany.
On that side towards the sea, the king lodged with his field, and the duke of Clarence on the further side towards rone.
He presented to the grand inquisitor and the expectant duke two letters signed by the royal hand.
The reunion of Father Griffen, the duke and his wife, was as touching as that of the adventurer.
The duke of Excester vncle to the king led the rereward, which was mixed both with bilmen and archers.
So it happed there was a duke that hight Ansirus, and he was of the kin of Sir Launcelot.
It was telling the duke that he shirked danger as plain as ever I have heard a man told.
The votes of the members were only recommendatory, not conclusive, the final sentence being reserved by the duke to himself.
The craven duke would be begging for his life, and we want no more boras in Czernova.
The duke did not wish to rob the Seor de las Cuevas of the reparation due to him.
This naturally ended in the reappointment of the duke of York to his charge of protector.
As to what the duke would say to me, that is another matter, and may well be deferred.
He did so, but it was at the head of an army, intending to surprise the duke in Pilsen.
The duke was on the point of returning, and nobody would dream of impugning the truth of my story.
And the duke went away, promising to payoff the gentlemen for their interruption.
The voices of Gilda and Rigoletto were fusing with those of the figlia and the duke.
Gadzooks, neighbors, but I shouldn't be a whit surprised if that old party is a duke in disguise!
The duke of Northumberland was the first who experienced her savage resentment.
When the duke of summerset heard these newes, he without delaie reuolted from king Edward, and fled to king Henrie.
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