Hhis father was probably an Italian nobleman, although he liked to hint he was the offspring of a high-ranking clergyman. |
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The story tells of peasant girl who falls in love with a nobleman, and the disastrous consequences of that love. |
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The nobleman goes on to host orgies, untouched by grief or remorse, until his horrible death. |
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He was standing in the middle of the room, dressed richly, like a duke or a nobleman. |
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He entered with the trained dignity of a nobleman and met the duke's steely gaze. |
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His father had inherited the Acton family baronetcy and his mother was the heiress of a German nobleman, the Duke of Dalberg. |
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My father was a nobleman in England, and my mother was a noblewoman born in France, but had moved to England when she was a little girl. |
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The nobleman motioned for Ryan to mount the buckskin, which he did with slight difficulty. |
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They call him a nobleman, but I knew that you, who see people so clearly with your penetrating eyes, would see him for what he was. |
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That was a problem because a duke is a nobleman of the highest hereditary rank and a member of the highest grade of the British peerage. |
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The Bedroom, the title of the first playlet, is the bedroom of a well to do nobleman and his wife. |
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A few weeks since, the young nobleman would have watched in admiration all that magnificent heraldry of the pomp of the storm. |
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It is another anachronism to think that the author of his plays must have been a nobleman. |
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In 1591 Bruno returned to Italy after being invited by the Venetian nobleman Zuane Mocenigo to educate the aristocrat in mnemonics. |
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Maggie takes up with and marries Prince Amerigo, an impecunious Italian nobleman with a wreck of a castle in his homeland. |
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The story goes that as a boy, he saw a local nobleman set his dog on a peasant woman who was knocked to the ground and battered. |
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To her surprise, the nobleman started to laugh and he continued to laugh for some time. |
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Both were riding horses, the villager on a fat grey pony and the nobleman on a lean sorrel. |
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The rest of his clothing was quite plain for a nobleman, as he hated his own title. |
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His vocabulary and manner of speech sounded as though it belonged to a British nobleman, but his voice was that of a typical New York male of his age. |
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It was during Daenerys' wedding and I was a Pentoshi nobleman in the background, wearing a gigantic hat. |
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A retiring disposition prevented him taking a prominent political role, but he is a good example of a late Victorian nobleman dedicated to university and municipal matters. |
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In a defensive capriccio of the period, the artist presents himself as a Venetian nobleman in a classical courtyard reminiscent of Sansovino's old library in Venice. |
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The new renaissance and baroque galleries at the Waiters Art Museum, Baltimore, include rooms that resemble those of a seventeenth-century Dutch nobleman. |
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Her chance came in this 15 th-century tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas about a madam at a brothel who agrees to help a nobleman seduce a young virgin. |
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The nobleman entreats the blacksmith to accompany him on a sacred mission. |
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An eighth-century Lombard nobleman in Tuscany even converted his house into a monastery and took his vows, apparently to avoid having to fight the Franks. |
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After a few years, he ended up in Moscow, where he was briefly employed as valet to a wealthy nobleman. |
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A more plausible explanation is that the map was surreptitiously acquired shortly after it was made for some nobleman or official client. |
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From all of which Isabel gathered that Lord Warburton was a nobleman of the newest pattern, a reformer, a radical, a contemner of ancient ways. |
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In Estonian, saks means a nobleman or, colloquially, a wealthy or powerful person. |
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Edward died in January 1066 without an obvious successor, and an English nobleman, Harold Godwinson, took the throne. |
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Early the next morning, Lennox, a Scottish nobleman, and Macduff, the loyal Thane of Fife, arrive. |
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From 1809 to 1811, Byron went on the Grand Tour, then customary for a young nobleman. |
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Before Shepperton Studios was built, there was Littleton Park, which was built in the 17th century by local nobleman Thomas Wood. |
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Emperor Tewodros II was born in Begemder from a nobleman of Qwara, where the Qwara dialect of Agaw language is spoken. |
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He was accompanied by Archibald Douglas, 4th Earl of Douglas, arguably the most powerful nobleman of Scotland. |
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Montfort was a younger son of Simon de Montfort, 5th Earl of Leicester, a French nobleman and crusader, and Alix de Montmorency. |
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Tudur Aled was himself a nobleman and one of the greatest of the Poets of the Nobility. |
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He married Filipa Moniz Perestrelo, daughter of the Porto Santo governor and Portuguese nobleman of Lombard origin Bartolomeu Perestrello. |
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The future emperor was named Romulus after his maternal grandfather, a nobleman from Poetovio in Noricum. |
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His father was King Theodemir, a Germanic Amali nobleman, and his mother was Ereleuva. |
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King Arioald consented that her innocence should be tested by a single combat between her accuser and a nobleman who undertook to defend her. |
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In the time of Louis XVI, every bishop in France was a nobleman, a situation that had not existed before the 18th century. |
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At that time an ambassador was a nobleman, the rank of the noble assigned varying with the prestige of the country he was delegated to. |
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Baida was a title of a Ruthenian nobleman and Cossack leader Dmytro Vyshnevetsky. |
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The state takes its name from Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, an English nobleman and Virginia's first colonial governor. |
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In 1803, Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours, a French nobleman, began to help negotiate with France at the request of Jefferson. |
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Martin was born the son of a Spanish nobleman and an African freedwoman in 1579 in Lima, Peru. |
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The Popol Vuh was written in the Latin script in early colonial times, and was probably transcribed from a hieroglyphic book by an unknown K'iche' Maya nobleman. |
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Tonight's possible whoppers, in sadly the last in a howlingly successful series, include the notion that a young David used to dress himself as an 18th Century nobleman. |
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New ships arrived from Portugal, which were intended for the nobleman Diogo Mendes de Vasconcelos at Malacca, who had been given a rival command of the region. |
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Callie found herself the slightest bit irate. Her father had been so eager for her to wed a nobleman, but here he was conscioning Zeus' s dalliance with a tavern-wench! |
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An archbishop or nobleman is likewise valued at 15,000 thrymsas. |
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My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you. |
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Historically, once nobility was granted, if a nobleman served the monarch well he might obtain the title of baron, and might later be elevated to the rank of count. |
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In the next year, Catualda, a young Marcomannic nobleman living in exile among the Gutones, returned, perhaps by a subversive Roman intervention, and defeated Maroboduus. |
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Problems began arising soon afterwards, initially a dispute with Gilbert de Clare concerning the allegiance of a Welsh nobleman holding lands in Glamorgan. |
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Marriage to a tradesmen's daughter by a nobleman was also common. |
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Stephen Thomas Knight has suggested that Munday drew heavily on Fulk Fitz Warin a historical 12th century outlawed nobleman and enemy of King John, in creating his Robin Hood. |
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The Battle of Bedwyn was fought in 675 between Escuin, a West Saxon nobleman who had seized the throne of Queen Saxburga, and King Wulfhere of Mercia. |
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When Victor is five years old, his parents adopt Elizabeth Lavenza, the orphaned daughter of an expropriated Italian nobleman, with whom Victor later falls in love. |
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