| The idea of decorum had its strongest hold on the traditions of portraiture of nobles and worthies. |
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| We offered a few local worthies well known for their forthright opinions the chance to let off a bit of steam. |
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| He's dealing with estate agents, property developers and local worthies with an almost scary efficiency. |
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| The departure lounge at Kirkwall was packed with enough local worthies to fill a jumbo jet. |
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| Gary's soon rubbing shoulders with other local worthies, games sponsors, competitors and visitors. |
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| Indeed, Scott was among a number of literary worthies who celebrated the area in song and praised it in pen. |
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| At no stage did any of these worthies think it necessary to do some fact-checking before besmirching the reputation of a former cabinet officer. |
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| We tend to forget pop itself was once a term of abuse and these worthies were as close to the cutting edge as it was possible to get. |
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| Other worthies pilloried him for his strokeplay, dismissing the values of strength and quick eye in favour of grace and beauty. |
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| The box fills with civic worthies, ladies in floral hats, and the occasional chinless wonder who has wangled a sly invitation. |
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| Yet somehow the worthies who distribute our lottery money could not see that. |
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| Consigned by a disobliging fate to the era of Gladstone and Guizot, he has far less in common with those worthies than with Rafael Trujillo and with Papa Doc. |
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| Does it ever occur to the worthies of our beloved city council that they may owe the residents of York more consideration than they seem to afford us? |
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| These rights were guarded jealously, and one of the most predictable sights of a new reign was the procession of local worthies petitioning the king for their confirmation. |
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| The assembled civic worthies and their university visitors were confronted by the apparition of the mayor, clad in what appeared to be a rumpled pyjama shirt under his coat. |
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| Various worthies expressed anxiety last week at the high number of pupils failing maths, and at the drop in the number taking the subject at higher level. |
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| The worthies claimed that the jeeps had literally come apart during campaigning as they carried 20 to 25 campaigners over the worst possible terrain. |
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| I'm sure there will be a generous amount of worthies stepping forward to parse every sentence, on the eternal quest for the definitive admission that it's over. |
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| Now Scarborough Council is proposing to make the presenter a freeman, an honour awarded to only a handful of worthies, including playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn. |
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| An unaccountable committee of supposed worthies approves the construction of a ditch which underwhelms friends and fans alike. |
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| Bingley, made a contract with him to write biographies of Yorkshire and Lancashire worthies. |
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| As monumentalized, both worthies reinforced local elites' trust in the strength of the imperial defences of social formations based on violence and subjugation. |
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| In medieval Europe he was made a member of the Nine Worthies, a group of heroes who encapsulated all the ideal qualities of chivalry. |
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| The Worthies were first listed in Jacques de Longuyon's Voeux du Paon in 1312, and subsequently became a common subject in literature and art. |
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| Charlemagne was a model knight as one of the Nine Worthies who enjoyed an important legacy in European culture. |
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| Under Zhang's advice, Daoist temples were put under the Academy of Scholarly Worthies. |
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| What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile, but wise and faithfull labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies. |
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| Thomas Fuller, in Worthies of England, included a story where the Queen told her treasurer, William Cecil, to pay Spenser one hundred pounds for his poetry. |
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