“John Woodcock watched as final farewells were said to a respected member of the aristocracy.”

“By 1815 the Junker aristocracy was back in the saddle and concessions became even more restricted.”

“These terms were agreeable to the Magyar aristocracy, but could not satisfy the revolutionaries or moderates among the lesser nobility.”

“Part of the visible prestige of a great Roman aristocrat had long been the number of people dependent upon him.”

“For the first time in Bulgaria, archaeologists have excavated a grave of a Proto-Bulgarian aristocrat from the age of the khans.”

“She was raised to be an aristocrat from birth, and had lived in luxury aloof from the world at large.”

“The accusations of unsociability, of individualism, of aristocratism, were closely connected with this particular mood.”

“I told the aristo it had been nice knowing him, got the next train to London and went to the Candy Bar.”

“The Times thundered against the Scottish aristo and JP who sided with the rowdies.”

“With the King was his son Philip, a lad about the age of aristo, but not so tall nor so active.”

“Rather they reveal Tocqueville's fixation on the contrast between classes in aristocracies and democracies.”

“I cannot therefore present a broad set of types of peasantry as I did for aristocracies, for the problems of typicality are that much greater.”

“French indeed unified the aristocracies from the Capetian realm of France to southern Scotland.”

“What, cough syrup and Lysol-in-a-cup not good enough for you fancypants, la-di-da aristocrats?”

“But the Foreign Ministries of Europe were staffed by aristocrats motivated more by considerations of amour propre than common sense.”

“These aristocrats are wicked, all right, but they're not terribly decadent.”

“But just as the finishing line came into view, the Basque boys began to falter, and the arrogant aristos of Madrid brought their skills to bear.”

“I am sure that they are not the aloof, unfeeling, aristos that some would have us believe.”

“Why are the cream of Britain's aristos heading to Argentina in search of polo?”