A French aristocrat by birth, Monseigneur has no trace of pity and despises the peasants of France. |
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The latter-day St. George yearns to rescue the daughter of an absent-minded aristocrat who lives in a castle but who fancies himself a gardener. |
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In 1972, he gave a dazzling, quicksilver performance as an English aristocrat who believes himself to be the Messiah in The Ruling Class. |
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For the first time in Bulgaria, archaeologists have excavated a grave of a Proto-Bulgarian aristocrat from the age of the khans. |
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She was raised to be an aristocrat from birth, and had lived in luxury aloof from the world at large. |
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Part of the visible prestige of a great Roman aristocrat had long been the number of people dependent upon him. |
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To be born an aristocrat does not in itself prevent me from taking on the project of liberty for the commoner or the day laborer. |
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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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She told him that she was the former wife of a Russian aristocrat, and she wrote on her marriage certificate that her father was dead. |
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Although an Italian aristocrat by birth, Piccolomini served the imperial cause faithfully throughout his military career. |
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He joined the army in 1808 but struggled for promotion because he was not an aristocrat. |
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Part aristocrat and part rough-hewn soldier, Jackson represented a new kind of politics and a new conception of the presidency. |
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Caroline became a baroness when she married a German aristocrat and military officer named Baron Von Roques. |
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Tall, mature, single, blue-blooded aristocrat seeks tall, mature foxy lady who loves dressing in furs. |
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Early in life, she identified herself through an illicit passion with an aristocrat who threw her over after she became pregnant. |
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One was an aristocrat educated at Harrow and Cambridge, the other a self-made man from small-town South India. |
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The Midrash relates that a Roman aristocrat asked Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai to explain the strange laws involving the Parah Adumah to him. |
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A man dressed like an aristocrat in silk lead a train of servants out of the jungle and down the beach. |
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The anchor is a dour and dandyish aristocrat in a bow tie who reads the official version of the news in a monotone. |
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Tall, mature, single, blue-blooded aristocrat, seeks tall, mature foxy lady who loves dressing in furs. |
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No aristocrat worth his title would ever have boasted about his wealth and possessions. |
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Alexander, a young Russian aristocrat, is taken out of school for being unteachable. |
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He is on the opposite end of the social spectrum, a wannabe aristocrat without the breeding to easily fit in. |
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Two are notable-a witty fop, who lives nearby, and a down-at-the-heels aristocrat, who has been sponging off the family for decades. |
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We camped amid the pews, an ex-con and a hugely pregnant aristocrat waddling backwards and forwards to the public loos with her sponge bag. |
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We didn't really take much notice of the fact that he was an aristocrat and a monarchist. |
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He was an intellectual aristocrat who was, as a teacher, caviar to the general. |
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Yet I am inclined to think that a death of a Royal or titled hereditary aristocrat is something different. |
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Lord Peter, that foppish, high-bred but utterly moral aristocrat, is in the background for much of this book. |
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Steve, like many of us, is not a blue-blooded aristocrat but an honest British citizen who loves hunting and enjoys the privilege of riding around the countryside. |
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He had four major relationships, a German baroness, a Spanish aristocrat, an American heiress and, of course, the gorgeous Norwegian model Eva Sannum. |
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I am not some high-born aristocrat that cannot get her own food. |
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She makes a striking entrance in riding boots, looking every inch the aristocrat, but her emotional range is altogether too slender for this beefy role. |
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In previous centuries, a Roman aristocrat who made a political misstep ended in obscurity or exile. |
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Will she settle down to a life of quiet obscurity and shooting parties and marry an aristocrat like the establishment hopes? |
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He was a lowly country lawyer and she a Kentucky aristocrat who had come to visit her older sister in Illinois. |
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Many a gentleman and aristocrat have sat in the centre of these four walls and have filled their minds with information from the books on the bookcases. |
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Osyth's father, like any responsible aristocrat, consults his barons and arranges a suitable marriage for his daughter in accordance with their advice. |
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But I cannot imagine these lines in Pollock's mouth, and not just because of all that separates the medieval aristocrat from the modern petit bourgeois. |
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The still boyish-looking aristocrat, 46, has been spotted at Arianna Huffington's Brentwood salons. |
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The food aristocrat regained her equilibrium when a pyramid of haricot vert salad appeared, laced with blue cheese, walnuts, and slivers of crisp radicchio. |
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I often feel like I'm an 18th century aristocrat arriving at Lord Monck's house for dinner, a dark-coated wag or bounder wearing the latest in britches and moleskin cape. |
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Roman Jakobson's good friend, that arch-structuralist aristocrat Nikolai Sergeevich Trubetzkoy, famously said that phonetics is to phonology as numismatics is to economics. |
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Where Kate is mild-mannered and middle-class, Cressy, 24, is a wild, blue-blooded aristocrat with bohemian heritage. |
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The Leopard By Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa The Leopard was the life work of a Sicilian aristocrat, Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. |
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The result is a rough, somewhat rumpled yet charming face, like a Renaissance aristocrat, unshaven and in stockinged feet, caught between the bedroom and the bath. |
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Fazio Novello della Gherardesca, an enlightened aristocrat, improved relations with Florence, the Pope and Genoa. |
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The Irish aristocrat looked all discombobulated and winded but Williams left Dublin in a sling and put himself out of the Six Nations. |
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Soon after meeting Vita, Woolf was intrigued by this leggy aristocrat who, she had heard, was a pronounced Sapphist and who wanted to seduce her. |
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Faux aristocrat Pippa has clearly been reading the bluffer's guide to looking like old money. |
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He was an extraordinary old aristocrat, who swore like a costermonger, and had the manners of a farmer. |
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Baylene is a brachiosaur from times gone by, an elegant aristocrat and the last of her kind. |
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Sometime in that year, a group of Cilicians captured a vessel carrying a young Roman aristocrat named Julius Caesar. |
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A rich senatorial aristocrat, Petronius Maximus, who had encouraged both murders, then seized the throne. |
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Once in Paris, Idriss meets the unlikely aristocrat Sigisbert de Beaufond, who regales him with a desert drama of Lawrentian proportions. |
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He may well have served as a tutor for an aristocrat on the Grand Tour, but the facts are not clear on this point. |
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In 1890, the young French aristocrat visited Much Wenlock and stayed with Dr Brookes at his lifelong home in Wilmore Street. |
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The Emperor appointed the chief justice, always a highborn aristocrat, several divisional chief judges, and some of the other puisne judges. |
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At times he portrayed himself as the descendant of a Scottish crofter, as a businessman, aristocrat, intellectual and soldier. |
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In 1948, Charles Aron, co-owner of aristocrat, divorced his wife, Evelyn. |
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There's adry,offbeat sense of humour under the hushed, plum my voice of a true pop aristocrat. |
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Sheen played a gay aristocrat in an ensemble cast which included James McAvoy, Emily Mortimer, David Tennant, Dan Aykroyd, Jim Broadbent and Peter O'Toole. |
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However, in 510 BC, at the instigation of the Athenian aristocrat Cleisthenes, the Spartan king Cleomenes I helped the Athenians overthrow the tyranny. |
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The movement coalesced under an aristocrat named Lucius Sergius Catilina. |
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He is not a savage but dresses and behaves like a European aristocrat. |
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There is also rich detail on Britain's role in inspiring the anglophile French aristocrat Baron Pierre de Coubertin, who created the modern Olympics. |
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The Maratha kingdom was founded and consolidated by Chatrapati Shivaji, a Maratha aristocrat of the Bhonsle clan who was determined to establish Hindavi Swarajya. |
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It is a counterhistory, a celebration of an explorer scarcely known in the United States, an Italian-born, French-educated aristocrat, Pietro Savorgnan di Brazza. |
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In the earliest Middle Ages it was the obligation of every aristocrat to respond to the call to battle with his own equipment, archers, and infantry. |
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The aristocrat and poet George Gordon Byron was Lord Byron of Rochdale. |
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Also by that time, he doubtless thinks, a white-handed aristocrat like Herbert will have tired of the affair and betaken himself back to the Towers where he belongs. |
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From 461 to 465 the pious Italian aristocrat Libius Severus reigned. |
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A white-handed, useless young aristocrat, by your account, married to a preacher's daughter, without capital, or useful knowledge, or any handicraft to live by. |
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Thomas Assheton Smith was an English aristocrat who forwarded the design of the steam yacht in conjunction with the Scottish marine engineer Robert Napier. |
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While the precise meaning of this term changed over time, including free retainers of an aristocrat and small landholders, it always referred to commoners. |
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This film is just 11 minutes long and stars Freddie Frinton as a doddery old butler and Mary Warden as Miss Sophie, an elderly English aristocrat. |
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His colleague, Marcus Calpurnius Bibulus, was an extreme aristocrat. |
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Buyers were allowed to inspect naked men and women for sale in private and there was no stigma attached to the purchase of males by a male aristocrat. |
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