How To Use Ducal In A Sentence
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Accompanied by an ensemble, Musica Fiata, incorporating specialist period instruments such as chalumeau, arciliuto and violino in tromba marina, La Capella Ducale deliver the psalms with joy, some of the ornamentation is so detailed it sounds like laughter.
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But the title acquired by Dandolo runs thus in the chronicle of his namesake, the Doge Andrew Dandolo: "Ducali titulo addidit, 'Quartæ partis, & dimidiæ totius Imperii Romaniæ; Dominator.'
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2
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The acquisition of the ducal title by Robert Guiscard is a nice and obscure business.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration.
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The delicate palaces, -- already crumbling from age, -- the marvelous façade of the Ducal Palace with its lustrous color, the leaning _campanili_, the little churches filled with noble monuments to its great ones, -- all were helpless before an aerial attack, or shelling from warships.
The World Decision
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He wants grandchildren, legitimate ones, to carry on the illustrious ducal line.
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He was frail and spotted, with the drawn and thievish look of a figure in a ducal portrait.
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Also out of a ducal coronet, Or, a swan rousant Argent, ducally collared and chained of the 1st, holding in its beak Sable, an os - trich feather of the 2dj (which crest was granted to his Lordship, vol. 11. 2 1
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
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Il 6 ottobre al Cinema Adriano the Roma e al Ducale the Milano, alle ore 16, gli anziani dell'Auser, insieme ai loro nipoti e le famiglie di Ai.
Archive 2009-11-01
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When you've finished contemplating the studiolo, a secret door opens to reveal a balcony overlooking the ducal palace's hilltop command.
Sanctity in Perspective
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ducal palace
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Nicolovius's haughty aloofness, his rigid uncommunicativeness, his grand ducal bearing and the fact that he paid eighteen dollars a week for a suite had of course made him a man of mark and mystery in the boarding-house, and in the romancings of Miss Miller he had figured as nearly everything from a fugitive crown prince to a retired counterfeiter.
Queed
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Norman ducal revenues were insufficient to meet even the cost of garrisoning its defences and so, to fund Richard's seemingly never-ending wars against Philip, England was subjected to unprecedented levels of financial exaction.
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Il 6 ottobre al Cinema Adriano the Roma e al Ducale the Milano, alle ore 16.00, gli anziani dellAuser, insieme ai loro nipoti e le famiglie di Ai.
Disney sull'adozione spirituale. Virna Lisi e i suoi nipoti all ...
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As they turned toward the ducal apartments, he slid his arm about Honoria and drew her against him.
DEVIL'S BRIDE
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Note 144: The catena aurea appears in Plato's Theatetus (153d), translated by Ficino and included in the ducal library as part of the Commentary of Plato's Convivium ... de amore (I.V. #221).
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro
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The cap badge worn at the turn-of-the-century was a white metal normal light infantry stringed bugle-horn surmounted by a ducal coronet.
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This was especially evident in the Lombard period, from which some twenty judgements have survived that throw light on the judicial activity of royal or ducal officers who came directly from the palace.
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Considered over a lifetime, written by a dying old man in the remnants of his ducal palace in Palermo, it is a threnody to a fallen patrician class.
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In his poor lodging, 3 Rivers Street, Bath, and his reception and treatment of me there, I found something which I could call 'ducal' or higher than if he had been a duke, and still palatial.
Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle
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The shield has on the top the archducal hat of Austria.
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Angelo's house, with his pictures, clothes, and painting implements, just as he left it three centuries ago; on the south side of the Arno is the house of Galileo, and that of Machiavelli stands in an avenue near the Ducal Palace.
Views a-foot
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But scattered through its half-deserted rooms, state bed-chambers and the like, hung the works of more genuine masters, still as unadulterate as the hock, known to be two generations old, in the grand-ducal cellar.
Imaginary Portraits
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This reading of the exhibition undoubtedly shows the internal coherence of the archducal art collection and its function in the Court in a surprising, almost interactive fashion.
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Loyet's materials - gold, silver, gems, and pearls - ensured that every commission for the ducal household, however trivial, was recorded in the expense books.
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In Oscar Wilde's play Lady Windermere's Fan a venal London duchess is hoping to marry her daughter to a rich young man from Sydney, whose father cans food that even the servants in the ducal house refuse to eat.
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Pincus's volume deals with the earliest examples of any of the four books, ducal tombs produced in Venice from the mid-duecento to the later quattrocento.
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Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration.
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The blazon of the 1985 grant of new arms read, ‘Azure, a stag trippant argent attired and unguled, gorged with a ducal coronet and chained between the legs or’.
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If Alain Ducasse's tranquil, elegant country hotel, a former ducal summer palace from the 16th century, feels more "south of France" than "Maremma," you don't much care: It is exceedingly comfortable in its own crisp, modern fashion.
The Other Tuscany
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_Item_ -- They shall tell him about a meeting between the imperial and ducal ambassadors, at which meeting there was some talk of making a kingdom out of certain lands of Monseigneur and joining these to an _imperial_ vicariate of all the lands and principalities lying along the Rhine.
Charles the Bold Last Duke of Burgundy, 1433-1477
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Meanwhile, Giovanni Antonio Canal, famed as Canaletto, will feature at the Dickinson gallery in Jermyn Street with a pair of masterful Venetian views of the Piazza San Marco and its ducal palace from circa 1755 price for the pair: €4.5 million.
A Week of Masters Descends
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Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration.
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Mr. Gross has adopted as a factory mark his family crest, a falcon rising ducally gorged, which is printed on each piece in black.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 1082, September 26, 1896
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Crest, on a mount vert, a wyvern ppr. ducally gorged, and lined or.
Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
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Later royal or ducal builders mainly added size.
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Dudley also proved more willing to appoint ducal servants to offices in his gift and to employ them in his own administration.
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After the capture of Harfleur, he defended it against French attacks and was rewarded by promotion in 1416 to ducal rank.
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Il 6 ottobre al Cinema Adriano the Roma e al Ducale the Milano, alle ore 16, gli anziani dell'Auser, insieme ai loro nipoti e le famiglie di Ai.
Virna Lisi Lesbian Scene | The Unreality Show
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Among the notable constructions of the principality are the ancient fortifications, the old ducal palace which contains beautiful frescoes by Annibale Carracci, Orazio Ferrari, and Carlone, the cathedral, built (1884-87) in the Byzantine style, by Prince Albert
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman
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On a chapeau Gules, turned up Ermine, a lion statant guardant Or, ducally crowned Azure, gorged with a collar coun - ter compone.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical
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Posing as an injured painter of noble birth, Castagno infiltrates the ducal palace and courts Marguerite, who secretly shelters him in her chambers and restores him to health.
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Opening this, they entered a room which Casanova immediately identified as the ducal chancellery.
The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
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The archducal court, however, failed to follow imperial orders.
The Uskok �Problem� and Habsburg, Venetian, and Ottoman Relations at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
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On June 28, 1914, after days of rumors about possible assassination attempts, the archducal car was attacked by means of a bomb thrown from the large surrounding crowds.
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Oh, I'm sure it's nothing like that fancy ducal estate you have, but we'll make do.
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Gianfrancesco Gonzaga invited classical scholar Vittorino da Feltre to set up a boys' school in the city inspired by humanist principles, where ducal scions mixed with talented plebs.
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The work was commissioned for the ducal theater in Milan, to open the 1772-73 season.
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This would be the signal for the withdrawal of the archducal protection from the pirates, who then, exposed to the vengeance of all whom they had plundered, must inevitably succumb in the unequal conflict that would ensue.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844
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The owner of Skipton business Pottery and Pine was previously one of Ducal's main stockists and a past Ducal Retailer of the Year.
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He reached Rouen, the ducal capital, in May.
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These ducal states originated in the supreme command of large bodies of troops, and then in the administration of large territories by dukes.
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A Duke is a "dux" or "leader;" the flying wedge of cranes is under a "ducal monarch" -- a very different personage from a queen bee.
The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
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The picture in the background shows the Austrian archducal coronet, which was made for Joseph II's entry into Frankfurt for his coronation as king in 1764.
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In a ducal coronet, or, a Saracen's head affrontee, proper, wreathed about the temples, ar. and sable.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
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He knew by her ducal diadem, by the baudekin colours of her robe, by her unmistakable air of pride, his daughter Isabel.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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Nevertheless, the visual evidence and written documentation suggest ducal involvement.
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Il 6 ottobre al Cinema Adriano the Roma e al Ducale the Milano, alle ore 16.00, gli anziani dellAuser, insieme ai loro nipoti e le famiglie di Ai.
Disney sull'adozione spirituale. Virna Lisi e i suoi nipoti all ...
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The same criticism can be made of ducal palaces like Chatsworth, Stowe, Woburn, Blenheim, sequestered in their parks.
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Shang that he received extraordinary rank; just as, in very much later days, the Confucius family was the only non-Manchu to possess "ducal" rank, or, as the Japanese seem to hold in German style, "princely" rank.
Ancient China Simplified
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Norman ducal revenues were insufficient to meet even the cost of garrisoning its defences and so, to fund Richard's seemingly never-ending wars against Philip, England was subjected to unprecedented levels of financial exaction.
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On a wreath, the bust of a man couped and affronte, proper, ducally crowned, or.
Peerage of England, genealogical, biographical, and historical
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He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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But scattered through its half-deserted rooms, state bed - chambers and the like, hung the works of more genuine masters, still as unadulterate as the hock, known to be two generations old, in the grand-ducal cellar.
Imaginary Portraits
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RICHARD II. to THOMAS MOWBRAY, Earl Marshal, and now borne by the Duke of NORFOLK, is _a lion statant guardant, his tail extended or, and ducally gorged arg. _: the PERCY lion is _statant, his tail extended or_: each lion stands upon a chapeau.
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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Marquis Montagu may have used, he certainly did use the Gryphon, issuant out of a ducal coronet, as this appears alone for his crest, on his garter plate, as a crest for Montagu, he having given the arms of that family precedence over his paternal coat of Nevile; the king - maker, likewise, upon his seal, gives the precedence to Montagu and
The Last of the Barons — Volume 12
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These various cries of the assailants, contradicting each other, showed their irresolution; while Richard, his foot still on the archducal banner, glared round him with an eye that seemed to seek an enemy, and from which the angry nobles shrunk appalled, as from the threatened grasp of a lion.
The Talisman
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It was for the solemn task of protecting and sanctifying the ducal resting place that Philip chose the most austere of the religious orders.
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My mother, who was as haughty as Lucifer with her descent from the Stuarts, and her right line from the _old Gordons, not the Seyton Gordons_, as she disdainfully termed the ducal branch, told me the story, always reminding me how superior _her_ Gordons were to the southern
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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There were unpleasant scenes in the baroque antechambers of Vienna; archducal potentates lost their tempers; and Maximilian, after a hot exchange with Archduke Rainer, the President of the Council ofMinisters, quitted the city in disgust.
FORGE OF EMPIRES 1861-1871
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The limitations of the hegemonic strategy employed by Stuttgart were revealed beginning in 1796 when several Black Forest cantons agitated for reform to the ducal political system.
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In Florence, Michelangelo Buonarroti's ducal tombs in the Medici church of San Lorenzo particularly impressed him.
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Considered over a lifetime, written by a dying old man in the remnants of his ducal palace in Palermo, it is a threnody to a fallen patrician class.
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He called the ducal palace that evening and got through to the chief social secretary.
Agent Of The Terran Empire
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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.
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He wrote heartfelt petrarchan sonnets extolling his employers, and in 1551 wrote awestruck from the reconquered Pisa, while painting the ducal children: "I am continually with these most saintly sovereigns, and I rejoice in the blessed sweetness of so good and benign a prince.
Bronzino's Medici portraits – review
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Borne as the crest of HAMILTON, Duke of HAMILTON, which is thus blazoned -- _Out of a ducal crest-coronet or, an oak-tree fructed and penetrated transversely in the main stem by a frame-saw ppr., the frame gold; above the crest the motto_, “THROUGH!”
The Handbook to English Heraldry
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Ducal nel luogo ditto Brucio in confin di S. Moise, et fece riedificar la isola di Eraclia.
Stones of Venice [introductions]
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The viceroy's house, now the governor's, is a titanic white imitation of an English-county ducal palace.
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The asking of it diminished somewhat from that ducal, grand-ducal, quasi-archducal, almost Godlike superiority which he had assumed, and showed the curiosity of a mere man.
The Duke's Children
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Usually there is also a crown or so called ‘archducal hat’ over the arms of Styria.
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For the first time Churchill, by now on the brink of old age, shed the ‘galloping major’ image and became, oddly for someone of ducal provenance in what was quickly turning into the Age of the Common Man, a folk hero.
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Perhaps the perplexity, if any, arose from Anne Duchess of Hamilton, the inheritress of the ducal honours by virtue of the patent of 1643, after the deaths of her father and uncle _s.p. m. _, having obtained a _life dukedom_ for her husband,
Notes and Queries, Number 179, April 2, 1853. A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc
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Gordons_, -- _not_ the _Seyton Gordons_, as she disdainfully termed the ducal branch, -- told me the story, always reminding me how superior _her_
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 2 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
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As a prince he patronized artists to furnish him with objects for his studiolo in the Palazzo Vecchio, and later he was responsible for organizing the display of the ducal collections he had inherited in the galleries of the Uffizi.
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Accordingly, he commanded his ducal register to be brought him, a huge book, secured with brass clasps like a merchant's ledger, and whose leaves, stained with wine, and slabbered with tobacco juice, bore the names probably of as many rogues as are to be found in the Calendar of Newgate.
The Fortunes of Nigel
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Echoes of these symbolic assertions of ducal autonomy were also to be heard at later periods.
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The archducal court did not wish to enforce the agreement because they used the Uskoks as a defense system for their Croatian territories and for the purpose of curbing Venetian demands on land and sea.
The Uskok �Problem� and Habsburg, Venetian, and Ottoman Relations at the Turn of the Seventeenth Century
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Antoine Busnois was one of the most prominent composers in the Burgundian ducal court in the second half of the 15th century.
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Northumberland, distinguished his own retainers, however, by the special request of the ancient Montagus. -- a Gryphon issuant from a ducal crown.
The Last of the Barons — Complete
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Sir Guy Ferre the Younger served in Gascony in all of these capacities, as both comital administrator and advocate for the maintenance of ducal authority.
The Maintenance of Ducal Authority in Gascony: The Career of Sir Guy Ferre the Younger 1298-1320
