How To Use Grandee In A Sentence
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The grandees took refuge in their country houses—it was such a group whom Boccaccio imagined telling each other the tales in his “Decameron”—or hastened to promise propitiatory legacies to the church.
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The 44-year-old leader has reportedly been taking soundings from party grandees over his strategy for the election and the referendum on the European constitution, which is likely to follow soon afterwards.
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With a Royce you will be accepted, or at least tolerated, by the sniffiest grandee - and for considerably less than a duckpond, let alone a manor house.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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He starts with the famous debates that took place in Putney Church in 1647 between the Cromwellian grandees and the radical Levellers.
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He is a former defence secretary of the United States and a grandee of the Democratic Party.
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It was also responsible for one of the most unedifying episodes in modern politics, as Labour grandees sucked up to the label's founder, Alan McGee, in the hope that a little of Britpop's stardust would rub off.
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Elsewhere populism drew upon a peasantry tied to the land as part of the ownership by an aristocracy or local grandees of large estates, as in tsarist Russia and even today in South America and India.
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When combined with the conspicuous deployment of troops and liberal dispensation of patronage to the other princes and Court grandees it was enough to ensure victory.
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Only when such elites and grandees see that there are consequences to their cheap slurs and venom on campuses and American television will they ponder their present relationship with the United States.
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Perhaps he'll enjoy one day being of kafir status. .though of course being a 'grandee' he may expect special treatment and a little rule bending ..
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
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Moreover, he presented to him three hundred male white slaves and the like number of concubines, in loveliness like moons, and three hundred Abyssinian577 slave-girls, beside five hundred mules laden with treasure and sheep and oxen and buffaloes and bulls and other cattle beyond count; and he commanded all his Wazirs and Emirs and Grandees and Notables and
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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They had the bloom of health and happiness; and yet, as if I had been in charge of a pair of little grandees, of princes of the blood, for whom everything, to be right, would have to be enclosed and protected, the only form that, in my fancy, the afteryears could take for them was that of a romantic, a really royal extension of the garden and the park.
The Turn of the Screw
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For years I have heard the grandees of Oxford, Cambridge and London threaten a dash for freedom.
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Easy for grandees to slither away, mentally, from the realities.
Times, Sunday Times
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A singular variant of douzepers meaning illustrious nobles, knights, or grandees.
CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
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His regiment, rested after the defeat at Corunna and restored by almost four years of home duty, was billeted in a town near Palencia; he, wounded in some minor skirmish, in the home of a local grandee.
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He dismissed Stephenson as a self-serving mythmaker: a puerile grandee, whose assertions were little more than the “dangerous hallucinations” of an isolated old man heading toward second childhood.97 This judgment was perhaps too harsh.
Storyteller
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Its members will likely include chairmen of big companies and other business grandees.
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No sixteenth century Spanish grandee could speak in such terms and Schiller was well aware of the fact.
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Easy for grandees to slither away, mentally, from the realities.
Times, Sunday Times
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Sir Richard Sykes, the Huddersfield-born City grandee, is in a typically frank mood after his unceremonious ousting from Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation ENRC, just three years after the obscure Kazakh mining group hired him to confer credibility on the run-up to its London flotation.
Sir Richard Sykes: voted out, but not down
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In the unending stream of new law it seems that changes have been made to the rules, and that cross-bench sittings may not be okay unless authorised by the Lord Chief Justice or some other grandee.
Archive 2009-09-01
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He was the first Tory leader to be elected as party head, rather than emerge from a mysterious process of selection by the circle of aristocratic grandees.
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Leopardi grew up in the small town of Recanati, where his charming but stern father was the local grandee, a man who dressed in dandyish black every day and rued the day he had married his cold and religiose wife.
Giving new voice to Leopardi's songs of love and longing
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Led by Rahm Emanuel, a stalwart Clintonian factotum and grandee of the now obsolete DLC, the exodus from Clinton's campaign recalled the whoosh of gas escaping from a hot air balloon over the Grand Canyon.
Michael Carmichael: Obama's Pivot
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Five days on, this weekend, party grandees are already preparing for the fall-out from another defeat.
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The grandees, when they appear abroad, are carried in a kind of palanquin, which is borne on two negroes 'shoulders.
The Autobiography of Liuetenant-General Sir Harry Smith, Baronet of Aliwal on the Sutlej, G. C. B.
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Last month a selection of top grandees from the leisure industry were invited to a meeting with the shadow cabinet to discuss their concerns.
Times, Sunday Times
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He hoped to use the reform movement to advance his career but the step split the Whigs, aristocratic grandees like the duke of Portland and Earl Fitzwilliam being frightened by the prospect of the spread of the French Revolution.
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It comes after Tory grandees agreed a draft new constitution last night, including the plan to scrap the controversial leadership selection model introduced by a former party leader.
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Like other grandees, Carter married into another prominent Virginia family.
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Medina of the great caravan from Damascus, numbering 7,000 souls — grandees in gorgeous litters of green and gold, huge white Syrian dromedaries, richly caparisoned horses and mules, devout Hajis, sherbet sellers, water carriers, and a multitude of camels, sheep and goats. 122 Lastly Burton and his friends pilgrimaged to the holy Mount Ohod with its graves of
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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The atmospheric spot is decorated like a Spanish grandee's mansion.
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Is corruption condoned by powerful grandees in government and business?
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The Tory grandee has held this seat for 35 years; his majority stands at 7,000.
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Last month a selection of top grandees from the leisure industry were invited to a meeting with the shadow cabinet to discuss their concerns.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most of the current grandees of the British newspaper industry were there, and I didn't really know what was expected of me.
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His prices were too high for the Venetian grandees, who were as careful as himself with money, whilst the religious orders vexed him with quibbles and indecision.
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Often their best chance of talking to the grandees hobnobbing yards away is to call head offices back home.
Times, Sunday Times
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After accelerated training he arrived at a military hospital in India and, as the only resident doctor, he spent each week preparing for the bibulous round of a visiting Harley Street grandee.
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Resplendent as a political grandee, he was representative of a high point of aristocratic parliamentarianism before later developments undermined it.
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Millions of proud, educated Europeans are tired of being told by unelected grandees that the mess they see is really abstract art.
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Lansdowne was a Whig grandee and for decades Bowood in Wiltshire and Lansdowne House in London were headquarters of Whiggism.
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Unlike all the other men, he had no private books, no mezzotints of family grandees, no clutches of letters from admonitory father or teary mother or whispery girl back home.
Son of a Witch
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In the light of this law, _were any one mad enough to grope_, he might come to the conclusion that the first man (or race of men) was anything but a grandee in mind, person, or estate; and that our seemingly puzzled but at last most wonder-working mother, ycleped
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 2, August, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy
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He accompanied them, with all the grandees of the court, as far as to the Escurial, which is a famous royal palace not far from Madrid, built and furnished in the most sumptuous style of magnificence and splendor.
Charles I Makers of History
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The majolica could, perhaps, have been intended to grace a Spanish grandee's table in a conquered England.
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Last month a selection of top grandees from the leisure industry were invited to a meeting with the shadow cabinet to discuss their concerns.
Times, Sunday Times
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Prince was seventeen years old, the King sickened of a sore sickness and came nigh to die, so, being certified that his decease was at hand, he said to the people of his household, “This is disease of Death which is upon me; wherefore do ye summon my son and kith and kin and gather together the Grandees and Notables of my empire, so not one of them may remain except he be present.”
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Four years after his birth in Dunfermline, in 1600, it was thought a good idea to crown the boy King of Scots, but the Scots grandees objected.
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He was degraded from the grandeeship and exiled to the Philippines.
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Passed over for court painter to George III, Reynolds turned to the King's opponents, the Whig grandees and the group that surrounded the Prince of Wales.
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The Tory college could consist of MPs, grassroots grandees consisting of constituency chairs and council leaders, and finally members.
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He insisted two years ago that he would not follow Labour grandees in accepting a peerage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Do not miss the memorials to local grandees.
Times, Sunday Times
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The 44-year-old leader has reportedly been taking soundings from party grandees over his strategy for the election and the referendum on the European constitution, which is likely to follow soon afterwards.
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Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
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a grandee is a more harmless animal by far than an Irish Papist.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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He cultivated an image of Olympian detachment by scrupulously protecting the respective ranks and dignities of the grandees.
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Lord Mandelson wants to be seen as Labour 'grandee'
BBC News - Home
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He starts with the famous debates that took place in Putney Church in 1647 between the Cromwellian grandees and the radical Levellers.
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Do not miss the memorials to local grandees.
Times, Sunday Times
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With only 30 bedrooms, each stylishly decorated and furnished, this aristocratic hideaway is the perfect retreat for those who hanker after the Spanish grandee lifestyle.
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Probably neither name caused much stir from the leather armchairs in the New Club, where the city's grandees would once have counted the man in charge at North Bridge as one of their own.
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Although local concerns need to be fully taken into account, central government should not devolve responsibility to local authorities, nor to unaccountable transport grandees.
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The prime minister talked to a few of his grandees.
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She said, It hath reached me, O auspicious King, that when Kamar al-Zaman, son of King Shahriman, went to the Hammam, his father in his joy at this event freed the prisoners, and presented splendid dresses to his grandees and bestowed large alm-gifts upon the poor and bade decorate the city seven days.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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And corruption is condoned by powerful grandees in government and business.
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Roman society was acutely aware of its own paradoxes: the freedmen and slaves who served the emperors became figures of exceptional power and influence to whom even the grandees had to pay court.
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That is an amazing ratio and, if snot-nosed American media grandees don't think there's a story there, maybe they ought to consider another line of work.
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It did happen by accident that I had to go to the house of a man whom perhaps you would call a grandee, and to meet grandees there.
Phineas Finn
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The decision by the grandees who comprise the commission to launch such a campaign reveals nothing so much as their breathtaking contempt for the intelligence of the average non-voter.
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He has conducted the king's affairs in a manner so contrary to that of his predecessors that he is at this moment suspected by the clergy, hateful to the grandees of the state, hounded to the death by the heads of finance (_la haute finance_), dishonored amongst the magistracy.
A Popular History of France from the Earliest Times, Volume 6
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Millionaire and pauper, titled grandee and weeping immigrant, Ismay, the head of the White Star Company, and Jack Jones from the stoke hole were surrounded instantly.
Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters
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The galleass was the most splendid vessel of her kind afloat, Don Hugo one of the greatest of Spanish grandees.
English Seamen in the Sixteenth Century Lectures Delivered at Oxford Easter Terms 1893-4