marquess

How To Use marquess In A Sentence

• My grandfather -- the marquess who gave you Greystones, Grace -- made a marriage settlement on her. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
• Geoffrey watched as the clouds began to figuratively darken the marquess ' face.
• And therefore if a man have a lean and straight face, a Marquess Otton’s cut will make it broad and large; if it be platter-like, a long, slender beard will make it seem the narrower; if he be weasel-becked, then much hair left on the cheeks will make the owner look big like a bowdled hen, and as grim as a goose, if Cornelis of Chelmersford say true. Of Our Apparel and Attire. Chapter VII. [1577, Book III., Chapter 2; 1587, Book II., Chapter 7
• I may not remove overfar from you, I purpose to relate to you of a marquess, not an act of magnificence, but a monstrous folly, which, albeit good ensued to him thereof in the end, I counsel not any to imitate, for it was a thousand pities that weal betided him thereof. The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
• And Rupert as a marquess might prove to be a completely different kind of person: serious and backward-looking. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
• I think it's more likely that it commemorates the first marquess himself, rather than his son, as his name was also Arthur (as were all four of his predecessors as Earl of Donegall). Linkspam for 15-8-2009
• He's a botanist, interested in this sort of thing -- and he's read about the Marquess of Bute's trials. THE HARDIE INHERITANCE
• The Scottish aristocracy, made up of dukes, marquesses, earldoms and viscounts, still in this age of post-deference hold significant power and wealth.
• The marquessate and dukedom became extinct with the death of the 2nd Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria"
• He held five other peerages besides the title of the Duke of Devonshire - Marquess of Hartington, Earl of Devonshire, Earl of Burlington, Lord Cavendish of Hardwick and Lord Cavendish of Keighley.