marquis

How To Use marquis In A Sentence

• Marquis Conrade, thy wit begins to halt; I will trust thy finespun measures no longer, but will try my own. The Talisman
• Griselde, once again, accepted her fate and protested her love for the marquis, solely requesting her dignity upon exodus from the palace.
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• Faced with an abler opponent in Frederick Henry and undermined by Olivares, regent for the boy-king Philip IV, he returned to Spain in 1628 and was given a meaningless marquisate.
• It is true that mormaers are found inland, but an analogy may be made with Carolingian border officials ‘margrave’ and ‘marquis’ which became titles for members of the nobility far away from a frontier.
• Apparently, until quite recently, one could request the air from the Marquis of Blandford's private apartments.
• As diners savoured their delicious Chocolate marquise and sipped their coffee and tea, the ballroom's lights dimmed and the audience stilled as the evening's program began.
• We're all expected to be there, and all the nobles will be there - lords, ladies, counts, viscounts, dukes, duchesses, barons, baronesses, and marquises; all of them.
• According to Lafayette in his Mémoires, Clinton was so sure of his success in advance that he invited a number of ladies and gentlemen to a party in Philadelphia where the marquis was to be the featured guest. Angel in the Whirlwind
• The marquise, worried that Yvette has fallen asleep without extinguishing her candle, decides that someone must check on her.