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.
The notary of Saint Elix deserves a canonry in the Chapter of Charenton; it is not the Marquis de Montespan who is dead; they have played a trick on you. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
At 45, the Marquis has already earned the reputation of a cool-headed, unsentimental type.
For one thing, less politically motivated assessments of the marquise describe her as a beautiful woman up until the time of her death at the ‘great’ age of forty-three.
Boucher's next portrait of the marquise was painted in 1759, well after she had ceased to share the King's bed.
According to legends, traitors were hanged at this location during the American Revolutionary War and that the Marquis de Lafayette witnessed the festive hanging of 20 highwaymen from the elm in 1824.
Kleist's twenty-sentence novella would therefore be an allegory of events, a tale in which no occurrence — the slip of the beggarwoman, the death of the Marquis — can be understood by situating it within a deterministic logic that would purport to explain what it means by referring it to something else. Reading, Begging, Paul de Man
Except that it has only eight lines, the triolet is also difficult to describe but a nice example of one is aptly titled "Triolet" and written by the American newspaperman and humorist Don Marquis (1878 — 1937), and is taken from his book Dreams & Dust (1915). “I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.”
Famous for giving his name to the perversion known as sadism, the Marquis de Sade was initially a doctor, who originated the phrase, "Does it hurt when I do this? Mark C. Miller: First Jobs of History's Greatest
She didn't see why she could just call herself a female Marquis and have done with it!
She said the marquise had a kind heart, and fell in love with a common man.
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
The marquise found Desgrais at the appointed spot: he gave her his arm then holding her hand in his own, he gave a sign, the archers appeared, the lover threw off his mask, Desgrais was confessed, and the marquise was his prisoner. Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
This world pays consideration to, he-man marquis, go not to change the appoint, sit don't change a surname.
A highlight of this performance was the contribution of the Marquis brand to the improvement in Waterford Crystal's operational profitability.
A marquis was a rank something like Orminy," said Sade. Asimov's Science Fiction
Marquis Dillard (d.o.b. 7-15-89) wanted for robbery with a firearm that occurred during a drug deal. ABC7 News
The marquis gave his friend a disparaging look and left the lodgings without another word.
Wits, authors, poets, artists, statesmen, whose words could change the fate of Europe, were proud to call the marquise friend. Marie Gourdon A Romance of the Lower St. Lawrence
A highlight of this performance was the contribution of the Marquis brand to the improvement in Waterford Crystal's operational profitability.
The 1.0-carat stone was fashioned into a marquise and shows several tiny unidentified mineral inclusions only visible under the microscope.
Having ordered all affaires at their lodging, Marquiso saide; It is fit for us to see this Saint, but I know not how we shall attaine thereto, because The Decameron
An is the nobility marquis to inherit a person, laying claim to kindness to fellowmen.
Days he lived in concealment, and after the second Restoration obtained the title marquis, and in 1819 introduced a motion in the chamber of peers tending to render the electoral law more aristocratic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"
[The latter] was enfeoffed as Marquis of Ch'ang-p'ing. The History of the Former Han Dynasty
The simple yet sophisticated lines of marquise diamond engagement rings make them one of the most popular choices for bridal sets as well as other accented rings and solitaires.
'Twas surely a prodigious fault on the part of the Marquis of Montcalm, to accept a battle from Wolfe on equal terms, for the British General had no artillery, and when we had made our famous scalade of the heights, and were on the Plains of Abraham, we were a little nearer the city, certainly, but as far off as ever from being within it. The Virginians
In one case, Mr. White couldn't attract new lenders early this year to replace a $65 million preconstruction loan provided by CIT Group Inc. on the Marquis at Williamsburg, a shopping center under construction in Virginia. Real-Estate Slump Thrusts Lenders Into Unfamiliar Roles
The confinement made him fretful and exacting, and the old Marquise ascribed the change in his behaviour to the deplorable influence of his tutor, a "laic" recommended by one of Raymond's old professors. The Custom of the Country
Lordship's death, in the Spanish campaign, in the year 1811, his estate fell in to the family of the Tiptoffs, and his title merged in their superior rank; but it does not appear that the Marquis of Barry Lyndon
Hamilton and I've got to say the long passages where they sit around talking about sex ends up edging closer and closer to the long philosophical passages in the Marquis de Sade, where everyone's just sitting around naked talking and sipping hot chocolate with cantharides in it in preparation for the next bout of sexual excess. Cat Rambo
The turn and fall and turn again of the breeze-lifted marquisette at the window, in and out of a sunbeam. More Than Human
The only animation in the marquise's rotund and double-chinned face, as she loosens her lips into a perfunctory smile, is to be found in her alert eyes as she looks up from her embroidery.
Well the interesting thing about the Marquis de Sade of course, is that his world is littered with Cardinals and Priests and Abbes, so it's not completely unreligious.
Italy there were so many forms of government, dukedoms, baronies, marquisates, signories, city republics, each with its own custom regulations, not to speak of each having its own coinage and language, that travelers encountered obstacles almost at every step. Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920
[Pageheading: LORD DALHOUSIE] [Pageheading: INDIA AND THE DUKE] _The Marquis of Dalhousie to Queen Victoria. The Letters of Queen Victoria, Vol 2 (of 3), 1844-1853 A Selection from her Majesty's correspondence between the years 1837 and 1861
The loss of her mother affected Marion's ability to sleep for more than one or two hours at a time, making her an ideal ‘busy girl’ for the marquise, who demands a servant's presence to guard her through the night.
`We alerted all the other case officers," the marquis went on, `and eight of them have now reported similar changes in pattern. LOHENGRIN
Cardinal Sigismondo Gonzaga, a very beautiful kneeling figure, robed in the habit of a Cardinal, with the rochet, which is also a portrait from life; and in front of that Cardinal is a portrait of Signora Leonora, the daughter of the same Marquis, who was then a girl, and afterwards became Duchess of Urbino. Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol. 06 (of 10) Fra Giocondo to Niccolo Soggi
Though the marquise was a handsome and clever woman, her rivals took delight in comparing her with her sister-inlaw, with all the more point because the countess was a dozen years younger. A Daughter of Eve
After a heated argument, the Marquise and her daughter abandon the castle, leaving her husband's guard with a pleasant memory.
The Venetian republic forbade its citizen nobles (those who sat in the Consiglio Maggiore) from assuming titles such as prince, duke, marquis, or count.
Even Michigan star receiver Marquise Walker has returned punts and blocked a punt this season.
In comes a white chocolate marquise and a French brioche toast with strawberries and ice cream.
Next came the marquis of Winchester, Lord Treasurer, bearing the orb as he had done for Mary.
Serizy, who became through his wife the brother-inlaw of the ci-devant Marquis de Rouvre, made count and chamberlain by the A Start in Life
The marquis made madame and Julia all the reparation in his power, by offering immediately to reconduct them to the main road, and to guard them to some place of safety for the night. A Sicilian Romance
I should not have dwelt so long upon this particular, it had not been a point wherein the reputation of a great lady is so nearly concerned, to say nothing of my own; though I then had the honor to be a Nardac, which the Treasurer himself is not; for all the world knows he is only a Glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a Marquis is to a Duke in England, although I allow he preceded me in right of his post. Gulliver's Travels
‘We have already agreed that this is the badge of a marquis or of a marquise,’ said he.
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Soft silks and satins and penne and chiffon velvets were principally used for the afternoon tea gown, but chiffon, chiffon clothes, marquisette and lace were to be seen. The Tea Gown | Edwardian Promenade
Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Louise was a trendsetter when she married the Marquis of Lorne, heir to the dukedom of Argyll, in 1871.
It must be said, however, that the Fogg portrait is not absolutely coherent as a mirror image because the cameo bracelet the marquise wears is not shown reversed.
So while Boucher's portrait of the marquise at her toilette is to be the focal point of this essay, also of great importance are the cultural debates encompassing it.
Corey had a waterproof watch, and we knew Marquis's wife would call the coastguard if the boat wasn't back by a certain time. The only ones: Escaping near death
The chateau was inherited by Marigny from his father in 1754 and in the same year its seigneurie was elevated into a marquisate, giving Marigny the title by which he is generally known.
Adrian Beltre hit a three-run homer, his 45th home run of the season, in the third inning off Jason Marquis for a 5-4 Dodger lead.
We need a few more swaggerers like Andrew Carnegie, the Marquis of Bute, or Sir Charles Tennant, all Scots who built great industrial empires and made certain that the world knew all about it.
Queen Victoria's daughter Princess Louise was a trendsetter when she married the Marquis of Lorne, heir to the dukedom of Argyll, in 1871.
Of course I assisted him as well as I could under the circumstances, but as he limped along towards the companion-hatchway, the leader of the desperadoes, that villainous "marquis," who I thought had met with his just deserts long since, not having seen him for some little time among the other fighters, most unexpectedly jumped from the rigging in front of the colonel and aimed a vindictive blow at him with a marline-spike. The Ghost Ship A Mystery of the Sea
I honestly thought he would have forgotten the Marquis of Granby incident.
A five stone diamond, 18 carat gold eternity ring; an 18 carat gold marquise oval cluster ring; and an 18 carat gold single diamond twist ring were taken.
The Unruochings and the Widonians also acquired the duchies and marquisates of Friuli and Spoleto respectively, while the counts or marquises of Tuscany were descendants of a Boniface who lived in the 820s.
In 1756 the question of Pompadour's use of rouge was a pressing one because it was directly related to the marquise's standing in the court, as was the ceremonial performance of her toilette.
The servants of a duke or marquis had seven rows of curls on their state wigs, six on their house wigs and five on their carriage wigs.
Jason Marquis, 31, who won 15 games for the Colorado Rockies last season, will join lefty John Lannan at the top of the rotation. Nationals hope new faces lead way out of last place in NL East
In 1516 he dedicated to the marquis of Monferrato his short Dialogus de homine and a more important treatise, De triplici ratione cognoscendi Deum. Loss of Faith
Here's an article on marquisette and grenadine that might interest you. I remember my grandmother having the dotted marquisette curtains.
She had been sold when he first beheld her, and should, he muttered austerely, have been ticketed the property of a middle-aged man, a worn-out French marquis, whom she had agreed to marry, unwooed, without love -- the creature of a transaction. Beauchamp's Career — Complete
The novels of the Marquis de Sade deal with sexual perversion.
He is a biographee in Marquis, "Who's Who in America" and in "Who's Who in the World". Questions and Truth : Coin Collecting News
She mumbled briefly, acting the part of a very immature child of eight years, no more and no less; her mother ignored this and prompted Christine to return to a more important topic of conversation: the marquis.
When the Marquis told her he would take her to Ragland Castle (his seat in Monmouthshire), where she would find a priest, and might hear Mass every day, she was so transported with joy, that she died before the next morning. 10/01/2002 - 11/01/2002
Now, if the marquisate is dangled out of his reach, he will have no thoughts to spare from himself. Letters of Two Brides
Carnaby is rowelling savagely, yet, neck and neck, the sorrel and the gray race for the jump, with Barnabas and the Marquis behind. The Amateur Gentleman
He instructed the marquise in drawing and sometimes retouched her engravings.
But while England had nobles, it did not have a nobility; legally, the son of a duke or marquis could be only a commoner.
In a few moments the clanging of the bell ceased, for the marquis had discovered the old sextoness in her cell, and compelled her to desist. Wagner, the Wehr-Wolf
THE WARMTH OF THE MARQUIS’s greeting bolstered Kate’s flagging spirits, and the kindness in his expression dispelled any lingering discomfort occasioned by MacNeill’s sardonic manner. My Seduction
The arms of Duncan Campbell, as preserved in the hands of his descendants, are identical in their quarterings with the Marquis of Breadalbane, as follows: Quarterly, first and fourth, gyronny of eight or. and sa. for Campbell; second or. a fesse chequey ar. and az. for Stewart; third, ar. a lymphad, her sails and oars in action, all sa. for Lorne. Virginia and Virginians
It was the word calumny that offended him most, that, and the idea that he, the Marquis of Trowbridge, should be called upon to promise not to commit an offence! The Vicar of Bullhampton
For Chambers, the counts, barons, knights, earls and marquises of this island are not only set apart, but are also misunderstood and misrepresented; they remain a shadowy bunch, unknown to the greater part of the population.
He also enraged the Marquise by referring to her as Petticoat III (Petticoats I and II being Maria-Theresa and the Empress Elizabeth of Russia) and by calling the wolfhound who slept in his bed his Pompadour.
In 1814, he was named one of the four plenipotentiaries to the congress of Vienna and was created Marquis of Heusden by the king of Holland in 1818.
As a last resort he called the marquis to him, and, while a tear stood on his rough cheek, drew a handful of money from his pocket. Not Pretty, but Precious
The spouse of the marquis of Chin Hsiang comes next, with no more than twenty catties a day. Hung Lou Meng
We ate a terrine de lapin, côte de porc grillé, and a marquise de chocolat in a thin crême anglaise. BLOOD IS DIRT
He had antedated Sullivan, in the old London Prize Ring Rules, though his last fading battles had been put up under the incoming Marquis of Queensbury Rules. Chapter I
[Commandery], Sun Ch'ung, were all enfeoffed as full marquises because they had informed on the The History of the Former Han Dynasty
Even the Marquis himself does not know whether his son was legitimate or not; or whether his wife is a bigamist.
His marquisate lay in the Piedmont, straddling the banks of the Tanaro River between Turin on the west and Tortona on the east.
One question in a recent local quiz evening was: ‘Which is the higher ranking, an earl or a marquis?’
I had a thin slice of chocolate marquise and a slice of chocolate and mocha cake.
She then became the official mistress of Louis XV and marquise before ending up as lady-in-waiting to the queen, de facto minister, and pious, platonic consort of the king.
Then he sent Brother Fuliginous and Brother Tenebrae (who had been pushing the marquis's wheelchair) out of the room. NEVERWHERE
The Marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood.
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Deferring to modesty, she wore a sheer mauve marquisette bolero edged with the same pink taffeta as the top. Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth
Italy having come into the hands of the French, a change of form and order took place, the popes acquiring greater temporal power, and the new authorities adopting the titles of count and marquis, as that of duke had been introduced by Longinus, exarch of Ravenna. The History of Florence
Presently he saw a gentleman, wrapped up in a roquelaure, alight and enter the inn, and in the next moment he heard the voice of the Marquis. The Romance of the Forest
I have met a certain French marquis, who is attached to the Count de Moustier's embassy. The Maid of Maiden Lane
On every New Year's day I have always sent a present of coffee and perique to my cousin the Marquis, and it is Mademoiselle who writes to thank us. The Crossing
The widow of a marquis, whom you should by rights call a marchioness dowager (but we overlook it -- you meant no harm) is entitled (in any hotel that we know or frequent) to go in to dinner whenever, and as often, as she likes. Frenzied Fiction
Common cuts are the baguette, which is long and thin like the French bread; brilliant, a fat cone shape that optimizes reflected light; and the boat-shaped marquise cut. Time for Something Special
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No one ever had a better fix on the Marquis de Sade than Simone de Beauvoir, who called his erotic life "a combination of passionate sexual appetites with a basic emotional 'apartness'. A Divided Nature
It must be said, however, that the Fogg portrait is not absolutely coherent as a mirror image because the cameo bracelet the marquise wears is not shown reversed.
The "little marquise" is said to have died in child-bed at the Hague, in 1661. Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
-- There is certainly a strong likeness between the Marquis and Lord Darcey; -- _so strong_, that when I first beheld his Lordship I was quite struck with surprize. Barford Abbey
The eponyms are the French Marquis de Sade and the Austrian Leopold von Sacher-Masoch.
Though counts may cavil and marquises moan, the Spanish parliament, backed by the Spanish electorate, has now put a stop to this kind of discrimination – a policy powerfully endorsed by the king though succession in the monarchy remains, for the moment, exempt from reform. Primogeniture: The second sex | Editorial
Quinborough was a little town of 3,000 inhabitants clustering round the gates of a great Whig Marquis, which had been spared, — who can say why? — at the first Reform Bill, and having but one member had come out scatheless from the second. The American Senator
By Don Marquis, in "archys life of mehitabel," if all the verse what i have wrote were boiled together in a kettle twould make a meal for every goat from nome to popocatapetl mexico and all the prose what i have penned if laid together end to end would reach from russia to south bend indiana but all the money what i saved from all them works at which i slaved is not enough to get me shaved every morning and all the dams which i care if heaped together in the air would not reach much of anywhere they wouldnt because i dont shave everyday and i write for arts sake anyway and always hate to take my pay Archy s autobiography
The Florentines recalled the marquis of Ferrara, and engaged the marquis of Mantua; they also as earnestly requested the Venetians to send them Count Carlo, son of The History of Florence
For as long as there has been voting, there have been arguments about how to do it, with the Marquis de Condorcet identifying the paradoxical possibility of the majority contradicting itself at the ballot box over 200 years ago. AV referendum: Voting about voting | Editorial
In Mine de Pompadour at Her Toilette the marquise is shown in the act of performing her toilette.
I would have given my life willingly for what you call a trifle, sir," said the marquis, with a bow to Osra. McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 2, January, 1896
Early models of steamboats include the steam-driven paddle-wheel boat built by French nobleman Marquis Claude de Jouffroy d' Abbans and tested on the Satne River in 1783.
The wine was excellent, notwithstanding its having been brought in a runlet from Edinburgh; and the habits of the Marquis, when engaged with such good cheer, were somewhat sedentary. The Bride of Lammermoor
After receiving permission from the duke of Cardona, viceroy of Cataluna, to proceed into Spain, she remained some weeks under the protection of the marquis de los Velez in Zaragoza.
“I would hardly,” said the Marquis, “consent to your throwing away your birthright in this manner, were I not perfectly confident that Lady Ashton, or Lady Douglas, or whatever she calls herself, will, as Scotchmen say, keep her threep; and that her husband dares not contradict her.” The Bride of Lammermoor
Despite his much vaunted lack of emotional attachment to the trappings of title, the marquis has been cited as conducting his business with a distinctly aristocratic hauteur.
If you are but little known at Paris, you may there be a count or a marquis as long as you please; if you are connected with the law of finance, though the king should confer on you a real marquisate, you will not, therefore, be monsieur le marquis. A Philosophical Dictionary
The fine marquisate of Froidfond was accordingly conveyed down the gullet of Monsieur Grandet, who, to the great astonishment of Saumur, paid for it, under proper discount, with the usual formalities. Eug�nie Grandet
The stir created by these exiles was eclipsed in 1824 by the return to the United States of the marquis de Lafayette, an even more eminent Frenchman, after an absence of forty years.
Then, your defrauder is the Marquis de Valorsay! Baron Trigault's Vengeance
With these phantoms, priests were sometimes mingled, frequenters of this ancient salon, and some gentlemen; the Marquis de Sass***, private secretary to Madame de Berry, the Vicomte de Val**, who published, under the pseudonyme of Charles – Antoine, monorhymed odes, the Prince de Les Miserables
Notwithstanding an evil report circulated against her by Mme. d'Espard, the princesse told Daniel d'Arthez that the marquise was her best friend; she was related to her. Repertory of the Comedie Humaine Part 1
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She was the daughter of a marquis, Sir Armand de Calais.
It is as necessary to cross-question the Marquise as it is to examine the The Commission in Lunacy
The "booke" presented by Heywoode to the Marquis of Winchester was _A Notes and Queries, 1850.12.21 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc.
It is used to make lightweight, open-mesh fabrics, such as marquisette. HOME COMFORTS
However, it is my argument that the significance of this picture goes still beyond the specifics of the marquise's tribulations at court.
The correct blazon, I believe, would be: Or, an eagle double-headed, displayed sable, dimidiated, and impaling gu. a key in pale argent, the wards in chief, and turned to the sinister; the shield surmounted with a marquis 'coronet. Notes and Queries A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Geneologists, etc
The lady smiled, courtesied, and gave her hand to the Marquis, by whom, with all the formal gallantry of the time, which did not permit the guest to tuck the lady of the house under the arm, as a rustic does his sweetheart at a wake, she was ushered to the eating-room. The Bride of Lammermoor
Parenthetically I would mention that the flirtatiously deferential pose of the woman in Morning, with her tilted head and averted eyes, highlights the surprisingly uncoquettish demeanor of the marquise.
Nice in a bodyguard," lectured the marquis," is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters. NEVERWHERE
But while England had nobles, it did not have a nobility; legally, the son of a duke or marquis could be only a commoner.
The Marquis would have to marry a woman of noble blood.
Nice in a bodyguard," lectured the marquis," is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters. NEVERWHERE
The following are all modified brilliants: marquise, heart, oval and pear shape.
With Marquis Grissom struggling and James Mouton nursing a wrist injury, the team is taking a look at utility infielder Lou Collier in center field.
M. Poirier, the retired shopkeeper who marries his daughter to a marquis and makes acquaintance with the incommodities incidental to such a piece of luck, is perhaps the actors most elaborate creation; it is difficult to see how the portrayal of a type and an individual can have a larger sweep and a more minute completeness. The Théâtre Francais
The additions of Edgardo Alfonzo, Ray Durham, Jose Cruz Jr. and Marquis Grissom likely will amount to a wash.
The servants of a duke or marquis had seven rows of curls on their state wigs, six on their house wigs and five on their carriage wigs.
The title chosen by Earl Grosvenor for his marquisate is, at all events, appropriate; for it is from within the boundaries of the fair City of Westminster that the largest portion of the princely rent-roll of the family is derived.
The dark chocolate marquise with two chocolate sauces had hardly arrived at the table when it disappeared, testimony to its excellent flavour.
Although her enemies claimed that Pompadour was effectively procuress of the King's pleasures, it seems that the Marquise tolerated, rather than organised, the supply of such women.
The marquise was the wife of the man, who broke his plighted faith to the young Fraulein Van Hoogstraten. The Burgomaster's Wife — Complete
After the marquise's death Voltaire wrote that he mourned her as part of his gratitude to her.
Very shortly the carriage rolled over the paved road of Tours, over the bridge, along the Grande – Rue, and stopped at last before the old mansion of the ci-devant Marquise de A Woman of Thirty
All this internal chain of feudal dependance is artificial and sophisticated; and I would rather hold the baton of my poor marquisate with a firm gripe, and wield it after my pleasure, than the sceptre of a monarch, to be in effect restrained and curbed by the will of as many proud feudal barons as hold land under the Assizes of Jerusalem. The Talisman
The strapless top of her wedding dress was pink taffeta over a high-waisted mauve marquisette cocktail-length skirt. Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth
The marquis sat at the head of the table, and behind his chair stood his old servant Yvon, dressed in Breton mourning-costume in memory of his defunct mistress; that is to say, in blue, black, and yellow. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
These families of counts and marquises proved long-lived, and over time played important roles in different regional and urban contexts.
Marquis of Lindsay in 1706, and Duke of Ancaster and Kesteven in The Journal to Stella
Installed at Versailles in 1745, she was ennobled as Marquise de Pompadour, and for 20 years swayed state policy, appointing her own favourites.
The 12 th marquis was an accomplished jazz pianist and his elder son likes to chill out with his guitar.
It was also said that she was some relation to the Marquis, but only a distant one a cousin, or cousin-german, or something of the sort. The Gambler
By cynically playing on the follies of various discontented peers and MPs, he builds a faction round the marquis.
The Marquise is said to assist the beggarwoman out of pity; the Marquis is described as oddly horrified when he hears the story about a ghost, although he does not understand why — but rather than rounding out the representation of a situation, these points serve to give us the impression that we are being provided with just enough information to facilitate the most formal of links between sentences. Reading, Begging, Paul de Man
The marquise gave the supreme accolade of her approval to the sculptors Pigalle and Falconet by posing for them at full length.
I mean here's a guy whose name on a marquis (ph) used to guarantee a buffo (ph) - I just said "buffo" (ph) - box office. CNN Transcript Apr 9, 2008
Paulina is now faced with having to marry the marquis.
At the outset, we are informed that the Marquis just happened to walk in on the beggarwoman, but the detail is immediately mitigated by the further qualification that this was the room in which he usually kept his guns, as if it was only "somewhat" accidental that he went there after having been hunting. Reading, Begging, Paul de Man
She had been sold when he first beheld her, and should, he muttered austerely, have been ticketed the property of a middle-aged man, a worn - out French marquis, whom she had agreed to marry, unwooed, without love Beauchamp's Career — Volume 1
She inhabited the suite of rooms in which the murder had been committed; her bedchamber was the same which had belonged to the late marquise; her bed was the same; the window by which she had fled was before her eyes; and everything, down to the smallest article of furniture, recalled to her the details of that savage tragedy. Celebrated Crimes (Complete)
The marquis was a fine sportsman and competed in the last London Olympic Games in 1948 when representing Italy at polo. Tattenham Corner
In a word, our interests bind us together; for think not, Lord Grand Master, that, were these allied princes to regain Jerusalem, and place a king of their own choosing there, they would suffer your Order, any more than my poor marquisate, to retain the independence which we now hold. The Talisman
Land behind homes on Athlone and Marquis Avenue has been targeted by dumpers who have left masonry, hedge trimmings, old furniture and carpets at the site.
Daly presented her with a 5-carat marquis diamond ring.
The alcalde was the politician, knowing the affairs of the world and speaking familiarly of the King and the Queen and the Marquis of Cadiz. 1492,
Since the titles of dukes and marquises were restricted, earldoms became, in practice, the senior title.
He might, as long as he lived, lie on the rubber sheet in the center of the bed in the front bedroom where the white marquisette curtains billowed out in the afternoon sea breeze, rustling like palmetto fronds.
One school argues that it was named after the Marquis d' Uxelles whose cook, La Varenne, wrote a popular cookery book in the 17th century (La Varenne himself, however, does not include a recipe for duxelles nor does he use this term).
It was a pale blue marquisette embroidered in tiny daisies, and Grace declared it to be far prettier than her graduating gown of white organdie trimmed with fine lace. Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
Well, technically he is a marquis until his father passes on and the title of duke will be officially his.
The article mentions the Marquis de Condorcet who proposed a "Condorcet criterion" for voting systems, and AV doesn't always pick the Condorcet winner. AV referendum: Voting about voting | Editorial
Authors Courter and Marquis wrote the book using a fairly friendly and slightly formal style.
Their outrages are most execrable," wrote Marquis Havre; "they demand the most exquisite food, and drink Champagne and Burgundy by the bucketfull. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Volume 29: 1578, part III
When the heavy drag had been adjusted to the wheel, and the carriage slid down hill, with a cinderous smell, in a cloud of dust, the red glow departed quickly; the sun and the Marquis going down together, there was no glow left when the drag was taken off. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11
Marquis Grissom and Tom Goodwin flopped in the role last season and will receive consideration, along with McKay Christensen, Dave USATODAY.com - National League West
For their class, for France, and for their immortal souls, women like the Marquise de la Tour du Pin became convinced of the need for a purposeful revolution in the aristocratic way of life.
But Mell had said the Marquise had married a common man, and that she was disinherited for it.
Marquise, Oriane would marry some one who was not in society, an artist, a fugitive from justice, a scallawag, a free-thinker, that she would pass definitely into the category of what the The Guermantes Way
If the character feels angry, I go crazy; and it's the same with sadness, but with the Marquise, she is sly and calculating and that's my hardest challenge.
This resembles the deadening of the emotions paradoxically required for the exquisitely heightened sensate perception in the Marquis de Sade's novels.
The marquis was an ally in the British parliament during American Revolution.
On the heels of Calvin Tomkins's recent biographical treatment, we have now another by Alice Goldfarb Marquis - itself the retitled and considerably revised version of an earlier study from 1980.
This marquisate was merged, for about a century, in the dukedom of Bolton.

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