How To Use Personage In A Sentence

The word patriarch as applied to Biblical personages comes from the The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip
There was a small red carpet, with candles around it and a smattering of journalists and photographers, talking to important personages and taking their pictures.
And the connection must be through an agnate ancestor some generations older than the Royal personage.
Tracing the growth of the border is a pleasant pastime, a game of history in which amorini, grotesques and nymphs are the personages, and garlands of flowers their perpetual accessories, but first comes the time when there were no borders, the Middle Ages. The Tapestry Book
That that personage now in possession of the bishop of Bristoll Deane of Yorke (it being an indowment of the said Deanerie) such slender care hath bene had by him for the preaching of the Gospell unto the said parishioners, and giving them that Christianlike and necessarie instru [~c] on which is fitting, as for a long time they scarce had any sermon at all amongest them. The Evolution of an English Town

Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy; as well as many others, including the Doctor's lover, a Hapsburg We Have All Been Disgraced By Corruption, A Review of Eric Ambler's Doctor Frigo
The audiences before whom _The Revenge_ was produced evidently showed themselves ill-affected towards such a medley of purely fictitious creations, and of historical personages and incidents, treated in the most arbitrary fashion. Bussy D'Ambois and The Revenge of Bussy D'Ambois
One is, the multitude of chimnies lately erected; whereas in their young days, there were not above two or three, if so many, in most uplandish towns of the realm; (the religious houses and manor-places of their lords always excepted, and peradventure some great personage;) but each made his fire against a reredosse in the hall where he dined and dressed his meat. The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
Not to dally longer with the sympathies of our readers, we think it right to premonish them that we are composing an epicedium upon no less distinguished a personage than the Lottery, whose last breath, after many penultimate puffs, has been sobbed forth by sorrowing contractors, as if the world itself were about to be converted into a blank. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864
The almost universal desire to possess some kind of armorial insignia, implies a corresponding recognition of the necessity to obtain them from some Institution or Personage, supposed to be competent and authorised both to determine what they should be, and to impart a right to accept and to assume and bear them. The Handbook to English Heraldry
Today, at forty - eight , Mckenty was an exceedingly important personage.
Sidonia, in spite of the whispered dislike of an illustrious personage, opened the campaign with all the full appanages of a giant of the highest standing. Framley Parsonage
There be of them diverse personages of good haviour (_sic_): and it is said amongst the same, that after they have delivered their confession to the King, that the spiritualty of The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
She addressed her young guest with civilities suitable for a personage of advanced years and uncertain appetite.
But there are records of Antony which represent him as a far more genial and human personage; full of a knowledge of human nature, and of a tenderness and sympathy, which account for his undoubted power over the minds of men; and showing, too, at times, a certain covert and "pawky" humour which puts us in mind, as does the humour of many of the Egyptian hermits, of the old-fashioned Scotch. The Hermits
Victor has a preference for Hunsden, full as strong as I deem desirable, being considerably more potent decided, and indiscriminating, than any I ever entertained for that personage myself. The Professor, by Charlotte Bronte
He is fast becoming a personage.
Amongst the personages of a lower class, the most prominent is Toussaint Gilles, landlord of the Cheval Patriote, and son of one of the revolutionary butchers of the Reign of Terror; a furious republican, who wears a _carmagnole_ and a red cap, inherits his father's hatred of the vile aristocrats, and prides himself on his principles, and on a truculent and immeasurable mustache. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 379, May, 1847
The Venerable Bede speaks of as many as three personages, Saxons by their names, who in the Isle of Ireland led the "Pilgrim" or anchoritic life, to obtain a country in heaven; and tells of a The Hermits
She received all attentions from the Royal Family as her due, and knew not how to draw the distinction between what was due to her own merit and what was given by these personages as due to their _own_ high standard of courtesy and compassion. The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty
Including the pompous local police commissaire; the unflappable intelligence officer from France; the slimy representative of the international oil cartel; and the personages - intelligence, governmental, and clerical - of the remnants of the civilian oligarchy. ALL DISGRACED BY CORRUPTION
In narrative, no doubt, the writer has the alternative of telling that his personages thought so and so, inferred thus and thus, and arrived at such and such a conclusion; but the soliloquy is a more concise and spirited mode of communicating the same information; and therefore thus communed, or thus might have communed, the Lord of Glenvarloch with his own mind. The Fortunes of Nigel
Be that as it will, he is a personage of a very portly appearance, and is quite master of the bienseance. The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
Man_, could not better employ their speculative minds than in determining the origin and antiquity of the venerable "joes" which have been in circulation beyond the remembrance of that mythical personage, The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings
O filme é lindo o livro melhorrrrr ainda e aqui no Brasil já estamos na espera do próximo “eclipse” que pra mim foi o melhor livro e que une os 3 personagens espero ver Michael Sheen novamente ele é ótimo. Michael Sheen: Interview with 'New Moon' star on fitting in with the cast | EW.com
Those of the first class, well known as the insignia of certain eminent personages and powerful houses, were borne by all the followers, retainers, dependants, and partisans of those personages and houses: and they were so borne by them, and they were used by their owners for every variety of decorative purpose, because they were _known and understood_; and, consequently, because the presence of these Badges would cause all persons and objects bearing them to be readily and certainly distinguished. The Handbook to English Heraldry
Diônê], one of the _agnomina_ of Venus (properly her mother's name) and intended to denote the amorous temperament of his personage, to which, indeed, the erotic character of most of the stories told by him bears sufficient witness.] The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
The Venerable Bede speaks of as many as three personages, Saxons by their names, who in the Isle of Ireland led the “Pilgrim” or anchoritic life, to obtain a country in heaven; and tells of a Drycthelm of the monastery at Melrose, who went into a secret dwelling therein to give himself more utterly to prayer, and who used to stand for hours in the cold waters of the Tweed, as St. Godric did centuries afterwards in those of the Wear. The Hermits
At the gallery, thick black electrical cords lay slack along the floor, connecting these polyluminous personages to their respective wall sockets.
The enquirer finds a similar difficulty when he tries in the twentieth century to identify rural deities, or even the tutelaries of many great temples, with any personages recognized by the canonical literature. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 1
Even Homer felt this need, and did not scruple to introduce not only second sight, but gods and goddesses, and to bring their supernatural agency to bear directly on the personages of his chant, and that far more freely than any Norse sagaman. Eric Brighteyes
I have clicked on "follow" and discover that the Twitter "personage" is in fact a website called Scandinavian Crime Fiction: your foray into Northern deviance. Websites
What perversity would inspire a busy corporate spokesman to lavish devotion on such an inert and - let's face it - steadfastly unlovable personage for more than two decades?
His sensations, on entering this vast repository of arms, were not unlike those attributed to a personage whose fictitious adventures, though the production of a _Feringhi_ pen, present one of the most faithful pictures extant of the genuine feelings of an oriental on Frank matters: -- "When we came to the guns," says the eximious Hajji Baba, "by my beard, existence fled from our heads! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843
We know that he deals with assafoetida because one of the personages (the one who lifts up his arm toward the beam of the scale) holds in his right hand something resembling that which is in the scale, and the Greek word traced near it signifies Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures
This latter personage was first summoned to the apartment of the Laird, where, after some short space, the soul-curer and the body-curer were invited to join him. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
This venerable personage was no other than the patrico, or hierophant of the Canting Crew. Rookwood
This noted personage is a Eutaw by birth, but forsook his own people and joined the Py-Euts, after he became a man, and by his prowess and bravery, acquired such an ascendency over the tribe of his adoption, as to become their principal chief. Life in the Rocky Mountains
For that matter, these days, most important personages using public transportation travel incognito.
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
Some studies of the period declare their purposes by featuring a personage - absent, I would guess, from all school wallcharts of the Kings and Queens of England - called James III (and sometimes a monarch called Charles III).
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We have seen, throughout or nearly throughout the last volume, how very long it was before its powers and advantages were properly appreciated; how mere _récit_ dominated fiction; and how, when the personages were allowed to speak, they were for the most part furnished only or mainly with harangues -- like those with which the "unmixed" historian used to endow his characters. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century
It is surprising how soon historical personages became invested with romantic attributes.
I suspect that the artist or PR person for this event had many similar reactions from various Z list media personages around the capital.
Not that I'm comparing myself to such a grand personage, but there is in Brazilians, especially the cariocas, a great thirst for exotic phenomena which are linked to ‘outside’ mythologies.
Within this silvan palace the most important personages present were invited to hold high festival. The Fair Maid of Perth
I recommend that these few personages be accorded the honorary status of ‘Recognized-Friends-of-the-Committee’ as they wander the rest of their days in the void of this empty world.
But it was long ere these scandalous and immoral sports could be abrogated; — the rude multitude continued attached to their favourite pastimes, and, both in England and Scotland, the mitre of the Catholic — the rochet of the reformed bishop — and the cloak and band of the Calvinistic divine — were, in turn, compelled to give place to those jocular personages, the Pope of The Abbot
“I have a unique, non-duplicable card catalogue of the DNA of these great personages,” Reznikoff told me. A Claim to Camelot
Then the dalmatic, which is said to be the most beautiful piece of embroidery in the whole world; the Imperial dalmatic, on which is celebrated the glory of Jesus Christ upon the earth and in heaven, the Transfiguration, and the Last Judgment, in which the different personages are embroidered in silks of various colours, and in silver and gold. The Dream
a strange personage appeared at the door
And when he had long beholden his manner and order sayd: “Your personage doth not degenerate from the fame of your progenitors, but I would fayne knowe, howe pacient you were in the tyme of your pouertie.” The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
She appeared to be a princess or a personage of high importance anyway.
There are also historical personages with almost mythical status - Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake, Admiral Nelson.
Political and royal personages from many countries attended the funeral.
Kozinski believes that "traditionalism" can become an ideology that makes one spiritually sick, "as one becomes more attached to the traditionalist movement, its narratives, personages, publications, polemics, criticisms, etc than to the Church as a whole - and to Christ Himself". On "Gnostic Traditionalism"
It is surprising how soon historical personages became invested with romantic attributes.
Harold had won fame and wealth as a Viking, and had been an important personage at the Byzantine Court.
Countenances of such amazement were turned towards him, that Small, who had a keen sense of the ludicrous, could scarcely forbear smiling as he proceeded; and if we could suspect so grave a personage of waggery, we should almost think that, by way of retaliation, he had palmed some abstruse, monkish epicedium upon his astounded auditors. Rookwood
he was too politic to quarrel with so important a personage
It is surprising how soon historical personages became invested with romantic attributes.
Then he drew a second pear, exactly like the former, except that one or two lines were scrawled in the midst of it, which bore somehow a ludicrous resemblance to the eyes, nose, and mouth of a celebrated personage; and, lastly, he drew the exact portrait of Louis Philippe; the well-known toupet, the ample whiskers and jowl were there, neither extenuated nor set down in malice. The Paris Sketch Book
For in the April of the following year another commission, composed of a professor of theology, a military personage, and a magistrate of the name of John de Newton, was sent with letters to the Pope, to nine cardinals, to the referendary of the Papal court, and to three nephews of his Notes and Queries, Number 12, January 19, 1850
It took in persons who were more than persons -- personages; it passed over the impassive face of a dark ameer who looked as if he might have stepped from one of the pages of _The Arabian Nights_, and lingered on a box a little farther to one side. Half A Chance
Suppose you should have drawn your first breath among the _lower classes_, -- suppose it should have been your lot to crouch and bend, or be trodden under foot by some titled personage, whom in your heart you despised; what then? Sanders' Union Fourth Reader
The chief personage in it was a lady reclining at full length on a long couch, and being dragged along, looking the picture of misery, emaciated to the last degree, her head drawn back almost in a state of opisthotonos, her hands and arms clenched and contracted, her eyes fixed and staring at the sky. Fat and Blood An Essay on the Treatment of Certain Forms of Neurasthenia and Hysteria
The play of concavity and convexity is announced by a pair of Tanktotems, watchful, hieratic personages built out of slender, vertical steel components and sliced tank ends. Works of Many Dimensions
Forms of address and titles for important personages can be found in reference books.
It appears more probable, however, either that Lully the alchemist was a personage distinct from the Lully whose life we have sketched above, or that the alchemistic writings attributed to him are forgeries of a similar nature to the works of pseudo-Geber (§ 32). Alchemy: Ancient and Modern
Look up interesting anecdotes of famous personages that demonstrate your point admirably, and insert them.
Sandwich, being the second houre of that daie, whilest the sunne shone verie bright and cleare, there appeared a most brightsome and vnaccustomed clearnesse, not farre distant from the sunne, as it were to the length and breadth of a mans personage, hauing a red shining brightnesse withall, like to the rainbow, which strange sight when manie beheld, there were that prognosticated the king alreadie to be arriued. Chronicles of England, Scotland and Ireland (2 of 6): England (6 of 12) Richard the First
The waiter, though, bowed before us -- a shockheaded personage in the ruins of a dress suit -- at the same time saying words which I took to be complimentary until one of my friends explained that he had called us something that might be freely translated as a certain kind of female lobster. Europe Revised
The myth may be engaged in the transmission of a narrative of early deeds and events, having a foundation in truth, which truth, however, has been greatly distorted and perverted by the omission or introduction of circumstances and personages, and then it constitutes the _historical myth_. The Symbolism of Freemasonry
If Russia citizen, foreigner and stateless personage are suspected of corrupt case will be found out.
But in old Edinburgh all were piled one on the top of another -- the Parliament House within sight of the shops, the great official and the poor artificer under the same roof: and round that historical spot over which St. Giles's crown rose like the standard of the city, the whole community crowded, stalls and booths of every kind encumbering the street, while special pleaders and learned judges picked their steps in their dainty buckled shoes through the mud and refuse of the most crowded noisy market-place, and all the great personages of Edinburgh paced the "plainstanes" close by at certain hours, unheeding either smell or garbage or the resounding cries of the street. Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
campagne" of an illustrious French personage, who had offered it to the Under Two Flags
He has occasionally been known to give a single bottle to some well-known personage as a fitting mark of his esteem or gratitude for some important service.
Death of Muhammad Amin al-Muhibbi (b. 1651), a Damascene scholar who compiled a biographical dictionary of 17th-century personages in the Middle East (Khulasat al-athar) and a massive anthology of contemporary poetry (Nafhat al-rayhana). 1695
London winter, between Parliaments and rakery, is a little too much without interruption for an elderly personage, that verges towards -- I won't say what. The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
Against a sky of blackness, where pride is abundant and magnanimity scarce, that little man, that mediocre personage, shines with uncommon refulgence.
The soft-eyed dame could scarcely be called a matronly personage. Erling the Bold
– And indeed it was on these occasions that Mrs Rayland seemed to take peculiar pleasure in mortifying Mrs Somerive and her daughters; who dreaded these dinner days as those of the greatest penance; and who at Christmas, one of the periods of these formal dinners, have blest more than once the propitious snow; through which that important and magisterial personage, the body coachman of Mrs Rayland, did not choose to venture himself, or the six sleek animals of which he was sole governor; for on these occasions it was the established rule to send for the family, with the same solemnity and the same parade that had been used ever since the first sullen and reluctant reconciliation between Sir Hildebrand and his sister; when she dared to deviate from the fastidious arrogance of her family, and to marry a man who farmed his own estate – and who, though long settled as a very respectable land-owner, had not yet written Armiger after his name. The Old Manor House
Besides, I saw my friend, the journeyman dyer, in close confabulation with a pea-green personage of his own profession, and was conscious, like Scrub, that they talked of me, because they laughed consumedly. Redgauntlet
To Miss B---- I was indebted for the first doll I remember possessing -- a gorgeous wax personage, in white muslin and cherry-colored ribbons, who, by desire of the donor, was to be called Philippa, in honor of my uncle. Records of a Girlhood
There be of them diverse personages of good haviour (_sic_): and it is said amongst the same, that after they have delivered their confession to the King, that the spiritualty of The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2)
More than a building, though not quite a personage in the novel, the mosque functions more as if it is an implacable yet silent deity imparting sentences on lives sometimes benefic, at other times malefic, but always of life-determining circumstance. G. Roger Denson: The Beauty We Fear: The Mosques of Secular Muslim Writers
Title of _Anax andron_ descendible" (good word, "descendible") "from father to son, and accorded in the poems to personages altogether secondary, Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, September 17, 1892
marauder," from writing about a personage whom Stubbs might have written about, though he had not. The Life of Froude
Your 'lamprey' was right on the money, and I agree with Donna as well - I feel the same way about that certain personage. Lampreys, Megamouths and Cane Toads: Overmarketing
Swedish woman, who lived on tea and sugar, and afterwards had gone away and borne nine children, more frail and anaemic than herself; there had been the stout personage with the Irish brogue who had dropped the Christmas turkey out of the window and had not taken the trouble to go down after it; there had been the little old negress who had gone insane, and hurled the salt-box at his mother's head. Love's Pilgrimage
Even Fritz appeared to be impressed with the belief that the shikaree was the most important personage in the party: for every time that the latter descended from the cliff the dog had paid his "devoirs" to him, frisking around, leaping up, and looking steadfastly in his face, as if congratulating him on being their deliverer! The Cliff Climbers A Sequel to "The Plant Hunters"
The gentleman in the rostrum is a voluble personage, with a rapidly roving eye, of preternatural quickness in picking up "bids. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 21, 1891
Sche allegeis, that sche, seing the defectioun of greit personageis, was compellitt to have recourse to the law of nature, and lyk ane small bird persewit, [964] to provide for sum sure retreitt to hir selff and hir cumpany. The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
I came up to see if you wouldn't come down to-morrow, Mis 'Plumfield," said that personage, with her usual dry, business tone, always a little on the wrong side of sweet; "your brother has taken a notion to ask two young fellers from the Pool to supper, and they're grand folks, I s'pose, and have got to have a fuss made for 'em. Queechy
Of course some of my court appearances before the crowned heads of Europe are dear to me, not so much because they were _court_ appearances, but because of the graciousness and appreciation of the highly placed personages for whom I played. Violin Mastery Talks with Master Violinists and Teachers
Neuerthelesse, she was shortlie after sent home, vnder the conduct of the earle of Worcester, associat with diuerse other noble and honorable personages, both men and women, hauing with hir all the iewels, ornaments, [Sidenote: Additions of the chron. of Flanders.] and plate which she brought into England, with a great surplusage besides giuen to hir by the king. Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
She addressed her young guest with civilities suitable for a personage of advanced years and uncertain appetite.
The most influential people in Cambridge society were present and many personages of notable importance had travelled up from London to attend the event.
For hee surpassed all other in good condicions, valiaunce, goodnes, and beautie of personage, being about sixe yeares elder then Gianetta: who seyng the mayden, to be both fayre and comelye, became so farre in loue with her, as he estemed her aboue all thinges of the worlde. The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1
Tell me, beeldar, what sort of looking personages might these Moussul merchants be? The Pacha of Many Tales
To elucidate and confirm our opinions on this subject, we beg leave to ask, what is that play in which there is such a mass of virtue and simplicity, and such a number of amiable personages, opposed to such a mass of villany, subtlety, fraudful avarice, and sensual vice, as in The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 1
The play of concavity and convexity is announced by a pair of Tanktotems, watchful, hieratic personages built out of slender, vertical steel components and sliced tank ends. Works of Many Dimensions
Political and royal personages from many countries attended the funeral.
It is lighted by six windows of modern stained glass, on one side, and by the immense and magnificent arch of another window at the farther end of the room, its rich and ancient panes constituting a genuine historical piece, in which are represented some of the kingly personages of old times, with their heraldic blazonries. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
Only now, a civilian in a packed mass of civilians, did he recognize what a mighty personage he then was -- a cock of the walk, saluted, "sired," treated with deference. The Mountebank
The name meant nothing to him, he had little interest in Karien politics, but he was bound to be a personage of some note. TREASON KEEP
Now Dekker, in his 'Satiromastix, in which all personal insults are to be avenged [28] (for which reason the chief personages of' The Poetaster 'are introduced under the same name), makes Horace give forth a long song in praise of' heades thicke of hair, 'whilst Crispinus gives another in honour of' balde heads; 'from which we conclude that Chloe's remark on Shakspere and Montaigne
One of these heroines was Andromache, the title personage of "The The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield
Whether he is writing about the Renaissance necromancer John Dee or the religious visions of Thomas More, Ackroyd energetically reanimates his historical personages, and insists their spectres are still tangible here and now.
Brenda is lewd, tough, quick-witted, hilarious - a more vivid character than any fictional personage in recent American movies.
Along with several other practitioners of my trade, and a large number of far more eminent personages, I signed the petition.
Many of the historical personages I have written about have been the subjects of films or TV drama series.
A huge personage, robed in blue, like a snowbank folded in shadow, occupied the temple steps.
Works by Western filmmakers were alive to history and quite often took their cue from real life events and personages.
There were conferences on the quay between important shore personages and our captain and chief medical officer; and a few of us, old-timers by now, leaned over the rail and joked about being back in the paperwork department again.
It's no longer in thrall to important personages and aristocrats.
The last literary personage attempting in all seriousness to formulate rules for fiction was Ayn Rand, her dicta surviving two seasons on the Manhattan literati cocktail circuit.
The first major championship for eight long months doubles as a meeting place for just about every golf official and important personage.
The earliest Egyptian paintings to which it is possible to assign a date, are executed in tempera upon the walls of certain tombs made for the noble personages who were contemporary with King Khufu (better known as Cheops), the builder of the Great Pyramid. Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers
But any reader might be pardoned for not at once divining that the double rillet of minstrelsy, on page 37, was the Troubadour and the Trouvere, nor for refusing to read pages 155 and 156 without a tolerable outfit of information upon the historical points and personages there catalogued. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 79, May, 1864
Then Foxy Davis had seemed a debonair remotely superior, and glamorous personage.
She addressed her young guest with civilities suitable for a personage of advanced years and uncertain appetite.
He had always thought that Air Force One jets were reserved for very important personages, like the president.
In no other of Marie's lays is the roster of personages so heavily weighted toward a single gender.
It was in vain that Archie, unwilling to have it thought that he had been worsted in diplomacy, argued that with these political personages, and especially with Russian political personages, the ambages were everything — that the preliminaries were in fact the whole, and that when they were arranged, the thing was done. The Claverings
But in the first place, it is to be observed, that there seems to have been a blunder in this transaction; for according to the Hebrew idiom of the passage quoted above, the personage there spoken of, was to ride upon an ass colt; whereas, the apostles, in order to be sure of fulfilling the prophecy, represent Jesus as riding upon an ass, and the colt, too! The Grounds of Christianity Examined by Comparing The New Testament with the Old
The prominent personage among the guests at the dinner party I found to be Mr. Murthwaite.
In an old court of the old town lived a certain elderly personage, perhaps sixty, or thereabouts; he was rather tall, and something of a robust make, with a countenance in which bluffness was singularly blended with vivacity and grimace; and with a complexion which would have been ruddy, but for a yellow hue which rather predominated. Lavengro
He would stare dumfounded at the erudite personage at the head of the class; Leander's bare feet were always carefully adjusted to a crack between the puncheons of the floor, literally "toeing the mark"; his broad trousers, frayed out liberally at the hem, revealed his skinny and scarred little ankles, for his out-door adventures were not without a record upon the more impressionable portions of his anatomy; his waistband was drawn high up under his shoulder-blades and his ribs, and girt over the shoulders of his unbleached cotton shirt by braces, which all his learning did not prevent him from calling "galluses"; his cut, scratched, calloused hands were held stiffly down at the side seams in his nether garments in strict accordance with the regulations. The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
In the midst of this _entourage_ stood the "bar-keeper," and in this individual do not picture to yourself some seedy personage of the waiter class, with bloodless cheeks and clammy skin, such as those monstrosities of an English hotel who give you a very _degout_ for your dinner. The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West
The personages described in these pages are not men.
The alchemy of the different charismata of important personages, now forgotten, of the effects of traumatic events, now fortuities of history, is there, but it is far from easy to sort out the genealogies and decipher the reasons.
The identity of the personage in whose honour the dinner was given might have something to do with this, she thought. MISS MELVILLE REGRETS
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The experiment indicated that using this engine can render a realistic individual face, which meet the demand of accuracy and efficiency that personage's model must equilibrate in the game.
A woman who appears to be a downcast person who lives under bridges, turns out to be has a metamorphose into a princess and has a regal personage.
His name occurs sometimes, though not so frequently as some others, in the appellations of important personages, as _e, g. _ in that of Sennacherib, which is explained to mean "Sin multiplies brethren. The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 2. (of 7): Assyria The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.
There are no owners for this property but the nation, an indeterminate, invisible personage; no barrier other than so many seals exists between the spoils and the despoilers, that is to say, so many strips of paper held fast by two ill-applied and indistinct stamps. The French Revolution - Volume 3
A grand painted hatchment was already over the great entrance, and two very solemn and tall personages in black flung open each a leaf of the door as the carriage pulled up at the familiar steps. Vanity Fair
I say this new personage who makes her appearance upon the drama of human affairs informs you that you and your religion, under the conduct of the male, generative, fecundative principle of the sex, have filled the world with blood from one end to the other of it. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume II
Now Abel Ah Yo, in his theology and word wizardry, was as much mixed a personage as Billy Sunday. WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL
Ingland, thair intelligence than was persavit: yit hir Grace trestis the Quene of Ingland (lett thame seik as thay pleise) will do the office of ane Christiane Princes in tyme of ane sworne peax; throw quhilk force was to hir Grace (seand sua greit defectioun of greit personageis,) to have recourse to the law of nature; and lyk as ane small bird, being persewit, will provide sum nest, sua hir The Works of John Knox, Vol. 1 (of 6)
So far as egotism is concerned, he was clearly anticipated by the titled personage to whom I have referred, who says of himself, "I am the first in the East, the first in the West, and the greatest philosopher in the Western world. Complete Project Gutenberg Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Works
He walks with a quick sure gait and the self-confidence of a haughty personage.
It may be affirmed that the writers of the age of Louis XIV would not have used these expressions: they would never have thought of using the word "equality" without applying it to some particular object; and they would rather have renounced the term altogether than have consented to make a living personage of it. Democracy in America, volume 2
The beadle is a very grand personage, and his appearance sufficiently indicates this fact. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
It features a number of Afghan characters, some based on historical personages and some blatantly fictional.
A man cannot tell whether Apelles, or Albert Durer, were the more trifler; whereof the one, would make a personage by geometrical proportions; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces, to make one excellent. The Essays
Political and royal personages from many countries attended the funeral.
We had seats in the Abbey and were able to see the Royal personages passing up the aisle fairly well, but I could not get excited.
Though how many distinguished personages pass through these days is open to debate.
Received random mass email from mysterious personage entitled "Edward Champion" which we almost deleted but then it turns out this entity is also affiliated with "The Bat Segundo Show," a podcast series of interviews with, like, almost every interesting author in the universe. Archive 2010-03-01
The trouble is that this alternative tradition plays into the hands of the witch doctor, the shaman, the faith healer—all those practitioners who, in place of the reassuring diploma, potted plant, and receptionist, accoutre themselves with ethnic arcana, nonspecific aromas, and hypnotic auras, which serve to mystify the personage of said practitioner even more than the already enigmatic illness. BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES
One of the principal personages in the comic part of the drama was, as we have already said, a quaestionary or pardoner, one of those itinerants who hawked about from place to place relics, real or pretended, with which he excited the devotion at once, and the charity of the populace, and generally deceived both the one and the other. The Abbot
He has a real scientific interest in butterflies and moths, but other than that he is in my mental image of him quite a straightforward personage, except for what he wrote. Father Ralph and Humbert Humbert « Tales from the Reading Room
Scholars have waged war over the theories of transmission of the so-called Arthurian material during the centuries which elapsed between the time of the fabled chieftain's activity in 500 A.D. and his appearance as a great literary personage in the twelfth century. Four Arthurian Romances
These exalted personages never seem to tire of a joke however often it is repeated.
I have the ability to pour myself at will into other cartoon personages - male, female or indeterminate.
Begone from my presence, thou born monster, storehouse of lies, hoard of untruths, garner of knaveries, inventor of scandals, publisher of absurdities, enemy of the respect due to royal personages! Don Quixote
Nor do they ever name any of those great personages who have intermeddled in civil affairs, but only to scoff at them and abolish their glory. Essays and Miscellanies
There is no evidence for such a historical personage.
As the narrated intro says, “A rag-tag band lead by the infamous Captain EO” travels the universe to present a gift to the evil Supreme Leader (Anjelica Huston) in an attempt to turn her into a personage of beaming goodness. Top 10 3D Movies So Far » Scene-Stealers
In fact, the title of the 1594 edition declares that the "excellent conceitful sonnets of Henry Constable" are "augmented with divers quartorzains of honourable and learned personages;" and Sidney has been found to be one of the "honourable and learned personages" whose works were laid under contribution to make the book; but since the whole first and second decades are the same as in the earlier volume by "H.C." which contained also the King James sonnets attributed by numerous contemporaries to Henry Constable, and since as yet, beside the ten by Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles Delia - Diana
Heracles, the most renowned subjugator of all the semi-divine personages worshipped by the Hellenes, — a being of irresistible force, and especially beloved by Zeus, yet condemned constantly to labour for others and to obey the commands of a worthless and cowardly persecutor. The Iliad of Homer
So far as egotism is concerned, he was clearly anticipated by the titled personage to whom Over the Teacups
He must be a very important NF personage to have such a prominent spot in the photo shoot.
First, she is the sheikha, the first lady of Matar, a personage of reputation and authority. Florence of Arabia (Part II)
Dancers perform and various personages enact their masquerade roles before the major characters make their appearances.
“If it happens I will celebrateâ€ ¦ not a second before.” my sentiments exactly … rove is perhaps the most transcendentally evil personage in the entire bushco rogues gallery with the possible exception of dick cheney … he needs to be put out of commission – permanently … Think Progress » Matthews on Rove Indictment: ‘It Could Be Today’
They seem all to have run into that general mistake of forming a new personage from a title, and making the Deity a native, where he was inshrined. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)
a sacred personage as an aruspex or diviner: I mean the poisoning by incantation. Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
I took to be Mexicans, by their velvet jackets, slashed pantaloons and filagreed hats; darkly weathered, leathery faced, long-haired personages, no doubt scouts and trappers, in fringed buckskins and beaded moccasins; blanket wrapped Indians; and women. Desert Dust
He found installed in the house a personage whom he describes as tall, fair, noisy, coxcombical, flat-faced, flat-souled. Rousseau
The moment had arrived when it was thought that the mask and cothurn might again be assumed with effect; when a grave and conventional personage might decorously make his appearance to perform an interlude of clemency and moderation with satisfactory results. The Rise of the Dutch Republic — Complete (1555-84)
It is certain that either she or some other influential personage succeeded in gaining possession of the proofs of Julia's guilt and brought them to Augustus, threatening to lay them before the pretor and to institute proceedings if he did not discharge his duty. The Women of the Caesars
Não sei se já ouviram falar que o Saci na verdade é um personagem indígena e que tem duas pernas, é provável que não ouviram ainda, pois eu fui o primeiro que escreveu dois livros que fala sobre esse personagem, tenho dois livros com o título - Ajuda do Saci, da Editora DCL, e o outro que se chama - O Saci Verdadeiro, da Editora UEL. Global Voices in English » Brazil: Indian writers and poets on the blogosphere
Enter R. an important-looking personage with a long white beard, wearing a costume which might be, called a commissionaire's if it wasn't so like a harlequin's. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-04-14
The relics of those delicacies were not yet removed, either from the table or from the scorched countenance of Affery, who, with the kitchen toasting – fork still in her hand, looked like a sort of allegorical personage; except that she had a considerable advantage over the general run of such personages in point of significant emblematical purpose. Little Dorrit
Aristotle and of Horace, precede the introduction of another person into our story; but the portrait and the biography of this personage, this late arrival, shall not be long, taking into consideration his own diminutiveness. Modeste Mignon

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