181 examples of grandee in sentences

Having executed a statue in Spain for a grandee, he was very much outraged by receiving only thirty scudi as his reward, and accordingly smashed the statue to pieces with a sledge-hammer.

Her father was a grandee at Court in the days of former emperors, and the greatest merchant of his time, and she represented as an aristocrat among her people, a modern Esther, standing and pleading between the Sultan and her nation.

At the age of seventeen, a principal grandee of the court of Charles sought the hand of the general's child.

The captains of the vessels now mentioned, joined in sending several letters to the inhabitants of Old Town, but particularly to Ephraim Robin John, who was at that time a grandee, or principal inhabitant of the place.

The three brothers of the grandee just mentioned, the eldest of whom was Amboe Robin John, first entered their canoe, attended by twenty-seven others, and, being followed by nine canoes, directed their course to the Indian Queen.

As soon as the true intentions of the English were known to General Jackson, who had made up his mind to take possession of Pensacola, he wrote to the Spanish governor,a pompous, inefficient old grandee,and demanded the surrender of certain hostile Creek chieftains, who had taken refuge in the town.

[Fr.]; upper classes, upper ten thousand; the four hundred [U.S.]; elite, aristocracy, great folks; fashionable world &c (fashion) 852. peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling^; grandee, magnifico [Lat.], hidalgo; daimio [Jap.], daimyo [Jap.], samurai

He goes, therefore, to the palace of some grandee, some top-sawyer of the Senatorian order.

A man of birth and of standing; such a grandee as you never even dreamed of.

What a grandee he was, and he's gone to smash!

But for sure he is some great foreign grandee.

not least, the grandee whose successor the originator of the plot afterwards so admirably satirizedthe great Lord Mayor himself.

" Then down he sate in burly state, and blustered like a grandee,

It would not at all suit a grandee to love his wife after she had done her duty, and brought in to the world an heir to his property.

"Sou-Tcheou, 25th May, 2:25 P.M. "Train attacked between Tchertchen and Tcharkalyk by the gang of the celebrated Ki-Tsang; travelers repulsed the attack and saved the Chinese treasure; dead and wounded on both sides; chief killed by the heroic Mongol grandee Faruskiar, general manager of the company, whose name should be the object of universal admiration.

He is in love with Elvi'ra, the betrothed of Don Ruy Gomez de Silva, an old Spanish grandee, whom she detests.

He was, moreover, a grandee of Spain, and one of the most confidential friends of Philip III.

Jack's eyes probed for the soul of the old man; the real soul of the Spanish grandee under the broad-minded, easy-natured, Californian gentleman.

She was commanded by Don Pedro Gilbert, a native of Catalonia, in Spain, and son of a grandee; a man thirty-six years of age, and exceeding handsome, having a round face, pearly teeth, round forehead, and full black eyes, with beautiful raven hair, and a great favorite with the ladies.

But I speak of the crested thunderdrumming cock that struts all ruffed like a Spanish grandee of ancient times.

Like your Spanish grandee, he need not doff his cap to kings.

The captains of the vessels now mentioned joined in sending several letters to the inhabitants of Old Town, but particularly to Ephraim Robin John, who was at that time a grandee or principal inhabitant of the place.

The three brothers of the grandee just mentioned, the eldest of whom was Amboe Robin John, first entered their canoe, attended by twenty-seven others, and, being followed by nine canoes, directed their course to the Indian Queen.

They demanded the person of Amboe Robin John, the brother of the grandee of Old Town, and the eldest of the three on board.

So his mother, the beautiful dancer, was half Jewess, and, from her mother again, half Spanish noble; for this philosopher had eloped with the daughter of a Spanish grandee, and she was erased from the roll.

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