Also Major Dobbin's name appeared in the lists of one or two great parties of the nobility, which circumstance had a prodigious effect upon the old aristocrat of Russell Square.

Set your aristocrat in the wilderness to earn his living by the sweat of his brow,let the rain and wind beat upon his delicate skin,shut him away from all the elevating influences to which he has been accustomed, and, in course of time, what have you?

"Von Taer," the banker had said, "is an aristocrat with an independent fortune, who clings to the brokerage business because he inherited it from his father and grandfather.

There is something very different in the egotism of a silly and self-seeking aristocrat from that of a great benefactor who has something to be proud of, and with whose private experiences the greatest national deeds are connected.

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.

Although the Toy Spaniels are unquestionably true aristocrats by nature, birth, and breeding, and are most at home in a drawing-room or on a well-kept lawn, they are by no means deficient in sporting proclivities, and, in spite of their short noses, their scent is very keen.

A patrician, long before the reforms of the Gracchi, had become a man of secondary importance, but the nobles were aristocrats to the close of the republic, and continued to secure the highest offices; they prevented their own extinction by admitting into their ranks those who distinguished themselves,that is, exercising their influence in the popular elections to secure the magistracies from among themselves.

He was, like Thiers, an aristocrat at heart, although sprung from the middle classes.

As in my country every nobleman has his particular Jew in whom he believes,though he dislikes the race in general,so every democrat has his aristocrat for whom he feels a special weakness.

What put aristocrats into your head?

An aristocrat like Palmerston, loving freedom and hating the upstart despotism, must have looked on at its cold brutality not without that ugly question which Hamlet asked himselfam I a coward?

After them went that ironical aristocrat out of embittered Ireland, with what thoughts we know; and Blucher, with what thoughts we care not; and his soldiers entered Paris, and stole the sword of Joan of Arc.

Never was there, beneath all his assumed Whig principles, a more profound aristocrat than Horace Walpole.

To caper I wish in the chorus of style, And wed an aristocrat after a while So please tell me truly, and please tell me fair, Just how many miles it's from Madison Square.

It is not a mere fashion of false innocence, like that of the French aristocrats before the Revolution, who built an altar to Pan, and who taxed the peasantry for the enormous expenditure which is needed in order to live the simple life of peasants.

We never feel secret qualms at the prospect of meeting strangers, or of taking quarters at a grand hotel, or of entering a large house for the first time, or of walking across a room full of seated people, or of dismissing a servant, or of arguing with a haughty female aristocrat behind a post-office counter, or of passing a shop where we owe money.

One thought of the wild revolutionary song, "Ça ça, ça ira, les aristocrats à la lanterne!"

" He welcomed each lady who came in with a profound bow, and distributed friendly taps on the cheek among the young aristocrats around him.