11 Verbs to Use for the Word grandee

Now it is true that vos, applied to an equal, would have been a solecism; but it is also true that it was the invariable form employed by the sovereign, even when addressing a grandee or a prince of the Church.

Louis the Young, to appease his troubled conscience, and to get reconciled with the pope, to say nothing of sympathy for the national movement, assembled the grandees, laic and ecclesiastical, of the kingdom, to deliberate upon the matter.

For all important affairs, the King generally consulted the grandees of his court; but as in the five or six first centuries of monarchy in France the royal residence was not permanent, it is probable the Council of State was composed in part of the officers who followed the King, and in part of the noblemen who came to visit him, or resided near the place he happened to be inhabiting.

"The king," he said, "purposes to destroy all the grandees of the kingdom and to harry all those who oppose his wishes and the elevation of his minions; it is my duty and my interest to take all the measures necessary for my own preservation and that of the people."

He died Admiral of the Seas, a grandee of Spain,having bishops for his eulogists and princes for his mourners,the founder of an illustrious house, whose name and memory gave glory even to the Spanish throne.

Their city castles, too, were shorn of their towers, which were limited to just so many ells, cloth measure, by the haughty shopkeepers who had displaced the grandees.

To say nothing of the terror with which Richelieu inspired the grandees, who detested him, the Prince of Coude would not have dared to touch Cardinal Mazarin with the tip of his cane, even when the latter "kissed his boots" in the courtyard of the castle at Havre.

Cromwell invited the patrons of this doctrine to meet at his house the grandees (so they were called) of the parliament and army.

Around the hall stood the grandees of Spain and the magnates of the Church, as obsequious and attentive to him now as they had been proud and disdainful when, a hungry wanderer, he had knocked at the gates of La Rabida to beg bread for his son.

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.

With her, Your noble father, Don Manrique Lara, Who summons all the kingdom's high grandees From everywhere, in open letters, to Discuss the common good, as if the land Were masterless and you had died, O King.

11 Verbs to Use for the Word  grandee