It did happen by accident that I had to go to the house of a man whom perhaps you would call a grandee, and to meet grandees there. From Wordnik.com. [Phineas Finn The Irish Member] Reference
A grandee is a more harmless animal by far than an Irish Papist. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference
Lord Mandelson wants to be seen as Labour 'grandee'. From Wordnik.com. [BBC News - Home] Reference
Some grandee figures might quit frontline politics. From Wordnik.com. [David Miliband would have to alter his persona. That's very hard] Reference
Don Giovanni remained in Spain a highly respected grandee. From Wordnik.com. [Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day] Reference
With his dark moustaches, he looked like a touring grandee. From Wordnik.com. [Stallion Gate]
Saragossa in 1836 and grandee of Spain 1837 and died in 1847. From Wordnik.com. [The Letter-Bag of Lady Elizabeth Spencer-Stanhope — Volume 1] Reference
"You idiots!" the grandee shouted in amazement from his chair. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Isles] Reference
John Thain is the latest banking grandee to exit ignominiously. From Wordnik.com. [Wall Street's Trust Busters] Reference
English grandee clapping his hands over another grandee's head. From Wordnik.com. [A History of Nursery Rhymes] Reference
By the late '60s, Buckley was the grandee of resurgent conservatism. From Wordnik.com. [He Knew He Was Right] Reference
Don-Pierrot-de-Navarre, grandee of Spain of the first class, and the. From Wordnik.com. [Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others] Reference
He was probably some travelling mountebank apeing the Spanish grandee. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843] Reference
A grandee of the party who happens to be a tax cheat was denied appointment. From Wordnik.com. [Michael B. Laskoff: A Daschle of Hope] Reference
"The pack that walks like a man," Sierra Club grandee David Brower called him. From Wordnik.com. [A Solitary, Singular Life] Reference
Quoth he, 'That there Spanish grandee hath left a thing like a box in his room!'. From Wordnik.com. [In the Garden of Iden] Reference
And the Oscar for best performance as a pompous grandee goes to: Jacques Chirac!. From Wordnik.com. [The Geopolitics Of Pratfalls] Reference
Now they beheld a table of solid silver, once the property of an old Spanish grandee. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
In the interior of the Kasre you might fancy yourself in the house of some grandee of Stamboul or of. From Wordnik.com. [French and Oriental Love in a Harem] Reference
He took her hand like a stricken grandee, bowing over it from his imposing height until his braids met. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman and The Redskins]
"My Spanish grandee!" said Barbara, eyeing her husband dressed in coat and breeches of Puerto Rican cut. From Wordnik.com. [Hornblower In The West Indies]
The Conservative grandee successfully claimed for the costs of hanging a chandelier in his main manor house. From Wordnik.com. [Tory backbenchers in deep water] Reference
He was a splendid type of a young Spanish grandee, tall and lithe of form, with the dark skin and hair of his race. From Wordnik.com. [The Lure of San Francisco A Romance Amid Old Landmarks] Reference
Education, as well as a blooded horse in the stables, and all the other prerequisites of a young blue-grass grandee. From Wordnik.com. [Ride Proud, Rebel!] Reference
Even in the government offices, while waiting for an interview with some grandee, coffee is frequently passed round. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876] Reference
Mr. Beckford was treated as a grandee of the first rank in Germany; he showed me an autograph of the Emperor Joseph. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections of the late William Beckford of Fonthill, Wilts and Lansdown, Bath] Reference
She was guilty of it, her proud and haughty mother had destined Maraquita to be the bride of a wealthy grandee of old. From Wordnik.com. [Kathay: A Cruise in the China Seas] Reference
Ms. Lagarde is France's first woman finance minister, and unlike most of her predecessors, she is not a political grandee. From Wordnik.com. [The 50 Women to Watch 2008] Reference
Like Walter Lippmann, Alsop saw himself as a kind of pundit grandee, entitled to advise the public figures he wrote about. From Wordnik.com. [The Real Cover-Up] Reference
As is well known, this was the original aim of Tony Blair (a faithful protege of Social Democratic party grandee Roy Jenkins). From Wordnik.com. [1931 again? No, a Lib Dem coalition could destroy Labour for good] Reference
Today the shadow chancellor George Osborne has established a review of taxation policy to be headed by the Tory grandee Lord Howe. From Wordnik.com. [Dithering Tories?] Reference
Persian carpet or reclining on the large soft pillow, which is an indispensable luxury for a grandee of the rank and importance of. From Wordnik.com. [A Peep into Toorkisthhan] Reference
Bernardo del Carpio, a Spanish warrior and grandee, having made many ineffectual attempts to procure the release of his father, the. From Wordnik.com. [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 4] Reference
Pembroke Howard, lawyer and bachelor, aged almost forty, was another old Virginian grandee with proved descent from the First Families. From Wordnik.com. [Pudd'nhead Wilson] Reference
Hans to be some grandee under a spell, or bewitched and supposing that when he claims his bride he will be restored to his proper form. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Now, to Steve's point, the feeling in Alaska is that as Ted Stevens became more of a grandee, he lost contact with the people of Alaska. From Wordnik.com. [Obamanomics] Reference
The silver bells attached to the head of the ostrich, and on the top of the canopy over the grandee, tinkled merrily as he came forward. From Wordnik.com. [Dick, Marjorie and Fidge A Search for the Wonderful Dodo] Reference
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