Mr. Iggulden's editors should have also known that the nobiliary particle "von" is not capitalized. From Wordnik.com. [Mongols on the Moskva] Reference
Pythagoravitch Tchertokoutski, one of the leading aristocrats of the district of B —, the most fiery orator at the nobiliary elections and the owner of a very elegant turn-out. From Wordnik.com. [The Calash] Reference
Amongst these latter was above all conspicuous Pythagoras Pythagoravitch Tchertokoutski, one of the leading aristocrats of the district of B-- --, the most fiery orator at the nobiliary elections and the owner of a very elegant turn-out. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
So after the great royal and nobiliary collections that gave rise to the first museums, there appeared less ambitious collections gathered by wealthy enthusiasts who shared a mutual taste for quality, and not only a lure toward curiosity as was common in Renaissance cabinets. From Wordnik.com. [18th Century French Aesthetics] Reference
And as, once he adopted the nobiliary point of view which for him overshadowed everything else, M. de Charlus was capable of the most childish extravagances, he told me, in the same serious tone as if he were speaking of the Marne or of Verdun, that there were most interesting and curious things which should not be excluded by any historian of this war. From Wordnik.com. [Time Regained] Reference
The nobiliary particule he did not add to his signature until the year 1830. From Wordnik.com. [Balzac]
Under the Empire none of the nobiliary titles were allowed, nor any of the names added to the patronymic or original names. From Wordnik.com. [The Brotherhood of Consolation] Reference
The latter abandoned his royal rank and titles, and assumed the merely nobiliary status of a Prince of Noer, in order to make her his consort. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe]
Tchertokoutski, one of the leading aristocrats of the district of B--, the most fiery orator at the nobiliary elections and the owner of a very elegant turn-out. From Wordnik.com. [Taras Bulba and Other Tales] Reference
"Why, the emperor has just issued a decree, providing that in future he shall have the use of the nobiliary particle; from henceforth he will have the right to call himself 'Von Gott'.". From Wordnik.com. [Best Short Stories] Reference
For the memory of individuals is not coincident with their lives and the younger ones who had never experienced what their elders remembered, now being members of society, very legitimately in the nobiliary sense, the beginnings of certain people being unknown or forgotten, took them where they found them, at the point of their elevation or fall, believing it had always been so, that the Princesse de Guermantes and Bloch had always occupied the highest position and that. From Wordnik.com. [Time Regained] Reference
… My mother’s nobiliary title came to her as the oldest child in her family through her grandmother; I inherited this title, which I have never used nor pretend to (even though there are those who want to make me a social climber, hardly necessary given my higher education, refinement, and family upbringing relative to my American counterparts) because I am the oldest child in my family.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Fall of Roberto Polo] Reference
Imagine, therefore, a prince and princess with tastes and dispositions such as these compelled to close up their lovely home, to bid adieu to all their friends, and to take up their residence in the dullest, most uninteresting and provincial of cities, situated in the least picturesque portion of the empire; where the only society consists of bureaucrats of the most starchy description, with no ideas beyond their office, or of impoverished landowners, belonging to the district, whose nobiliary pretensions can only be compared with the paucity of their resources, and whose conversation and even intellect is restricted to mangelwurzels, potatoes, and the different grades of fertilizers. From Wordnik.com. [The Secret Memoirs of the Courts of Europe]
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