Many of the patrician men and women attended the meeting of the parliament. From LearnThat.org.
Suppose Obama, the wise patrician, is elected in 2008. From Wordnik.com. [Your Right Hand Thief] Reference
In later years, he was often described as patrician and courtly. From Wordnik.com. Reference
The patrician was the social superior to the plebeian and his rank was determined by descent. From Wordnik.com. [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference
The patrician was the antique aristocrat, one whose family was listed among the Fathers of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
He started out as a kind of patrician reformer and really became a radical person. From Wordnik.com. [1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft & Debs- The Election That Changed the Country�] Reference
The one good thing is that at least we're getting a pretty unvarnished look at 'patrician' values. From Wordnik.com. [Fox Moment: Fred Barnes Reminisces About Lobbing Softballs At Ford] Reference
As my mother always said (referring to the most prominent feature of her face that's a lot like his), it's the "patrician" look. From Wordnik.com. [Stop and Smell the Second Reviews!] Reference
He was called the "patrician" of Italy, and he ruled the country well. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Men of the Middle Ages] Reference
In several letters he exhorted the "patrician" to use his military power to suppress the schism, and to seize Paulinus. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
With a view to lessen the ill-feeling against him, he went with the "patrician", Narses, to St. Peter's, and, holding the. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip] Reference
'patrician's vocabulary,' and another and very different thing in the plebeian's. From Wordnik.com. [The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded] Reference
Beneath his courtly patrician style, Virginia Gov. From Wordnik.com. [Desperately Seeking Southerners] Reference
Can this aloof, proud patrician be bought so cheaply,.?. From Wordnik.com. [The Trouble With Bentsen] Reference
She blended the taste of an artist with that of a patrician. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The vast majority of the items on offer, are of more patrician taste. From Wordnik.com. [Lehman's corporate art collection goes under the hammer at Christies] Reference
Kennedy was everything Nixon was not-patrician, self-assured and charming. From Wordnik.com. [The Rise And Fall And Rise And Fall And Rise Of N] Reference
A patrician gentleman of the self-aware school of distinguished ego entered the shop. From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Vault of Jean Maria Schwartz in Heaven] Reference
The cool patrician face coming only from an upper-shelf gene pool, the night-black hair. From Wordnik.com. [A Slow Waltz To The Bank] Reference
But the frames the patrician dealer waxes rhapsodic about nowadays appear on his smartphone. From Wordnik.com. [Famed Framer Forges Into a Digital Future] Reference
The struggle was not so much between patrician and plebeian as between the rich and the poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
His patrician bearing wears well, but he'll need to be careful not to convey too much privilege. From Wordnik.com. [A Telegenic Samurai] Reference
Are you aware that this boorish patrician has in his possession the eight types of medal of the gens. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
(Soundbite of laughter) STAMBERG: Her characters are smart, witty, patrician and so is Holland Taylor. From Wordnik.com. [Holland Taylor: A Class Act's Next Tough Dame] Reference
He had a patrician nose, deep set almond eyes and a lantern jaw, all set in a head the size of a grown man. From Wordnik.com. [The man-faced boy] Reference
And either man could effectively carry the Democratic "fairness" theme against the patrician Bush-Quayle ticket. From Wordnik.com. [The Less-Is-More Democrats] Reference
In other words, it won't be a childless career woman such as Dole, or a patrician suburbanite like New Jersey Gov. From Wordnik.com. [You Sure Don't Fit The Profile] Reference
While it lacks Eton's patrician cachet, a respectable 20 percent of its students win places at Oxford or Cambridge. From Wordnik.com. [Royal Drag] Reference
No one thinks right now that a patrician son of the Mississippi Delta is the party's best hope to run against Obama. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Obama] Reference
The company was founded by a partnership led by Ralph Roberts, a soft-spoken gentleman who seems patrician but isn't. From Wordnik.com. [Cable's A-Team] Reference
The patrician Cooke thinks Baker, best known for spoofing quotidian American life, will make an excellent armchair Anglophile. From Wordnik.com. [A Yankee In King Alistair's Court] Reference
But Nixon fails to understand the patrician streak in American politics that made Franklin Roosevelt and John Kennedy so popular. From Wordnik.com. [Bush The Communicator] Reference
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