I was infinitely obliged for this advice, for M. Morosini was a personage of the greatest importance. From LearnThat.org. [yourdictionary.com]
A strange personage appeared at the door. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
One of these heroines was Andromache, the title personage of "The. From Wordnik.com. [The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield] Reference
So far as egotism is concerned, he was clearly anticipated by the titled personage to whom. From Wordnik.com. [Over the Teacups] Reference
I have clicked on "follow" and discover that the Twitter "personage" is in fact a website called Scandinavian Crime Fiction: your foray into Northern deviance. From Wordnik.com. [Websites] Reference
The friendship and esteem of such a personage is the highest encomium. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works] Reference
How miserable a personage is the Italian that flits through Browning's pages when contrasted with this hero. From Wordnik.com. [The Influence of Old Norse Literature on English Literature] Reference
A titled personage is still mainly an inconceivable being to us; he is like a goblin or a fairy in a storybook. From Wordnik.com. [Henry James, Jr.] Reference
Your 'lamprey' was right on the money, and I agree with Donna as well - I feel the same way about that certain personage. From Wordnik.com. [Lampreys, Megamouths and Cane Toads: Overmarketing] Reference
So potent, so august a personage was the first among the sovereigns of the world to receive the Divine Summons, and the first among. From Wordnik.com. [God Passes By] Reference
Another personage was his nephew, the astronomer E. Bouvart, and a third was the noted Prussian, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, Director of the. From Wordnik.com. [Notable Events of the Nineteenth Century Great Deeds of Men and Nations and the Progress of the World] Reference
The principal company was led by one Lehi, described as a personage of some importance and wealth, who had formerly lived at Jerusalem in the reign of. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of "Mormonism"] Reference
My grandmother vouched for the fact that her father had sold the documents and parchments in which these details were set forth, to a titled personage from Madrid. From Wordnik.com. [Youth and Egolatry] Reference
The list given will point to the kind of personage in question. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.] Reference
His future was to grow a fatter and fatter paunch under the frock coat of a "personage"!. From Wordnik.com. [The Torrent Entre Naranjos] Reference
As he looked back over his career as a "personage," he could have summed it up in three words: he had married. From Wordnik.com. [The Torrent Entre Naranjos] Reference
She had received a strong impression of his being a "personage," and she had occupied herself in examining the image so conveyed. From Wordnik.com. [The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 1] Reference
José Ortega y Gasset - that man, as he exists in the world, is "equivalent to an actor bidden to represent the personage which is his real I.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily] Reference
Bulgarian statesman, diplomat, "personage" (for whom I have not -- generally speaking and with particular exceptions -- nearly so much admiration). From Wordnik.com. [Bulgaria] Reference
"personage" who ought to set an example for others!. From Wordnik.com. [The Torrent Entre Naranjos] Reference
'personage' in his section, and was now a captain in the Fédérés. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843] Reference
Then, we reached for the hem on any foreign personage. From Wordnik.com. [Fragment from an Untelevised Revolution] Reference
Is it not touching on the part of so great a personage?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"Is it of Time you speak," said the Queen, "or of a real personage?". From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And at their head was no less personage than Professor Beecher himself. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
If Camors saw this personage he did not honor him with the slightest notice. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
They'd both been too busy, or too hungry, to feed the person inside the personage. From Wordnik.com. [The Dimaggio Nobody Knew] Reference
During the hour with the official personage she had been obliged to contain herself. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"I don't know, Madame," answered this personage, condescendingly, without taking his hat off. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Well, it seems this personage did not think himself sufficiently well-paid for his complicity. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The presence of that personage in the Cabinet was necessary, and he hesitated between two portfolios. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Was it, indeed, the same personage who recited the verses of a hymn in the catacombs a few hours before?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Was he satisfied in the desire, almost morbid, to figure in the eyes of those who knew him as an extraordinary personage?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This personage was always one wherever he was -- in an omnibus, while putting on his suspenders, even with the one he loved. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Descended from a Corsican family, this personage came to Rome when very young, about 1835, and at first became a seminarist. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
This personage is as attractive as Don Juan, brave as Murat, a poet like Shakespeare, and as charitable as St. Vincent de Paul. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Camors found the General had not exaggerated the local importance of this personage, and that it was most essential to conciliate him. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The old man wore a close red cap, a large 'robe-dechambre', and purple silk stockings; he was no less a personage than Armand Duplessis. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
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