With the latter attire he puts on a haughty and aristocratic air, and would slap a duke on the shoulder.
Virginia was in her boudoir, still wearing the magnificent gown and wonderful jewels which made her the cynosure of every eye in the Metropolitan's aristocratic horse-shoe circle.
All cats are aristocratic if you just give 'em a chance," he would declare when some cat snob would suggest that he go in for pure breeds.
The rebellion of 1569 was essentially an aristocratic movement; it was a rising of the great families of the north against what they considered the upstart and plebeian administration of the queen.
Out of these circumstances, inevitably arose the aristocratic tendency of Arminianism, and the democratic tendency of Calvinism.
But chivalry, so far from doing this, was in fact a fusion of the aristocratic and the ecclesiastical forms of the protective spirit.
But in the eighteenth century the progress of knowledge became so remarkable, that the new principle of intellectual superiority made rapid encroachments on the old principle of aristocratic superiority.
Out of this difference between the aristocratic power of France and England, there followed many consequences of great importance.
There, to be sure, was a display of unexampled splendour; a galaxy of rank, a noble assemblage of aristocratic insurgents and titled demagogues.
His delicate pastel portraits obtained great vogue in the most aristocratic circles of London.
Born in 1810, the scion of an old aristocratic family, he was brought up with the Duke of Orleans.
He had been received when quite young in the mostaristocratic circles, and "the most celebrated beauties had smiled on him as a youth.
Moreover, Massi himself knew nothing about the boy's parents except that they belonged to the most aristocratic circles, and he was inclined to believe little John to be Quijada's son.
Though the materials which she selected were not the most costly, heraristocratic bearing made them appear valuable.
The future of art depends on no one class of men, aristocratic or democratic.
I cannot understand how an aristocratic gentleman like yourself would otherwise make such an absurd remark.
The various lodging-house quarters vie with each other in genteel cognomens and aristocratic flavor.
He speaks in a tone of light and well-bred irony, with the aristocratic contempt for the plebs, the burgesses, Society's assumption of Exclusive Information.
That fatally aristocratic tendency of the first Forsyte to drink Madeira had left his descendants undoubtedly accessible.
Since his retirement from land agency, a profession deplorable in his estimation, especially as to its auctioneering department, he had abandoned himself to naturally aristocratic tastes.
The only aristocratictrait they could find in his character was a habit of drinking Madeira.
The aristocratic old grandmother would not allow under her roof her son's low-born wife; but she was devoted to her little grandchild.
Her address was almost as familiar as a man's, so that it was easy to be acquainted with her; yet a certain haughtiness and a touch of aristocratic pride made it plain that she had drawn a line which none must pass without her wish.
Octave Feuillet, a man of aristocratic birth, had set himself to write novels which portrayed the cynicism and hardness of the upper classes in France.
There were great families among the plebeians which really belonged to the aristocratic class, at least in the time of Cicero.
Nor did the fall of the old patrician oligarchy divest the Roman commonwealth of its aristocratic character, for a new aristocracy arose.
The first pleaders of Rome were not jurisconsults, but aristocratic patrons looked after their clients.
And yet it were a mistake to suppose that the distinction between the classes implied that the aristocratic power was lodged with the patricians alone.
That organization of society is most aristocratic which confers great political and social privileges on a few men, and retains these privileges from generation to generation, as in France during the reign of Louis XV.
Yet, while the Roman constitution was essentially aristocratic for five hundred years, it had a strong popular element mingled with it.
It was during the conquest of Italy that aristocratic power shone in all its splendor, and the most able men were entrusted with public affairs.
They never had the ascendency, but they enjoyed renewed and increasing power, until they were strong enough to tempt aristocratic demagogues and successful generals.
Yet there were many noble plebeian families who were blended with the aristocratic class.
She possessed in the highest degree the secret of that aristocratic pose by which a woman wipes out the past.
As to the children, they both were handsome, and endowed with a grace which did not exclude an expression of aristocratic disdain.
Her mother, calm and dignified, retained, as did her daughter, a certain aristocratic insolence, with which the two women hedged themselves and preserved the spirit of their caste.
Accustomed to kiss the aristocratic hand that hath purloined him from himself, he degenerates into a composition of art, and the genuine soul of nature forsakes him.
But many men of great and undimmed honor held the same principles: Washington, Jefferson and Franklin and others of the 'Fathers' were Deists, and in England that creed was even fashionable in certain aristocratic quarters.
Standing in the gallery he listened to the badinage of French comedy and saw the types of the Second Empire in aristocratic setting.
When visiting him at the guard-house he was not altogether free from a sense of awe and admiration engendered by the atmosphere of military power and aristocratic rule.
During the summer holidays he acted as tutor to an aristocratic family in the country.
They had the life and adornment of a large family of pretty curly-headed young boys and girls, some of them with the aristocratic fine black hair and cream-white skin of their accomplished mother.
Where it may be, however, when it comes down from thearistocratic threepence to the common penny of its brethren remains to be seen; and I am told that all has long been in readiness for the change when the fitting times arrives.
For many years, and until very recently, French was the language constantly used by educated and aristocratic native Russians, just as it is by the Poles and by the Roumanians.
