Across the Tay from Dunkeld, in the old duke’s time, reigned an eccentric laird, to whose taste for building are due the baronial Birnam Hotel and other costly structures in the neighbourhood.
The space between me and that distance is infinitely rich with every sort of greenery, dotted here and there with towers and relics of baronial houses.
From these controlling powers they stretch in a long double line to a seated figure, gigantic in size, and robed with the ensigns ofbaronial sovereignty.
So that's why I'm goin' to ask you to come an' share a ninety pounds a year baronial castle in the suburbs of London.
The existing mansion was built by an ancestor of the present Lord Cawdor, upon the site of the baronial residence of that same Sir Elidur de Stackpole, whose tomb we have so lately seen at Cheriton.
At their castle of Llawhaden, the Bishops of St. Davids lived in true baronial style; the fortress constituting the Caput Baroniae, by virtue of which they were entitled to representation in the Parliament of the realm.
Abbotsford was his darling, and the expenses of this domain and of the baronial hospitality which he there extended to all comers were among the causes of his bankruptcy.
It requires but little reflection for any one to realize that to an ancient baronialcastle such a series of paintings as this would be as the breathing of a soul beneath its gray ribs of rock.
But the clerical opposition was soon joined by a baronial opposition.
This was the policy of the statute of Gloucester of 1278, but the baronial opposition was so resolute that Edward was forced to permit many immunities to remain.
In the same spirit he strove to destroy the clerical and baronial opposition.
The baronial leaders could not be wholly overthrown by force, and Edward was compelled to make them fresh concessions.
In common with the baronial opposition he treated Henry III.
It suffered greatly during the baronial wars, and also in the civil ones, when its grand cathedral was used for barracks.
Among the public buildings are a town-hall in the Tudor baronial style, a theatre, seven parish churches, a school of art, and a university.
It is remarked by the people, that few of these baronial robbers ever die natural deaths--that they either kill each other, or are killed sooner or later by the servants of Government.
Also, thebaronial forces were depleted due to war.
This brought royal authority into the localities and served to check baronial power over the common people.
He also agreed not to impose taxes without the consent of Parliament after baronial pressure had forced him to retreat from trying to increase, for a war in France, the customs tax on every exported sack of wool to 40s.
It was a table of baronial proportions, but twenty couples occupied every inch of the space easily.
The main room was like some baronial hall of the old days of war and plunder.
He paused on the balcony and looked proudly over the big, baronial room below them.
A beautiful peasant girl could never rise above her drudgeries; and she never dreamed of rising, for the members of the baronial family were looked up to as superior beings.
It had redeeming features in the life of the baronial family.
The sale of benefices was one great source of royal andbaronial revenues.
But they were not cold and hard and cruel, likebaronial lords.
In the baronial castle, however, they were necessary to existence.
The lady of a baronial hall deemed it an insult to be addressed in the language of gallantry, except in that vague and poetic sense in which every knight selected some lady as the object of his dutiful devotion.
He was simply made to participate in baronial quarrels; and as these quarrels were frequent, his life was not altogether peaceful.
Their cornfields were trodden down by the baronial hunters; they were compelled even to grind their corn in the landlord's mill, and bake their bread in his oven.
The perpetual strife of the baronial lords was to increase their domains.
We shall then see the reappearance of feudalism in an inverse order, founded on mercantile leagues and answering to the baronial leagues of the middle ages.
Much of the castle stands as he rebuilt it after various misfortunes in baronial and other wars, but the front as it looks down on Farnham is less severe.
To speculate as to who Baron Swasso may have been is agreeable: but the baronial hall could not save Epsom.
But the real strength of the king was not derived from the baronial elements.
As soon as it was convenient, the war was reopened, the baronial alliance against the king of France still standing, and Baldwin of Flanders joining in the attack.
And the baronial plantation which had been the mark of his grandeur before the war was now the millstone of his doom.
It merely substituted a baronial oligarchy for the divine-right rule of one man, King John.
In addition to the picturesque civic retreats already alluded to, as giving so much animation to the native scenery, the neighbourhood is embellished with the baronial seats of the Marquess of Anglesey, Lord Boston, and Lord Newborough.
No stranger should neglect to visit Penrhyn Castle, one of the finest baronial mansions in Europe.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "baronial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: grand; imposing; noble; princely; royal
