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Example sentences for "court favour"

  • He had in some degree compromised popularity by attaching himself to me from the commencement of my court favour, and the reception he bestowed on me at Chantilly had completed his disgrace in the eyes of nobility.

  • Even in the height of court favour, this great man was obnoxious to the people.

  • Still more probably he relied on the protection of court favour.

  • His rivals in court favour strove to better his bidding for the sovereign's good graces by boldly predicting twins.

  • Hence orthodox piety was one of the surest roads to court favour.

  • Master Edward Poins, a discreet, timeserving young gentleman, continued in the enjoyment of court favour, and received the dignity of knighthood on the very day of his majesty's coronation.

  • He still contemplated the possibility of his restoration to Court favour.

  • It must not be supposed that he had relinquished all hope of restoration to court favour--what deposed favourite ever did?

  • This is a new light on the mystery of our knight's repeated failures in the attempt to rise in court favour.

  • Marlborough had set his face against his promotion, and he owed his rise entirely to Court favour, for he was brother of Abigail Hill (Lady Masham), now the ruling favourite of Queen Anne.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    called because; court bouillon; court card; court circles; court etiquette; court favour; court leet; court order; court painter; courteous knight; courtly love; duty and; eleventh century; for its; found myself; good result; grey hair; hour earlier; kinetic energy; live long; play cards; remember aright; sacred right; standing there; then glanced; told myself