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Example sentences for "ducal"

Lexicographically close words:
dubium; duble; dubs; duc; ducados; ducally; ducat; ducates; ducation; ducats
  1. In 1618 Sir William Cavendish, son of the famous Bess of Hardwick, was given the same title, which is still among the peerage honours of the ducal house descending from him.

  2. Crabbe continued his duties as ducal chaplain, being in the main a non-resident priest so far as his Dorsetshire parishes were concerned.

  3. Cleves, Schwarzburg, Cilli and Savoy; they were entitled to the ducal coronet.

  4. Farnese is in Piacenza already, and the Pope will sway the College to give his bastard the ducal crown.

  5. I plagued my mind with this matter of Cosimo's suit, thinking that I saw the ultimate intent--to bring Pagliano under the ducal sway by rendering master of it one who was devoted to Farnese.

  6. It fell flat presently, showing the ducal arms and the inscription of which the abbreviation PLAC was a part.

  7. Basrelief from one of the Inner Doors of the Ducal Palace.

  8. Interior Court of the Ducal Palace of Venice, with Giant's Stair.

  9. He is as drunk as a man can be, and the expression of drunkenness given with deliberate and intense skill, as on the angle of the Ducal Palace at Venice.

  10. Part of the front of the Ducal Palace, Venice.

  11. The Ducal Palace traceries are shown in the 'Stones of Venice' (vol.

  12. Angle of the Ducal Palace, looking Seaward from the Piazzetta.

  13. The letter with which Eugene replied to the proposition of the allies, tendering him the ducal crown of Genoa, had won for Josephine's son the love and esteem of the czar for all time.

  14. I present you with this token in commemoration of the day on which you bring my daughter the ducal crown, in order that it may remind you of mother and daughter alike--of the dethroned empress and of the dethroned queen.

  15. Here also Wieland resided for many years; and in the vaults of the ducal chapel the ashes of Schiller repose by those of Goethe, who for more than half a century assisted in the councils, and adorned the court of Weimar.

  16. You shall exchange your cap and bells for a ducal coronet, châteaux jewels, honours, wealth in what form you will shall be yours.

  17. He served Alessandro too in Florence, and boasts of the intimacy which he enjoyed in the ducal household.

  18. In the very tempest of his wrath, he felt that the blow belonged to strike on that bold head would shiver his ducal throne to the dust.

  19. The leading States in this Roman Catholic federation were Austria and Bavaria, and so long as Duke George lived, Ducal Saxony in middle Germany.

  20. Chance brought him in contact with Otto von Pack, the steward of the Chancery of Ducal Saxony, who, on being questioned, admitted that the suspicions of Philip were correct, and promised to procure a copy of the treaty.

  21. In the same year the new Elector of Brandenburg also came over to the Evangelical side amid the rejoicings of his people; and the two great Romanist States of North Germany, Electoral Brandenburg and Ducal Saxony, became Protestant.

  22. The "Red Cross" had been set up in Zerbst in Ducal Saxony a few miles to the west, and at Jueterbogk in the territory of Magdeburg a few miles to the east of Wittenberg, and people had gone from the town to buy the Indulgence.

  23. We have the same madness in our brains; we have even a Roman megalomania, but the effect of it in Chicago or Pittsburg or Philadelphia or New York has not yet got beyond a ducal or a princely son-in-law.

  24. The director of the Grand Ducal Theater at the time was one Wolfgang von Goethe.

  25. I shall let Maretzek tell the story presently, pausing now to interject an anecdote which fell under my notice some years ago while I was turning over the records of the Grand Ducal Theater at Weimar.

  26. This has given his art a rather bad name, but judged by his best works in the Ducal Palace and the Academy at Venice, he will not be found lacking.

  27. He was medallist and painter both, worked with Gentile da Fabriano in the Ducal Palace at Venice and elsewhere, and his art seems to have an affinity with that of his companion.

  28. Gentile da Fabriano, who was at Venice about 1420, painting in the Ducal Palace with Pisano as his assistant, may have brought this about.

  29. End of the first ducal house of Burgundy.

  30. With this object in view, Gessler caused a pole, surmounted with the ducal cap of Austria, to be set up in the market-place at Altorf, before which emblem of authority he ordered every man to uncover and do reverence as he passed.

  31. These surprised one of the ducal manors, in which were five hundred French, and then took Courtrai, occupying the town, but not the castle.

  32. Brother tramps passed me from time to time with a cheerful salutation, and at three o’clock I passed within the new brick walls of Ludwigslust; a town dignified as a pleasure seat with a military garrison, a ducal palace, and an English park.

  33. On tramp towards the South, we rested on the Sunday in Schwerin, the capital of Mecklenburg; but there was public mourning in the city for a death in the ducal family, and the usual Sunday festivities were forbidden.

  34. He and the hero followed in the tramp steamer to England, where he kept friend Thomas at his daddy's ducal castle until Vievie made mamma start home with her.

  35. I can see myself parading around your ancestral stone-heap with your ducal dad!

  36. His wife and daughter were courted by the highest nobility, and their alliance sought by the heirs of ducal and princely houses.

  37. The settlement became a centre of interest to the whole ducal family.

  38. After the death of the abbess Christine the settlement of Gandersheim drifts for a time into the background; Quedlinburg, founded by Heinrich I at the instigation of his wife Mathilde, takes its place in ducal and royal favour.

  39. Accordingly I promised to employ him upon the occasion of the first death or marriage which should take place in a ducal family.

  40. The spirit of noble rivalry, too, was awakened in the Ducal bosom.

  41. All the members of the ducal household were clothed in velvet.

  42. He accordingly directed the Saint's head, in its setting of silver and precious stones, to be brought from the Dominican church to his lodging in the Grand-ducal palace.

  43. There was a horde of savage Germans encamped in the Piazza, and they filled the Ducal Palace and the Academy with their uproar.

  44. Fortunately, however, we can turn to the Ducal Palace, where everything is so brilliant and splendid that the poor dusky Tintoret is lifted in spite of himself into the concert.

  45. The months of April and May of the year 1881 were not, as a general thing, a favourable season for visiting the Ducal Palace and the Academy.

  46. Though raised to ducal rank he never lost his sense of proportion, and delighted to give his memories of "when I was sergeant" to his friends and to the officers of his staff.

  47. Well, as you will; but believe me, you would have an easier place as the grand ducal dwarf.

  48. Mimi, the daughter of the great Weatherbold, would be killed for the ducal table.

  49. When he succeeded the latter in the ducal chair, the struggle between Bertarit and Godebert was going on, and the new Duke of Benevento declared in favor of the latter, who was his personal friend.

  50. It was much to regain his ducal station; it was more to remain true to the fugitive who had trusted and aided him in his need.

  51. The Empress Maria Louisa lives here in the Ducal Palace, which is a spacious but ornamental edifice.

  52. On this piazza stands also the Ducal Palace; the principal cafés and the most splendid shops are in the same piazza, which forms the morning lounge of Milan.

  53. In fact, the Ducal Palace is built in the Gothic taste and resembles a Gothic fortress, having round towers at each angle.

  54. It is a large and handsome city, the Ducal Palace is striking and in the Cathedral is presented the famous bucket which gave rise to the poem of Tassoni called La Secchia rapita.

  55. I entered Milan by the gate which leads direct to the esplanade between the citadel and the city, and drove to the Pension Suisse, which is in a street close to the Cathedral and Ducal palace.

  56. The principal churches are: first, the Cathedral, which is not far from the Ducal Palace; it is richly ornamented and incrusted with black marble; the church of the Annunziata and that of St Sire.

  57. The king intended to follow her thither in a few days, for he was detained in Berlin by state affairs; they were then to go with her family to the ducal country-seat of Hohenzieritz, and thence to return to Berlin.

  58. Lefebvre heard the ducal title this time, and looked bewildered at the emperor, whose anger he still feared.

  59. Napoleon greeted the ducal couple with his most winning smile.


  60. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ducal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.