It is equally plain, that the supposing of it to be intended to represent the greatest of the dukes who swayed the Norman sceptre, is by no means a fiction of the present day.
They had a great many uncles and aunts, for their mother had five sisters all married to dukes and earls, and she had brothers as well.
What God shall tell me all the woe, what God the song shall win 500 Of shifting death and Dukes undone, and all those many dead, By Turnus and by him of Troy about the fight-field spread?
So to the dukes of men he shows how peace hath evil end, And on Latinus biddeth them in weed of war to wend; That they may save their Italy, and thrust the foemen forth.
At last the Trojan dukes of men, Mnestheus, Serestus fierce, Draw to a head when all this death is borne unto their ears, And see their folk all scattering wide, the foe amidst them see.
So many chosen dukes of men in thrice ten keels they sail, And cut with brass the meads of brine for Troy and its avail.
We seek Evander: go ye forth and tell him this, and say That chosen dukes of Troy are come for plighted troth to pray.
But wondrous to Rutulian king and dukes of Italy That seemed, until they look about, and lo, the keels they see Turned shoreward; yea, a sea of ships onsetting toward the shore.
The Phrygian folk who in the fair stream wait, Burn thou theirdukes of men with fire!
There have been four dukes of Bavaria emperors, five of the house of Luxemburg, three of the old Bohemian royal house, &c.
In this spirit of devotion it has been established that the kings of France are canons of Strasburg, Lyons, and some other places; as in the former place the emperors, in the latter the dukes of Burgundy, were before them.
St. Ulric or Udalric was son of count Hucbald, and of Thietberga, daughter of Burchard, one of the first dukes of Higher Germany.
From this time the Normans became dukes of Calabria, and counts and dukes of Apulia.
The young Grand-Dukes who visited the Gardens generally contented themselves with skating around the lake at not too violent a speed.
Two Dukesof Gloucester, of the blood royal, were assassinated in prison,--one in the reign of Richard II.
Illustration: An Illumination by Gheerhardt David of Bruges, 1498; St. Barbara] Bruges possesses another museum of great interest which dates from the days of the last Dukes of Burgundy.
No longer was Ghent in the proud position she had occupied under the Counts of Flanders and the first Dukes of Burgundy--the premier city of the realm and a foe to be respected and even feared.
During the next half century the civil authority over the city became a veritable shuttlecock of politics and war, shifting back and forth between the Dukes of Brabant and the Counts of Flanders.
The early Dukes greatly extended the commercial rights and privileges of the town, Henry III granting a charter that allowed its citizens to hold bread and meat markets and trade in corn and cloth.
Here the Counts, and their successors, the Dukes of Burgundy, held many of their great banquets and state functions of various kinds.
At Septsaux the garrison fled and the people welcomed their king, while the Dukes of Lorraine and Bar came to join him with a heavy force.
Among these cares he forgot not his dear Madame Guyon; he had already vaunted her to the two Dukes and to Madame de Maintenon.
He laughed very freely at the foreign princes; and always called the Dukeswith whom he was familiar, "Your Ducal Highness," in ridicule of the sham Highnesses.
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Some thought that a dispute which the Dukes had had with the Parliament, concerning one of its usurpations, was now to be settled in our favour.
But the King merely said that the Dukes ought to have presented themselves and taken hold of the cloth.
The communion received and the oblation taken some moments afterwards, the King remained a little while in the same place, then returned to his own, followed by the two Dukes and the captain of the guards, who took theirs.
Foremost among these privileges was that of taking precedence of all dukes whose title did not go back so far as that year.
Myself and the otherDukes seated ourselves in court to hear the proceedings.
Accordingly he took away from him the duchy of Saxony, and gave it to the heir of the old dukes in the female line.
The Billung line of Saxon dukes had become extinct in 1106, and Henry V had given the ducal name to Lothair, who succeeded him as Emperor, and who as Duke aimed at building up a strong dominion in north-eastern Germany.
He acted in conjunction with Albert the Bear, a descendant in the female line of the Billung dukes and Margrave of the Northmark, who himself founded bishoprics among his immediate neighbours the Wiltzes.
In some countries his titles descend in this way to all his descendants; all the children of a Duke, for instance, are Dukes and Duchesses.
This process of dismemberment, where a nominal supremacy is still kept by the original Sovereign, must be distinguished from that of falling back upon Dukes or Ealdormen after a period of kingly rule.
Well, they became Grand-Dukes as Richelieu became a minister.
Why, have you so much as studied the means by which simple merchants like the Medicis became Grand Dukes of Tuscany?
The Dukes of Burgundy and Brittany, as well as several Norman noblemen, had specious titles.
Aldermen were created for life; they were then frequently made hereditary; some were vested with a power over others; and at this period we begin to hear of dukes who governed over several shires, and had many aldermen subject to them.
Neither of these vessels were more powerful than our original Dreadnought class and they were not to be compared with our King George V’s, Orions or Iron Dukes and still less with our Queen Elizabeths.
My dear, you might as well hope we should be dukes and duchesses.
No doubt, dear, if dukes went about the world, like King Cophetua, on the look out for beggar-maids.
The dukes and ministers by-gone Respond not to my prayer and moan.
In their place arose dukes and princes, who substituted the intrigues of policy for popular passions, and sometimes made it their ambition to favour the revival of arts and letters, the true glory of Italy.
Two centuries later, the Counts of Louvain, then occupying most of Brabant, obtained a permanent hold of Lower Lorraine, and began to call themselves Dukes of Brabant.
The château, which formerly belonged to the Dukes of Uzès, recognised by virtue of the extent of their domains as premiers pairs de France, was not originally erected in close proximity to any such formidable precipice.
The circumstance of the Archbishops of Reims being dukes and peers as well as primates of the capital of the Champagne accounts for their preference for a fortified place of residence at this turbulent epoch.
Lord Richard, Sir Thomas Vaughan, and Sir Richard Hawte, were arrested, and with Lord Rivers sent prisoners to Pomfret, while the dukes conducted the king by easy stages to London.
Earl Rivers remained at Northampton, where he was cajoled by the two dukes till the time of rest, when the gates of the inn were suddenly locked, and the earl made prisoner.
The author is also credited withDukes and Dejeuners, Marchionesses and Milliners, etc.
They do not speak as if Dukes and Earls were some strange superior kind of beings; their manner is that of men accustomed to and undazzled by Earls, writing for readers who do not care whether the hero is a lord or a commoner.
Perhaps the modern realism has made novelists desert the world whereDukes and Dowagers abound.
It was originally a hunting-lodge of thedukes of Gelderland, but in its present form dates chiefly from the time of the Stadtholder William III.
In the Cathedral of Saint Bénigne, who seems to be the patron saint of Dijon, are the remains of the great Dukes of Burgundy, although their magnificent tombs are in the museum.
The present Hôtel de Ville was once the palace of the Dukes of Burgundy.
Here, with angels at their heads and lions couchant at their feet, the effigies of these Dukes of Valois rest, surrounded by a wealth of sculpture and decoration almost unequalled.
Dukes of Brittany were not men to be trifled with!
It seems as if the victims of Amboise were in a measure avenged; the Dukes of Guise, father and son, met with the same sad fate, and at the time of the assassination of Le Balfré Queen Catherine lay dying in the room below.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dukes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
