The highest privilege of a grandee is that of covering his head before the king.
I am good with my fists, but it would be beneath the dignity of a grandee of Spain to measure fists with a Flemish burgher.
Don Ramon felt that if only Mark van Rycke could have been there, all the wounds which that young malapert had dared to inflict upon the pride of a Spanish grandee would forthwith be healed.
We owe a great deal to this old-time grandee for the glimpses his writings give us of colonial life in the South during the generation just preceding that of Washington.
The hauteur of the grandee on his own ground was clearly marked in it, and Robert could not help fancying that towards himself there had even been something more.
The squire in his most rough-and-tumble days at Berlin had always felt himself the grandee as well as the student.
ARCOS (Comte d'), a Spanish grandee living in the Peninsula at the time of the expedition of Napoleon I.
Not to a man like you, who has a grandee for a father, and a mother rolling in wealth.
Would I be purchased by some grandee as a new ornament for his harem, or was I destined to fall into the hands of a brutal master, to be used as a household drudge for the execution of bitter and revolting tasks?
I know not what was the name of the grandee in the coach along with the king.
So the Grandee Tsubura thrust the Prince to death with his sword, and forthwith killed himself by cutting off his own head.
Though a vile slave of a Grandee exerting his utmost strength in the fight can scarcely hope to conquer, yet must he die rather than desert a prince who, trusting in him, has entered into his house.
She told them of a certain grandee of Spain, living in Andalusia, of whom her father, lowly in birth but rich in fortune, was a vassal.
The proud Grandee was fully overwhelmed by the secret that he thought he had discovered.
Josefina was near the noble Grandee with her arms crossed, waiting for the benediction before going to bed.
Afraid of the complications that might arise, the wife of the Grandee put her quickly to bed, where she soon came to herself, but a serious fever immediately set in.
The pompous old Grandee paid no attention, and looked at the cards he held in his hand, whilst wrapped in his grey cloak with the red cross, he seemed to grow bigger and bigger before the frightened eyes of poor Josefina.
The Grandee replied immediately, and folding and retaining the letter, he said, with some effort to control his voice that trembled: "Nobody.
The noble Grandee was sitting in his chair with the cards in his hand.
The pompous old Grandee had not consented to this at first, but he at last conceded to the importunities of his wife.
A certain stranger meeting him in Altavilla with a few others asked him how theGrandee came to be paralysed.
The Grandee had paid little heed to these marks of favour and insinuating smiles of his wife.
The wife of the Grandee was standing before the glass arranging her hair.
The wife of the Grandee covered the distance between them with two steps, and fell upon her like a hungry tiger.
At thirty-four he was made, on account of his victory at Almanza, Grandee of Spain, and Chevalier of the Golden Fleece.
She sent Grillo, a Genoese noble, whom she has since made grandee of Spain, to thank the King for sending her the Duc de Saint-Aignan, and for the present he brought with him.
She was of the house of La Tremoille: her husband was chief of the house of Ursins, a grandee of Spain, and Prince of the Soglio.
As soon as my sons appeared, I called the younger and told him, to embrace the knees of the King who overwhelmed us with favours, and made him grandee of Spain with me.
He counted upon nothing less than being madegrandee of Spain, and would have obtained this favour but for his indiscretion.
He wished his eldest son to succeed to his English dukedom and his English estates; to make the second Duke and Peer of France, and the third Grandee of Spain.
The king was so pleased with the blind fiddler's speech that he immediately made him a Grandee of Spain, and acknowledged him as his son-in-law elect.
He may do for shaving poor priests and water-carriers; but he may not shave an abbot, nor an archbishop, still less a grandeeof Spain, who may sit before the king with his hat on.
The Eastern grandee rides not at the head or rear of his attendants, but in the midst of them.
At the door of Don Ygnacio's house I received them from him again, and being admitted as before by the don's gentleman-usher, I found my grandee awaiting me in a quivering expectancy.
The fourth boat contains three rowers, who possibly have the vessel of the grandee in tow.
Moreover, as grandee of Spain, your highness has a right to appear with covered head.
What do you say to the rank of colonel of horse, the title of Grandee of Spain, and the order of the Saint Esprit, without counting the field-marshal's baton in prospective?
