If she had doubted her power this action set the doubt at rest, as the haughtiest nature she had known confessed it by a bittersweet complaint.
Pauline rose with her haughtiest mien, and the brief command, "Take me to Manuel.
Of the Frangipani, the haughtiest signors were no more; and Luca, the dastard head of the Savelli, had long since saved himself by flight.
A handful of armed men are in your walls: will ye who chased from your gates the haughtiest knights--the most practised battle-men of Rome, succumb now to one hundred and fifty hirelings and strangers?
Such for months had been the abode of the conqueror of the haughtiest Barons, and the luxurious dictator of the stateliest city of the world!
Perhaps not as far as arrogance is concerned," growled the Vicomte, "he is the haughtiest human being I ever came across.
Mother and son, the twohaughtiest of the whole haughty crowd!
The truth is, that I don't believe the haughtiest duke in the three kingdoms is really so proud as your plain English rural peasant, nor half so hard to propitiate and deal with when his sense of dignity is ruffled.
But is it a crime in them, or in their parents, if their talents have lifted them into such rank or renown as the haughtiest duke might envy?
His alliance with the haughtiest of the old sovereign houses gave deep offence indeed to that great party in France, who, though willing to submit to a Dictator, still loathed the name of hereditary monarchy.
Despite the newness of his honours, even the haughtiest of the ancient nobles bore him no grudge, for his demeanour was at once modest and manly.
Count sternly; 'that lady is one before whom the haughtiest noble is proud to lay his homage.
In the south, Raymond of Toulouse, haughtiest lord in France, whom more lances followed than followed even the king, set forth for Palestine, determined there to leave his bones.
But the haughtiest of pontiffs was seen to yield as soon as he felt the mail-clad hand of the Conqueror, and to shrink unresistingly before it.
Crowds gathered everywhere to behold the man who had dared to bid defiance to the terrors of that spiritual power before which the haughtiest monarchs had trembled.
The Catholics, with no less display of pomp and power, for their league embraced many of the haughtiest sovereigns in Europe, met at Wurtzburg.
The old Lion flung back his silvery mane with his haughtiest imperiousness.
Waldemar bowed himself out with all his haughtiest high-breeding; he knew Valerie would act for herself, but the insult cut him to the quick.
She laughed, a little contemptuously, and glanced at me with her haughtiest air; and on my life, much as it provoked one, nothing became her better.
Illustration: "Half a dozen young beauties had taken possession--girls of the haughtiest blood in Britain.
Half a dozen young beauties had taken possession before her, with chatter and laughter--slender Roman girls, of the haughtiest blood in Britain.
That it could be caused by any interest felt for a Chasseur d'Afrique by the haughtiest lady in all Europe would have been too preposterous and too insulting a supposition for it ever to occur to him.
The Seraph's majesty of haughtiest amaze and scorn blazed from his azure eyes on the man who dared say this thing to him.
The dog that was the rightful bloodhound in that show was the proudest and haughtiest dog I ever met, and he had his downfall.
But the proudest and haughtiestof all was the bloodhound that owned that Uncle Tom show--leastways, he acted as if he owned it.
I am ze Baron von Blitzenberg, bot zere vas no carriage at ze station,” he informed the butler in his haughtiest tones.
But in his presence and mien there was something, which, in thehaughtiest conclave of Christian chivalry, would have seemed to tower and command.
If thou perish, if thou art lost to us, thou, the last daughter of the house of Issachar, then the haughtiestfamily of God's great people is extinct.
And if thy pride, sweet maiden, deafen thee to the voice of nature, learn that the haughtiest dames of Spain would bend, in envious court, to the beloved of their future king.
You left our South one gory burial ground; But love, more potent than your haughtiest anger, Subdues the souls which hate could only wound!
Some of the noblest sons of Albion and Erin's Isle have served in its ranks, and the haughtiest sons of Adam's race have had to bow before them, and give up the palm to the matchless Fusiliers.
Some of the most desperate deeds have been performed in all ages by our thin red line, and the proudest and haughtiest of Adam's race have had to give up the palm to our matchless Infantry.
They are men, too, of all parties and all factions; the Syllæ, the proudest and haughtiest aristocrats of Rome.
But I remember the Marquis de Nipernois a haughty noble in the haughtiest court of Europe; I have see that very Marquis receiving royalty on the steps of his own chateau, and have witnessed his days of greatness and grandeur.
Our haughtiest nobility--the proudest duke in the land--knows well what his alliance with a plebeian order has done for him.
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