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  • King of Denmark, whose sister Ann was King James's consort: the creation of a new order called Baronets, next to a Baron, and made hereditary: the fall of Lord Chancellor Bacon, and of Sir Walter

    A Museum for Young Gentlemen and Ladies Or, a Private Tutor for Little Masters and Misses

  • I spent chasing down Fun and Useful Facts about Baronets.

    Baronets, Bad and Otherwise deliasherman 2010

  • Thus the Murgatroyds are Baronets of Ruddigore, but they don't take Ruddigore as a surname or in place of a surname, as a nobleman would do or as some baronets do.

    Baronets, Bad and Otherwise deliasherman 2010

  • I longed for Patience, for The Sorcerer, and above all, for Ruddigore, because I have an unabashed fondness for melodrama and Bad Baronets and talking portraits, and Ellen kept quoting bits of it.

    Ruddigore deliasherman 2010

  • We saw it again when we went to visit Ellen's nephews at Camp Interlochen, with a chorus of upwards of 30 Professional Bridesmaids and Bucks and Blades and several centuries worth of Bad Baronets.

    Ruddigore deliasherman 2010

  • To use another example, DUNE by Frank Herbert is science fiction, even though the main characters, witches and messiahs, have magic powers, and Baronets and Ducal heirs fight with sword and dagger.

    MIND MELD: Today's SF Authors Define Science Fiction (Part 2) 2008

  • Baronets, and Colonels and Captains, in every part of the habitable globe.

    Sketches by Boz 2007

  • Baronets, as if those dignitaries were our familiar friends.

    The Book of Snobs 2006

  • Baronets with twelve thousand a-year cannot be married off the hooks, as may be done with ordinary mortals.

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • But after all there is something shocking about a royal couple who are literally kept by their subjects, who get the big Jewish financiers to foot all the bills they ought to pay themselves, and create them Baronets in return.

    The Guermantes Way 2003

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