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  • Among its most thrilling early products is the Elector's porcelain menagerie, which was reinstalled earlier this year by starchitect Peter Marino, but in the most inappropriate way: Groups of animals are perched on glitzy gold "rocks" capped by brightly colored circus tents.

    A Storehouse of Riches Paula Weideger 2010

  • Distracted by his infatuation with the Elector's niece, the Princess Natalia (Sonya Cassidy, with an annoying, un-princess-like accent), the prince fails to hear his orders when briefed for the Battle of Fehrbellin (1675).

    Two German Revolutionary Plays Restaged 2010

  • Sonya Cassidy as the Elector's love-struck niece and Harry Hadden-Paton as an outspoken count also provide vigorous support.

    The Prince of Homburg 2010

  • What does emerge, though, is that the Elector's position -- that following orders is the essence of citizenship, the overarching duty the individual owes to the state -- is the spine of modern totalitarianism.

    Two German Revolutionary Plays Restaged 2010

  • I had a couple of extra Foundry SYW Prussian figures laying around, already primed, so they were drafted by the Elector's tailors to model some of the new uniforms.

    Hesse Seewald Army Uniforms Der Alte Fritz 2008

  • This Elector's brother must have been made a Bishop of Cologne and Munster without the production of proof of his nobility being demanded; for it is well known that the King Sobieski was a Polish nobleman, who married the daughter of Darquin, Captain of our late Monsieur's Swiss Guards.

    The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

  • None of the Elector's suite have visited me, and I presume they have been prevented.

    The Entire Memoirs of Louis XIV and the Regency d'Orleans, Charlotte -Elisabeth, duchesse 2001

  • Instead, I found myself immured in an upper room in a house in Livingston, telling the story once again, to one Colonel Gordon MacLeish Campbell, a Lowland Scot in command of one of the Elector's regiments.

    Dragonfly in Amber Gabaldon, Diana 1992

  • Orange, Stadtholder of Holland, to royal honors in England (see p. 624), stimulated the Elector's ambition.

    General History for Colleges and High Schools Philip Van Ness Myers

  • For sloe-juice, or Elector's fine old crusted Port.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, July 17, 1841 Various

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