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  • You will, I am sure, remember her visit to His Holiness The Pope when she wore, as if she were Doña Cherie, the wife of a very grand Spanish Grandee, a fine black lace mantilla, parading herself as being at the very least, as Roman as the Pontiff himself.

    Cherie & Gordon Trash Smuggo's 'Legacy' 2008

  • You will, I am sure, remember her visit to His Holiness The Pope when she wore, as if she were Doña Cherie, the wife of a very grand Spanish Grandee, a fine black lace mantilla, parading herself as being at the very least, as Roman as the Pontiff himself.

    Archive 2008-05-18 2008

  • Including the GOP Grandee Leonore Annenberg, who went on to endorse John McCain. jo joe jim jim III

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • Including the GOP Grandee Leonore Annenberg, who went on to endorse John McCain. jo joe jim jim III

    Smoking Guns and the Morality of Parliamentary Privilege 2009

  • I rejoice to be the Son of a Scipio; it is for your Sake, that I glory to have the noble Asiaticus for my Brother; in fine, it is for your Sake, and in Hopes of your Favours, that I bear with human Life, and aim to be a Grandee of the World.

    Exilius 2008

  • Well, then, one of our stable-boys told us one evening that, going down to wash the horses in the river, he fancied he had seen the Spanish Grandee swimming some little way off, just like a fish.

    La Grand Breteche 2007

  • For many years after 1997 the BBC and its lreft wing co-travellers could always wheel out a Tory Grandee who's ego was bigger than their sense of loyalty to do damage to the party.

    Why I Tire of Portillo's Bitterness 2007

  • And when he wants to seduce, draws out a few bars in the classical style, and thinks he sounds like a Grandee of the court of Philip of Spain.

    Archive 2007-02-01 Geraldine Moorkens Byrne 2007

  • Well, then, one of our stable-boys told us one evening that, going down to wash the horses in the river, he fancied he had seen the Spanish Grandee swimming some little way off, just like a fish.

    La Grand Breteche 2007

  • CLINTON'S HOT TUB, BUSH'S HORSESHOE PITTo ease his postjog muscle aches and to speed his recovery from a 1997 knee surgery, Clinton also installed an $8,100 seven-seater Grandee model hot tub at the White House, a donation from the manufacturer (and one of the gifts that Clinton left behind when he departed in January).

    Making The White House A Home 2007

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