aristocrat

• If Dee's identification was correct, Kelley knew, then the aristocrat was the Earl of Oxford—but it was his turn now to keep his face in the shadows. —  Asimov'sSF,July2008
• Slowly and reluctantly, the Baltimorean abandoned his cherished ideal of the British aristocrat--a covert Caligula, with all modern improvements--varying the monotony of orgies with interludes of murder and rapine; the instrument of these pleasant vices being always ready in the shape of a Frankenstein-monster, whose mission it is to tyrannize perpetually over the guilty lordling or lady whose secret he holds; doing a steady trade of two assassinations or abductions weekly; and utterly inviolable by cord, shot, or steel, up to the final blue-fire tableau of the dreary drama. —  Border and Bastille
• As an Irishman he is an aristocrat, as a Calvinist he is a soul apart; he drew the breath of his nostrils from a land of fallen principalities and proud gentility, and the breath of his spirit from a creed which made a wall of crystal around the elect. —  George Bernard Shaw
• Nor could it be a want of special nightclothes; he had won his election over a nightshirt aristocrat, as being not too pampered to sleep, like the sons of toil, in the shirt he had worn all day and would wear again to-morrow. —  Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi
• Then for the first time in English history the world saw the plebeian pitted against the aristocrat, and the strife which ensued involved not so much the question of kingly prerogative and the 'divine right' of monarchs, as the pent-up feuds of ages--feuds arising from the most flagrant injustice and wrong on the one hand and forced submission on the other. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy

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