grandee

• “Millionaire and pauper, titled grandee and weeping immigrant, Ismay, the head of the White Star Company, and Jack Jones from the stoke hole were surrounded instantly.”

  Sinking of the Titanic and Great Sea Disasters

• “It did happen by accident that I had to go to the house of a man whom perhaps you would call a grandee, and to meet grandees there.”

  Phineas Finn

• “Perhaps he'll enjoy one day being of kafir status. .though of course being a 'grandee' he may expect special treatment and a little rule bending ..”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “a grandee is a more harmless animal by far than an Irish Papist.”

  The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2

• “Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage”

  A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era

• “Lord Mandelson wants to be seen as Labour 'grandee”

  BBC News - Home

• “Sir Richard Sykes, the Huddersfield-born City grandee, is in a typically frank mood after his unceremonious ousting from Eurasian Natural Resources Corporation ENRC, just three years after the obscure Kazakh mining group hired him to confer credibility on the run-up to its London flotation.”

  The Guardian: Sir Richard Sykes: voted out, but not down

• “Every younger son of a would-be grandee wanted a commission.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “Long before that, in 1759 Washington took up the life he had wanted all along as a Virginia grandee.”

  Simon & Schuster: George Washington’s First War

• “• And we note that the full-page ad castigating David Cameron and his coalition for "morally untenable" arms sales to repressive regimes was signed by Lib Dem grandee Lord Steel of Aikwood.”

  The Guardian: Hugh Muir's diary

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