Grand-Duke

The most eminent type of this class of men was Magliabecchi, librarian to the Grand-Duke of Tuscany, who could direct you to any book in any part of the world, with the precision with which the metropolitan policeman directs you to St Paul's or Piccadilly.

The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author John Hill Burton

The Grand-Duke sat motionless with his head in his hands.

The Black Cross Olive M. Briggs

Ivan, without speaking, led the way back to dead Michael's inner room, into which the Grand-Duke preceded him, his eyes falling at once upon the litter on the floor.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

And since it was unquestionably madame who ruled the family, young Mademoiselle Nathalie, despite her remarkable eyes, her curling black hair and her rose-leaf skin, came to spend her babyhood in the care of the Dravikine serfs; until at the age of six she talked like a kitchen-maid, and had the manners of a stable-boy -- or a Grand-Duke.

The Genius Margaret Horton Potter

The island now belongs, with Elba, to the Grand-Duke of Tuscany.

Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition. Thomas Forester

Holland, and the Grand-Duke of Tuscany, were not under heavy obligations to Napoleon, and could thus afford to give to his family the protection denied them by those monarchs who believed themselves bound to redeem their former servility.

Complete Project Gutenberg Collection of Memoirs of Napoleon Various

Kaliaiev executed the death sentence which had been passed upon the ruthless Governor-General of Moscow, the Grand-Duke Serghei Alexandrovich.

Bolshevism The Enemy of Political and Industrial Democracy John Spargo 1921

A second adventure in the year 1863, when a French army had tried to force an Austrian Grand-Duke by the name of Maximilian upon the Mexican people as their Emperor, had come to a disastrous end as soon as the American Civil War had been won by the North.

The Story of Mankind 1921

And the aged unvenerable Grand-Duke of Saxe-Kesselberg died too in the same March; and afterward his other grandson, Prince Augustus, reigned in the merry old debauchee's stead.

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

I have not the least desire to be Grand-Duke of Saxe-Kesselberg.

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918