Grandees

“Presently I will name thee my successor and make thee my heir apparent, and I will call the Grandees of mine Empire to witness thereto.”

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

They had three times lost their quallifying Law, and particularly they observ'd the Grandees were the Men that threw it out, and notwithstanding the Plot of the Tackers, as they call'd them, who were as I noted, observ'd to be in Conjunction with the Crolians, yet the Law always past the Feathers, but still the Grandees quasht it.

The Consolidator or, Memoirs of Sundry Transactions from the World in the Moon Daniel Defoe 1696

They should have been called the Grandees’ Boothill Crips.

Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

They should have been called the Grandees’ Boothill Crips.

Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

They should have been called the Grandees’ Boothill Crips.

Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

They should have been called the Grandees’ Boothill Crips.

Blue Rage, Black Redemption Stanley Tookie Williams 2007

"Grandees," cried Acota, "as the chief Brahmin has already asserted, and as you have agreed, in that you behold the finger of Heaven, which ever punishes hypocrisy, cruelty, and injustice;" and the chief Brahmin fell down in a fit, and was carried out, with his unfortunate son Mezrimbi.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

"Grandees," cried Acota, "as the chief brahmin has already asserted, and as you have agreed, in that you behold the finger of Heaven, which ever punishes hypocrisy, cruelty, and injustice;" and the chief brahmin fell down in a fit, and was carried out, with his unfortunate son Mezrimbi.

The Pacha of Many Tales Frederick Marryat 1820

I will call the Grandees of mine Empire to witness thereto. "

Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

Grandees of high culture have been wheeled out by all of them, notably Derry's Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, but mass involvement played a larger part in the detail of the bids.

Derry celebrates culture capital success 2010