Marquess

That’s assuming we still want to ‘play nice,’ and continue to engage in Marquess of Queensberry-rules, Geneva Convention-happy warfare.

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I had just come down from Oxford, and was very much at a loose end when she learned unexpectedly that the Duke of Vanburgh was in need of a tutor to take his grandson and heir abroad — a youth called the Marquess of Stayle, eighteen years old.

The Complete Stories Waugh, Evelyn 1998

We spend part of each year in London, where the Marquess is our great friend.

The Yeoman Adventurer George W. Gough

The Marquess was a statesman who took few chances.

Figures of Earth James Branch Cabell 1918

The wife of a Marquess is a “Marchioness”; her style corresponds with that of her husband, and her coronet is the same.

The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844

Even in the duration of his minority, he had the superiority over the young Duke, for the Marquess was a posthumous son.

The Young Duke Benjamin Disraeli 1842

The Marquess was a man who always found out everything, and enjoyed the secret.

Coningsby Benjamin Disraeli 1842

For the Marquess was the lay impropriator; the living was therefore but a very poor vicarage, below the acceptance of a Vipont or a Vipont's tutor, sure to go to a worthy man forced to live in strict retirement.

What Will He Do with It? — Volume 05 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

For the Marquess was the lay impropriator; the living was therefore but a very poor vicarage, below the acceptance of a Vipont or

What Will He Do with It? — Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

The Marquess was the falsest, the most fickle, the most pusillanimous, of mankind.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829