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Our directions for travellers reflect the change from the typical Elizabethan courtier,
English Travellers of the Renaissance Clare Howard
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"May I ask," said he, with the charming manners of the courtier,
The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall
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Napoleon had tried (1810) to created another diocese under that name, inclusive of the territory known as the Bouches du Rhin, and had even obtained a titular for the new see in the person of the imperial courtier,
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913
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Once upon a time there lived a soldier, a gentleman born, a courtier,
Man on the Box Harold MacGrath 1901
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In the following year (A.D. 3), the Empress having died, a courtier,
A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Dairoku Kikuchi 1886
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Equally unnatural, and obviously invented, is the fact that all through the tragedy Lear does not recognize his old courtier,
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. VIII (of X) - Continental Europe II. Various 1885
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However, Nan disliked the notion very much, and showed it so plainly in her face that the Queen exclaimed: 'You are no courtier,
Stray Pearls Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Hearing of the beauty of this lady, he despatched his favourite courtier,
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The great drama of existence, with its solemn shifts of scenery and its impending grandeur, is but a pantomime to him; and he a thoughtless epicurean, a grinning courtier,
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The passion of ambition, for instance, is the same in a courtier,
Letters to His Son on the Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman, 1746-47 Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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