Marchese

But once a "marchese," if she was very charitable, and did something in the way of a public work, the Holy ❋ Unknown (1881)

There was nothing for it but to find some snug little marquisate -- "marchese" sounded very well, though one could not be called ❋ Unknown (1881)

It was the elder marchese who dreamed of creating a wine like the great Bordeaux reds he loved ... but on the Maremma coast, in an area around Bolgheri previously known for bottling occasionally passable rosé. ❋ Richard Nalley (2010)

The marchese (marquis) would know; he's related to most of it. ❋ Richard Nalley (2010)

The Marquis, 69-years-old, tall, with ramrod-straight posture and a shock of white hair, often dresses in elegant tweeds and corduroy; employees address him by his nobleman's title, marchese ❋ Unknown (2008)

This reserve is in some measure excusable among a people who are extremely ignorant of foreign customs, and who know that in their own country, every person, even the most insignificant, who has any pretensions to family, either inherits, or assumes the title of principe, conte, or marchese. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We endeavored, however, to excuse the marchese by saying that he, a high-minded man, could not close his domain to such as wished to come to him, especially when they were people of importance, and we used every argument to defend him. ❋ Ferdinand Gregorovius (N/A)

"_Mon Dieu_," as the widow, pulling one side of her veil across her face, hid her over-crimson mouth, but in no way impeded her view, whilst Jill looked round hastily for a way of escape, but suddenly remembering the certain peril in the street decided, as she edged as far as possible from the marchese, to sit out the difficulties of the moment. ❋ Joan Conquest (N/A)

His Holiness, however, seemed displeased by our defense of the marchese. ❋ Ferdinand Gregorovius (N/A)

"The marchese, sometimes, and the canons of the Collegiate Church." ❋ Unknown (1924)

She did not appear at dinner; and afterward the marchese, his wife and Lavinia sat wrapped in a gloomy silence. ❋ Joseph Hergesheimer (1917)

LASTRE, Elogio del marchese Tanucci (Novelle letterarie fiorentine) (Florence, 1783); COLLETTA, Storia del regno di Napoli dal 1785 al ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Among the other current feminine names for menstruation which he gives, some are purely fanciful; thus, the Italian women dignified the function with the title of "marchese magnifico;" German ladies, again, would use the locution, "I have had a letter," or would say that their cousin or aunt had arrived. ❋ Havelock Ellis (1899)

I incline to think the marchese was murdered actually inside the garden, and that he fell on his face where he stood, and was dragged behind the hydrangeas. ❋ Mary Cholmondeley (1892)

You have deprived the marchese of a possible mistress, and now you seem inclined to deprive me of an actual mistress. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

He thinks that I know too much about him, and has told the marchese that I am here. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

No term of the sort is by this time too hard for me to bear; and the marchese, no doubt, can take care of himself. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

Condoglia was a village on a spur of the mountains, the property, with the bodies and souls of its inhabitants, of a great lord, a marchese. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)

"You had no quarrel with the marchese, I presume?" said the duke significantly. ❋ Mary Cholmondeley (1892)

Nevertheless, I clearly know two things: one, that you did not murder the marchese, and the other, that there was nothing wrong between you and my wife. ❋ Mary Cholmondeley (1892)