Word: ducal
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...From the Roman amphitheater and the ducal palace reinforcements rushed into the town whenever needed...
...young male panther" sets the superscale that marks the whole work for good and bad. And in his eager use of sentimental aspects of the Scottish border novel, Allen is capable of sinking to turgid depths, of causing a betrayed girl to cry out passionately against her ducal seducer...
...Cowes, during a ball aboard a British cruiser one August night in the 1870s, the future Lord Randolph Churchill met three American girls named Jerome and promptly told a friend that he intended to marry "the dark one." Next day he proposed and was accepted. To his ducal father's natural question young Churchill replied: "Mr. Jerome is a gentleman who is obliged to live in New York to look after his business. I do not know what...
Military Manners. Admirer of engineers and military life, big (6 ft. 4 in.) McCormick, who still bears himself with parade-ground erectness, is as inelastic in ducal personal routines and crotchets as in his editing. As for years past he still rises regularly not later than 8:30, goes break-fastless to ride or tramp over his 800-acre estate at Wheaton, 45 minutes from Chicago. Having lost a blaring Tribune campaign to put Chicago on Eastern Standard Time the year round, he runs his estate on E.S.T. nevertheless. When his wife Amie, a capable portrait painter, died two years...
...arachnid, the Duke still hankered after peace. Succeeding to the title (and an estate valued for death duties at $18,600,000), he continued his propagandizing. As a gesture against the "militarism" of the Church of England, last winter he stopped paying $1,280 a year to support the ducal church on his estate in Bedfordshire and the rents of two neighboring vicarages. He also refused to donate the iron railings of his London properties for scrap iron to be made into tanks...