Dukes

Examples

• The Grand Dukes go to that little place at the Condamine. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Who knows; we are but mortal, even marquises and dukes are but mortal. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• By the way, that last letter of the Dukes--was it found in the boy's room after he was gone? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• An Italian family ruled as Dukes of Naxos, another line governed Seriphos, but those potentates were somewhere about the fifteenth century. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• They were rather on the level of the great land-owning dukes and peers of France and England. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What was happening to the dukes, princes, and kings of the old dispensation during this age of change? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Others were parts of kingdoms, or even the capitals of dukes or kings. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At last we arrived and were received at the first entrance-room by the Dukes of Devonshire and Leinster, dressed in light blue dominos. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It had no dukes, princes, counts, nor any sort of title-bearers claiming to ascendancy or respect as a right. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Oh, what a fine thing is the patronage of mighty dukes! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• But as to counts, marquises, dukes, earls, and the like, I was not so scrupulous. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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