AliceGirlNoble; Kind; Nobility AutumnGirlName of the season Autumn; Fall JosephineGirlGod shall grow; Jehovah increases SophieGirlShe who is wise HaileyGirlMeadow of hay; Hay clearing SadieGirlPrincess; Noblewoman NataliaGirlChristmas day; Born on Christmas day; Of or concerning birth ...
3.1BorrowingWordsShowFrenchCulturesInfluenceonBritishCultureThepeerageculture:AftertheConquest,Normansoccupiedthepositionsoftheoldnobles.ThenameofnobilitytitlewasreplacedFrenchwords.Amongduke,duchess,marquis,marchioness,earl,countess,viscount,viscountess,baron,baroness,onlyearlisEnglishwordswhileothersallcomefromFrench.The...
an appellation designating nobility short forsubtitle written material giving credits in a film or television programme a championship the legal right to possession of property, esp real property the basis of such right the documentary evidence of such right:title deeds ...
One whose self-rebukes never really inflicted pain? Well, there was all this to reflect upon, while I endured a special kind of remorse: a hurt inflicted at long last on one who always thought he knew how to avoid being hurt—and inflicted for precisely that reason. (Part Two, p.142)...
The last capea of Saltillo at Miravalles (Photo: Miguel Santos) Having realised that I was now just atoreroon paper – a second-hand guy on the sand – I decided to quit while I was still ahead. (The bulls gave me a great deal, and I gave a great deal back, but they took somethi...
whose possessions inFranceexceeded in extent his English kingdom, had spent little of his time in England, and his son, Richard I {1189 - 1199}, who succeeded him, was in England only one year during his reign. In his absence the nobility succeeded in increasing their power at the expens...
which mock the conspicuous consumption of the English nobility and middle classes and show sympathy with ordinary working people. Boitard was perhaps responsible for the engraved tailpieces at the end of each section of the 1738Constitutions. In 1744, Boitard also provided illustrations for the freema...
1. The old English aristocracy 贵族 having been exterminated (wiped out) in the course of the War of the Roses, a new nobility 高贵, totally dependent on King’s power, come to the fore 涌现. T 2. Absolute monarchy in England reached its summit during the reign of Queen Elizabeth. T...
Extinction of Wolves in the British Isles By the turn of the 16th century, wolves were extinct in England and Wales. However, they held for for longer in other parts of the British realm. In Scotland, wolves survived almost 200 years more, despite regular wolf hunts organized by nobility an...
On their face they are but names of men, or possibly sometimes of places; but we cannot utter the name of Lincoln without thinking of the whole terrible struggle of our Civil War; the name of Washington, without thinking of nobility, patriotism, and self-sacrifice in a pure an...