grandee

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The Flaubert prize of about $3,000, instituted by an unknown benefactor to literature, was awarded to Fran�ois Robiscon de la Querini�re for his novel, The Spanish Grandee.

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Don Alba, a descendant of the famous Grandee family of Spain, entered politics a year before the War.

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"I have learned," he cried, "that this Grandee kept his hat on in the King's presence at least once�in 1911!"

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At his side was Lieutenant General Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella, Grandee of Spain, Dictator under the ample title of President of the Council.

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The king was so pleased with the blind fiddler’s speech that he immediately made him a Grandee of Spain, and acknowledged him as his son-in-law elect.

From Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes Spanish and Portuguese Folklore by Various