marquis
Example Sentences
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What keeps the whole thing from drifting completely off into the ether is how Mrs. Harris and the marquis bond over the loss of a loved one.
From Seattle Times
Cocherel had been singled out by the Baron de Vastey in his treatise on the horrors of slavery, but in flowing handwriting, the commissioner’s note taker recorded the marquis’s losses with bureaucratic dispassion:
From New York Times
Lamb, meanwhile, one of Fetterman’s chief primary opponents in the state’s marquis Senate contest, is eager to hear Biden’s remarks on his sweeping infrastructure bill in person.
From Seattle Times
The characters seem slightly different with each viewing, and there are few more devastating closings than the marquis’s parting words, as he invites his guests inside to hide from the cold.
From New York Times
She shouldn’t have, for he was common and she the daughter of a marquis, but she couldn’t help herself.
From Seattle Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
