titled person

Example Sentences

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“I’ve never heard anybody talking that he is. He was just a common, ordinary person, not a titled person of any kind before he was first elected, so that’s just kind of what we like.”

From The Guardian • Oct. 27, 2018

From this it would appear that the street at that date was full of small shops, grocers, chandlers, etc., with here and there a big house occupied by some titled person.

From The Strand District The Fascination of London by Besant, Walter, Sir

You know I never saw a titled person before, excepting one red-headed English Lord, who hadn’t any manners.

From A Bookful of Girls by Fuller, Anna

Octave Feuillet:—A French writer, the author of The Romance of a Poor Young Man; Feuillet's heroes are young, dark, good-looking, and poetic. château:—The country residence of a wealthy or titled person.

From Modern Prose And Poetry; For Secondary Schools Edited With Notes, Study Helps, And Reading Lists by Ashmun, Margaret

But Lady Meadowcroft was at the stage where a title is a title; and the discovery that I was the nephew of a "titled person" evidently interested her.

From Hilda Wade, a Woman with Tenacity of Purpose by Allen, Grant