courtiers

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Rhaenyra half-smiles at her courtier’s assurance that sowing rhetoric to counter Aemond and Alicent’s could help her.

From Salon • Jul. 18, 2024

Love only strikes, however, when Danielle slips off her humble garb and dons a courtier’s dress to buy back a servant her stepmother has sold.

From New York Times • Jun. 1, 2015

The idea came from a speech of Ophelia’s: “Oh, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown! The courtier’s, soldier’s, scholar’s, eye, tongue, sword.”

From Washington Post • Jan. 23, 2015

Wyatt's poems strike at the heart of the courtier's – or, more broadly, politician's – dilemma: how to remain constant, or true, or to retain any sense of perspective or self, in such a situation?

From The Guardian • Dec. 14, 2012

Ser Gerris was all his prince was not: tall and lean and comely, with a swordsman’s grace and a courtier’s wit.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin