patriciate
Example Sentences
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The flower of the Roman patriciate was wallowing in this monstrous treachery.
From "Unto Caesar" by Emmuska Orczy, Baroness Orczy
The patriciate succeeded the imperial, being the seventh head, and only of short duration, about fifty years.
From Notes on the Apocalypse by David Steele
Gilbert Osmond had a high appreciation of this particular patriciate; not so much for its distinction, which he thought easily surpassable, as for its solid actuality.
From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by Henry James
Lady Barb verily appeared to have for the representative of the American patriciate a mysterious fascination.
From Lady Barbarina The Siege of London, An International Episode and Other Tales by Henry James
Those who have borne it have belonged of right to the true patriciate of their Commonwealth.
From William Hickling Prescott by Harry Thurston Peck
