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

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

And then she had married a titled person, and everybody supposed she was a duchess, or a countess, and ma wanted us to inquire about her when we got over here.

From Peck's Bad Boy Abroad Being a Humorous Description of the Bad Boy and His Dad in Their Journeys Through Foreign Lands - 1904 by Peck, George W. (George Wilbur)

More than one mysterious titled person of importance came to the city under an assumed name, and went away leaving no one the wiser.

From The Red City A Novel of the Second Administration of President Washington by Mitchell, S. Weir (Silas Weir)

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