Sentences with phrase «aristocratic families with»

And, historically at least, upper ranks in the RC church were filled by people from aristocratic families with a class distinction existing between them and others.

He was born in 1878 into one of Germany's old aristocratic families with a tradition of service in both Church and nation.

Diana was born in 1961, into the Spencer family, a British aristocratic family with royal ancestry.

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The family's guide, Sorenson recounts, was one Dr. Shailesh, a learned sage with an aristocratic air and a wicked laugh who reminded Sorenson and his wife of «a Brahman version of Vincent Price.»

But at least she gets this right: «Brideshead mattered so much to Evelyn because he put so much of himself into it: his distance from his father, his sentimental education of Oxford, his early love affairs, his initiation into the aristocratic world of the Lygons [model for the novel's Marchmain family], his conversion to Roman Catholicism, his abortive love affair with the Army....

She's a warrior from an aristocratic vampire family at battle with street - thug werewolves.

Their lives sound very dramatic to me; there's suicide (Percy's first wife killed herself), secret pregnancies, and all sorts of drama with Percy's aristocratic family and his own radical views.

Production has already started on Warner Bros. and MGM's Tomb Raider reboot and the first photos from the set have debuted online from The Daily Mail, featuring Alicia Vikander in costume as Lara Croft, «the only daughter of an aristocratic family who ventures out into dangerous locations in search of ancient artifacts with supernatural powers.»

A light romantic drama set on the horse racing circuit, Harlow is a socialite back from Europe, where he's picked up a lot of aristocratic attitude and a swell of a beau (Walter Pidgeon as a high society bachelor with old family money), and Clark Gable is a race track bookie and friend of the family who alternately competes with her and for her.

Born to an aristocratic English family, her early years were spent in a loving environment, that is until her father's obsession with alchemy and immortality gained by obtaining the Souls Blade drove him to an early grave.

Patricia Grasso is the author of eighteen historical romances including the Douglas Series which follows the love stories of the amazing Douglas sisters (Angelica, Samantha and Victoria) in Regency London and the Lords of Stratford Series, Regency historical romances with a fairy - tale twist about the aristocratic families in Stratford - on - Avon.

At any rate a Greyhound - like dog was destined to find its way, perhaps through Persia, to Afghanistan, where it grew a long, shaggy coat for protection against the harsh climate and found favour with the royal and aristocratic families of that land.

Several paintings by Dutch and Spanish artists portrayed many of these small pampered spaniels along with their aristocratic families.

Born to an aristocratic English family, her early years were spent in a loving environment, that is until her father's obsession with alchemy and immortality gained by obtaining the Souls Blade drove him to an early grave.

Often with apathetic expressions, the drawings render various characters from the UmuEze Amara Clan, a fictionalized aristocratic family.

Choosing from tens of thousands of internet images of Jackson to pair with the few available images of Baudelaire, O'Grady represents the two men at roughly the same ages, tracing their trajectories: Baudelaire's descent from an aristocratic family into poverty and Jackson's rise to wealth and fame.