Sentences with phrase «local nobleman»

Mortified by the prospect of salvaging a king's ransom in moldy books — and horrified by word that repulsive local nobleman Lord Laphroig seeks to marry her — Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home.

He ran off from servitude to a local nobleman after carrying on an affair with the missus, so Tommasso instructs him to pretend he's a deaf mute as a cover story.

Specific references to the northern capital appear more than a century later at La Corona in written records of Calakmul royal ceremonies and a local nobleman's transformation into a ruler under the supervision of Calakmul's king.

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To put the unfolding scenario in proper historical perspective, the British had first invaded the Emerald Isle back in the 12th Century, establishing at that time a feudal system which ensured that avaricious noblemen could enrich themselves at the expense of the local populace.