"Marquess" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... divinity," exclaimed the gallant old Marquess de Fauteuil, who had just completed an admiring survey of the fair ...
— The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851 • Various
... that they are doing so," the officer replied. "We have news that the Duke of Parma is assembling his army at Bruges, where he is collecting the pick of the Spanish infantry with a number of Italian regiments which have joined him. He sent off the Marquess Del Vasto with the Sieur De Hautepenne towards Bois le Duc. General Count Hohenlohe, who, as you know, we English always call Count Holland, went off with a large force to meet him, and we heard only this ...
— By England's Aid or The Freeing of the Netherlands (1585-1604) • G.A. Henty
... if in other matters he had not made some mistakes. The king, however, having acquired Lombardy, regained at once the authority which Charles had lost: Genoa yielded; the Florentines became his friends; the Marquess of Mantua, the Duke of Ferrara, the Bentivogli, my lady of Forli, the Lords of Faenza, of Pesaro, of Rimini, of Camerino, of Piombino, the Lucchese, the Pisans, the Sienese—everybody made advances to him to become his friend. Then could the Venetians realize the rashness of the course taken ...
— The Prince • Niccolo Machiavelli |
