Many members of the community of Pontigny went on to occupy high positions in the church and many distinguished personages sought refuge there.

He did not like them, you see, or the things they required of him ... he is a distinguished personage, even among his kind.

In England the pawnbroker, like so many other distinguished personages, came in with William the Conqueror.

For a young woman to be participating in a coronation, foretells that she will come into some surprising favor with distinguished personages.

As court-painter at Darmstadt, where he died in 1765, he executed the portraits of a number of distinguished personages.

Julien, however, was only a little peasant, without any means of approaching distinguished personages.

He painted many of the most distinguished personages of his time.

Next, a distinguished personage from Chicago had reserved the presidential suite and would arrive on Labor Day, setting female hearts aflutter.

A still more distinguished personage fell before the enthusiastic Commissioner.

Subsequently he acted as 'traveling guardian to the son of a distinguished personage'.