patrician

The Patrician turned away and looked out over the city.

Probably the Patrician had at least known about the letter.

They were led by a young man like yourself, a patrician.

The man had gray hair and a long patrician face.

Now, as before, one word came to mind when Trip looked at the general: patrician.

The Patrician could come and have a look at him if he liked.

The Patrician sat down, and suddenly it was as if he'd never left.

The Patrician walked to the edge of the floor and looked down.

The Patrician had always felt that if you made people comfortable they might want to stay.

But when I hear myself saying things like that, they sound dry and patrician.

Born into a patrician family, he spent the greater part of his life in public service.

However, the name does not seem to have been used regularly by any other patrician family.

And it will be a fair one,' said the Patrician.

He was a patrician in the finest sense of the word.

A patrician, she was not and never could be her own mistress.

Only the Patrician knew how many spies he had in the city.

And when the Patrician was unhappy, he became very democratic.

"I believe this is not the case," said the Patrician.

They were exactly the kind of old-fashioned patricians who would go!

He often "looks down his long patrician nose" at others.

But he is one of the old patrician Romans, all right.

The Patrician nodded and made a short note on the list in front of him.

I think he's got a sort of soft spot for the Patrician, in his way.

"Perhaps whatever they were doing makes people hungry," said the Patrician.

The Roman patricians had tried to put that one over on the rest of the people, too.

"That is a most patrician way of looking at it."

"There's nothing to be done with you," she had said in her most patrician voice.

But before that night, the same press looked at those patrician features and saw a company man.

He was loved for it at first; then criticized as too patrician.

That is, people with patrician blood don't get special favors.

He was a tall man, extraordinarily handsome in a dark, highly patrician way.

"That your soft words, like all patrician conciliations, have come too late."

Sometimes patrician associations played a direct role in government.

All patrician children were educated, many by privately hired tutors.

He played these works on this occasion with patrician elegance and a palpable sense of discovery.

The teacher was a middle-aged woman, very erect, very patrician.

Politicians, no matter how patrician their birth, were a vulgar infantile lot.

Lazio, very much the second club, had patrician beginnings which have never really been forgiven.

So let them think your daring deeds were done inside a patrician Roman skin."

Today it is an elite residential enclave, one of Paris' most patrician addresses.

You all but nod hello to a particularly patrician wedge of coconut meringue.

"That's very patrician charioteering, but it seems to me a horse like this needs guidance.

In an attempt to add a level of organization to the city, these patrician families were divided into units called "curiae".

Unlike George W. Bush, he does not have patrician roots.

The music of logic was too patrician for the streets, too subtle, the nuances all wrong.

Moynihan was a popular public speaker with a distinctly patrician style.

Anna has patrician features like her mother.

So far, Naipaul's public reaction to the onslaughts has been patrician aloofness.

"I, a patrician Cornelius, to march as a ranker in a legion?"

A patrician Cornelius could do precisely what he pleased without diminishing his prominence in the history books of the future.