Patrician in example sentence

CHAPTER 26 Moral LoveThere also was of course in AdelineThat calm patrician polish in the address,Which ne'er can pass the equinoctial lineOf anything which nature would express;Just as a mandarin finds nothing fine,At least his manner suffers not to guessThat anything he views can greatly please.

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Her age, her patrician family lineage, and her apparent good health makes her the best candidate to serve the goddess Vesta in the eyes of the Romans.

He is mean and nasty and terribly conflicted by his attraction to the lovely, patrician, & heroic Kerr.

This is a fascinating political documentary that focuses on the 2004 electoral campaign, in which one wealthy patrician convinced the electorate that he would be more fun to drink a beer with than the other wealthy patrician.

At the home of the Iranian-American Nazee Moinian, whose Manhattan apartment recalls the patrician abodes of the members of the Algonquin Round Table, the assembled elites are in agreement.

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