Marquis in example sentence
Une preuve décisive du mariage c’est que ce marquis, immensément riche et par conséquent fort avare, comme c’est l’usage parmi les gens opulents du nord de l’Italie, faisait des préparatifs immenses, et pourtant il épousait une fille sans dot.
More example sentences with word marquis
To which Don Quixote replied, "Thou must know, friend Sancho Panza, that it was a practice very much in vogue with the knights-errant of old to make their squires governors of the islands or kingdoms they won, and I am determined that there shall be no failure on my part in so liberal a custom; on the contrary, I mean to improve upon it, for they sometimes, and perhaps most frequently, waited until their squires were old, and then when they had had enough of service and hard days and worse nights, they gave them some title or other, of count, or at the most marquis, of some valley or province more or less; but if thou livest and I live, it may well be that before six days are over, I may have won some kingdom that has others dependent upon it, which will be just the thing to enable thee to be crowned king of one of them. 
