Accident gave him the liberal end of the piece, a circumstance to which he never would have assented had he known the fact, for being an attache of the legation of his own country, he was ex officio aristocratic.
Thus, you shall stand on the aristocratic side of a room filled with company, and every thing will present a vulgar and democratic appearance; or, vice versa, you shall occupy a place among the oi polloi, and all is aristocratic, exclusive, and offensive.
Miss Bella Wilfer becomes an inmate, for an indefinite period, of the eminently
aristocratic dwelling.
There, probably, he saw visions of hereditary rank for himself and other
aristocratic colonists.
Her purpose being disclosed, her well-bred ease appeared sinister, her aristocratic repose a treacherous device, her venerable graciousness a mask of unbounded contempt for all human beings whatever.
I spoke looking her straight in the face and I made that exquisite, aristocratic old woman positively blink by my directness.
But even the satisfaction of talking with a distant connection of the British nobility did not render Amy forgetful of time, and when the proper number of minutes had passed, she reluctantly tore herself from this
aristocratic society, and looked about for Jo, fervently hoping that her incorrigible sister would not be found in any position which should bring disgrace upon the name of March.
You might sing 'Marlborough s'en va-t-en guerre,' for that's quite a child's song and is sung as a lullaby in all the aristocratic houses.
You see, honoured sir, these orphans of good family--I might even say of aristocratic connections--and that wretch of a general sat eating grouse .
His handsome, delicate, and still youthful-looking face, to which his curly, glistening silvery hair gave a still more
aristocratic air, lighted up with a smile when he saw Levin.
It being her first day of complete estrangement from rural objects, Phoebe found an unexpected charm in this little nook of grass, and foliage, and
aristocratic flowers, and plebeian vegetables.
In reply he termed me "a dry-hearted
aristocratic scamp," whereupon I again charged him with having taken the bread out of my mouth.
