archduke

Behind the archduke were his two liveried bodyguards, armed and vigilant.

Tai-Pan Clavell, James 1966

The archduke was a man of high-soaring ideas, chivalrous, brave even to the point of audacity, full of expedients and never daunted by failure, but he was deficient in stability of character, and always hampered throughout his life by lack of funds.

History of Holland George Edmundson 1889

During this long and dreadful war, the king had suffered no disaster so terrible as this, and the courtiers now declared openly that the archduke was the cause of the royal and national humiliation.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1600-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845

During this long and dreadful war, the king had suffered no disaster so terrible as this, and the courtiers now declared openly that the archduke was the cause of the royal and national humiliation.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce, 1607b John Lothrop Motley 1845

During this long and dreadful war, the king had suffered no disaster so terrible as this, and the courtiers now declared openly that the archduke was the cause of the royal and national humiliation.

PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete John Lothrop Motley 1845

During this long and dreadful war, the king had suffered no disaster so terrible as this, and the courtiers now declared openly that the archduke was the cause of the royal and national humiliation.

History of the United Netherlands from the Death of William the Silent to the Twelve Year's Truce — Complete (1584-1609) John Lothrop Motley 1845

On October 26th he writes thus: -- "Since the writing of my other letters, upon the resolution of the emperor and the archduke, I took occasion to go to the archduke, meaning to sound him to the bottom in all causes, and to feel whether such matter as he had uttered to me before (contained in my other letters) proceeded from him

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

Four months later, in June, the assassination of an archduke in the Balkans led to World War I, which has also been called “the Third Balkan War.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

An edict of the archduke of Austria in 1551 complained of the reprehensible activities of the Jews: “These scandalous evil actions are said to flow in good part from the fact that the Jews in numerous localities dwell and move about among the Christians without any distinguishing marks and without any difference in clothes and costume and thus cannot be distinguished from Christians nor recognized as Jews.”

Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011

One might an archduke kill, another a handsome president.

The Morality of Physics 101 - an elective James Lloyd Davis 2011