markis

George Inn, Melrose, told the author that he saw a stone taken from the river bearing this inscription: — “I, Sir John Pringle of Palmer stede, Give an hundred markis of gowd sae reid, To help to bigg my brigg ower Tweed.”

The Monastery 2008

My father was not a juke exactly, nor aven a markis, and see, nevertheliss, to what a pitch I am come.

The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush 2006

There is a sort of "hero-worship," as Mr Carlyle would term it, attaching to the most absurd, ridiculous, and even vicious doings of people who _might be_ fashionable; a counter-jumper, barber's clerk, medical student, or tailor's apprentice, adores the memory of that great man whom we are happy to be able to style the _late_ "markis."

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 327, January, 1843 Various

"Drown'd me if I ever 'eard sich' orrid talk in all my days, an 'I've groomed for a earl -- ah, an' a markis afore now!"

Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

The spook of a cook carn't reach the spook of a baron there hany more than a scullery-maid can reach a markis 'ere.

The Water Ghost and Others John Kendrick Bangs 1892

"Mean ye the yoong laird, or the yoong markis, mem?"

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

"An 'gien the markis daur to cross me in 't," said Malcolm at last, as he ended, "lat him leuk till himsel ', for it's no at a buffet or twa I wad stick, gien the puir laird was intill' t."

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

"I pat them on to please my daddy an 'the markis," said Malcolm, with a half shamed faced laugh.

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

"Gien ye gang on like that, the markis 'll hae ye drummed oot o' the toon or twa days be ower," said Malcolm.

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864

"An 'a yerl's neist door till a markis -- isna he?"

Malcolm George MacDonald 1864