notabilities

The last of the notabilities is the Rokeby bridge, said to be one of the longest in Sweden.

Visit to Iceland Ida Pfeiffer 1827

The minister's family, however, were to remain as guests, together with the "notabilities," to the end of the week.

The Visionary Pictures From Nordland Jonas Lauritz Idemil Lie 1870

And so the Duke, satirically amused at the obvious embarrassment of the other "notabilities" assembled, did nothing whatsoever to relieve or to lighten the conversation, which remained so utterly dull and inane that Alwyn, who had been compelled, for politeness 'sake, to appear interested in the account of a bicycle race detailed to him by a very masculine looking lady-doctor whose seat at table was next his own, began to feel a little weary, and to wonder dismally how long this "feast of reason and flow of soul" was going to last.

Ardath Marie Corelli 1889

At the same time, Effie's accounts of some of the notabilities she runs up against—Pope Pius IX is described as "a very nice, benevolent-looking old gentleman"—are not always terribly revealing.

A Far From Model Marriage D.J. Taylor 2011

At the same time, Effie's accounts of some of the notabilities she runs up against—Pope Pius IX is described as "a very nice, benevolent-looking old gentleman"—are not always terribly revealing.

A Far From Model Marriage D.J. Taylor 2011

He again declined; but the prefect resisted his refusal, all the notabilities of the place came to implore him, the people in the street besought him; the urging was so vigorous that he ended by accepting.

Les Miserables 2008

To one of these dinners, as it happened, were invited in the year 1583 all the notabilities of Bideford, and beside them Mr.St. Leger of Annery close by, brother of the marshal of Munster, and of

Westward Ho! 2007

All the notabilities of Bideford came, of course, to see the baptism of the first “Red man” whose foot had ever trodden British soil, and the mayor and corporation-men appeared in full robes, with maces and tipstaffs, to do honor to that first-fruits of the Gospel in the West.

Westward Ho! 2007

Athenaeum, assembled in their committee-room, and thence marshalled by the chairman and vice-chairman to his rostrum in the lecture-hall, round about which the magnates of the institution and the notabilities of the town were rallied on this public occasion.

The Newcomes 2006

Let me whisper to you that your kinswoman is rather a searcher after what we call here notabilities.

The Newcomes 2006