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Implicit in the play is a great divide between superiors and inferiors, patricians and plebeians. (source)
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Just as he said this, a tall, sharp-nosed, capable-looking woman walked into the room, the age of a young-ish grandmother, with a thin, patrician-harpy face and iron-rust hair going gray.† (source)
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Williams was speaking of a patrician gentleman, about seventy, who was wearing a scarlet tailcoat with gold embroidery over one pocket.† (source)
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Like her older brother, Peter, she had gray eyes and a slender, patrician elegance.† (source)
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The name had allowed it; to some extent, the name had demanded it: strong and a bit patrician.† (source)
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He says he felt "uncomfortable" when he went for his interviews downtown, and of course he did: he was short and ungainly and Jewish and talked with the flat, nasal tones of his native Brooklyn, and you can imagine how he would have been perceived by some silver-haired patrician in the library.† (source)
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He looked up, staring across the green-lighted tent at the inbred, patrician lines of her face.† (source)
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As an educated man successful in his profession, as an eminent Republican and church leader-even though of the Methodist church-Mr. Clutter was entitled to rank among the local patricians, but just as he had never joined the Garden City Country Club, he had never sought to associate with the reigning coterie.† (source)
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He is handsome, with patrician features and swept-back, slightly greasy, light brown hair.† (source)
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When nurses looked in they saw two exemplary young people, healthy and strong, dressed like patricians.† (source)
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His face was patrician, eager to serve an equal who needed his expertise.† (source)
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Patricians?† (source)
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Just before Kasischke-a tall, athletic, silver-haired man with patrician reserve-emerged from the airport customs queue, I asked Andy how many times he'd been on Everest.† (source)
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He stared angrily back at the softly lit drawing-room of the hotel in which he imagined the sleek lives of the patricians of Ireland housed in calm.† (source)
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Zayd's grandfather on his dad's side (a patrician who was chairman and CEO of Commonwealth Edison Power) taught Zayd how to hunt.† (source)
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He was a most Christian gentleman, a member of a Reformed parish, with strict traditional opinions, so stubborn an advocate of restricting qualifications for those who govern to the aristocracy that it was as if he were living in the fourteenth century, when, against the dogged resistance of the old free patricians, tradesmen had first begun to win seats and voices in the town council—in sum, a man who opposed anything new.† (source)
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