gulielmian

Example Sentences

• "Now, concerning the Gulielmian or Bavarian line ther are but 4 living, wherof two are Churchmen, viz. the Archbiſhop of Colen [Maximilian Henry of Bavaria], and the Biſhop of Frizing [Albrecht Sigismund of Bavaria], which can leave no iſſue behind; […]"
• "GOODWILL. GOODWILLIE. These singular names have no reference to the character, good or bad, of any of the vast Gulielmian tribe, but, according to [Robert Lindsay of] Pittscottie, a good-willer and a well-wisher are synonymous. Used jocularly."
• "As for externals, it may be at once admitted that Messrs. [John Alfred] Gotch and [Hermann] Knackfuss, the architects, have resolutely refused to retain any of the features of the old building. The new palace is entirely in the neo-Gulielmian style, and is built from end to end of collo-concrete blocks of condensed pâté de foie gras faced with Parian marble."
• "It has been computed, that by intrusting a well-concocted and tolerably interesting lie, in strictest confidence, to two fashionable Galens, in full practice, and four determined morning visitors or levee haunters, the story will reach 7,963 individuals in the course of four-and-twenty hours,—the Court Journal on the Saturday,—and the Post and Herald on the following Monday,—the Constitutionnel on the Friday ensuing,—the Allgemeine Zeitung within ten days,—the Ispahan Courier in three weeks,—and the New York Courant in five;—the New Monthly will chew the end of the anecdote in its lion’s mouth;—the old Gentleman’s Magazine bolt it without a single wry face;—the Annual Register immortalize the record;—and forty years hence, the Georgian, or Gulielmian Era, furbish it up again for the admiration of our grand children."
• "Such were my early but forgotten productions,—still-born innocents. The writers of the Gulielmian age, of whom so much had been asked, did, of course, just nothing at all for them."
• "He [Edward Colborne Baber] adds: “Georgian” (but read Gulielmian—there are no Georgian rupees with effigy) “and Victorian rupees are distinguished as po-tu and mo-tu, meaning male-head and female-head.[…]”"