rothschildren

Example Sentences

• "[…] when the elderly worthies have arrived opposite the Snake Houses—so called because the Rothschildren were intertwined there—they stand open-mouthed to catch the sea-air, for all the world as if they were singing “Come if you dare,” to those horrid Roman Catholics the French, on the opposite coast, at a place they call Dip, because people go there to bathe."
• "Lady Morley called my Hebrew hosts of yesterday the Rothschildren. I forgot to mention one droll occurrence – the Neapolitan Rothschild near whom I sate began to abuse the King of Naples – a fool – a villain – a poltroon."
• "The Princess Anna Murat appeared as a Neapolitan woman; Madame de Girardin, a shepherdess with powdered hair and silver crook, while Madame Alphonse de Rothschild, (one of the Rothschildren,) appeared inundated with roses and diamonds, an amphora in hand (which must have been in the way of a valse), and her head surmounted by a little lyre."
• "The Rothschildren. […] Rothschild, who inherit their father’s immense wealth, inherit also the true-blue Rothschild tradition."
• "At noon on 19 July I was writing: / At the port / We had a merry dinner with the Rothschildren and Winston and Venetia, Winston packed for the Ferry with bezique-cards in hand for plucking me."
• "The Rothschilds, in all the countries in which they settled, prospered and proved adaptable and good citizens of the countries of their adoption. They successfully transcended all kinds of snobbery and racial distaste in England, France, Germany and Austria. They acclimatized themselves to the new atmosphere in which they were living, and established rapidly their own standards of comfort, luxury, artistic taste and above all of cuisine. The Rothschildren achieved in many people’s eyes the status of minor royalty."