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personage - use in sentences
Preposition: of
- importance: I was infinitely obliged for this advice, for M. Morosini was a personage of the greatest importance.
- note: Every Irish chieftain or personage of note had certain geise peculiar to himself which he must not transgress.
- rank: He must have been aware that there were personages of rank in that church whose petition on his behalf would not be wholly disregarded.
- century: Little Mother of Russia and Witness of a Century are two major biographies on two less well-known royal personages of 19th century Europe.
Converse of object
- follow: ADDENDUM The following personages appear in other stories of the Human Comedy.
- know: During the inter-war years most knew a plump personage with a walrus mustache.
- find: But he found a much more interesting personage in the Kablunet, who had been left under the care of Angut and Ermigit.
- see: Do we see such personages among the racist bigots from the Indo-Pak sub-continent?
- rob: The personage robbed is more thoroughly convinced, every day, of the necessity of reclaiming her letter.
- invite: Gouraud invited distinguished personages from all walks to record their voices for posterity at Little Menlo.
Preposition: in
- history: All in all a most important personage in the contemporary history of the crafts.
Adjective modifier
- illustrious: Engraving of Thomas first Lord Coventry; Lord keeper dated to plate 1818 from ' Portraits Of Illustrious Personages Of Great Britain.
- distinguished: Gouraud invited distinguished personages from all walks to record their voices for posterity at Little Menlo.
- royal: Every prince of the blood is a royal personage.
- noble: Joan of Acre was buried there in 1307 before a concourse of royal and noble personages.
- mysterious: Elsewhere ' shed light on this mysterious personage, or does it further obscure him?
- historical: Aaron Burr, in this way, also offers a fascinating prism through which to view the historical personage of Thomas Jefferson.
Noun used with modifier
- royal: Meanwhile the determined royal personage made her way to Sofia in Bulgaria.
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