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Answer for the clue "Rhodes of Rhodesia fame ", 5 letters:
cecil

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Usage examples of cecil.

Only William Cecil, her longtime advisor, was sure enough of his welcome to interrupt the intimate talk between the two childhood friends.

William Cecil groaned softly, dropped his head into his hands, and listened with his eyes closed as the Bishop of Winchester preached himself into house arrest.

Whitehall Palace, and Cecil and Elizabeth were anxious that the traditions of Tudor rule should be seen as continuous.

Neither Cecil nor Dudley had yet managed to get home to their wives for so much as a single night during the Christmas season.

He found her already in close-headed conference with William Cecil, seated over a little table with papers before them.

She glanced up and smiled at him but she did not wave him to approach, and he was forced to stand against the wood-paneled walls with the dozen or so other men who had risen early to pay their compliments and found that Cecil had got in first.

Then it had been Cecil alone who had kept the princess from folly, and now it was Cecil alone who had the reward for those years of service.

Dudley thought, looking from Cecil at the table to Kat Ashley at the window.

And she would have to lose faith in Cecil before anything else could be done.

French ambassador, a couple of lords, some small-fry gentry, a couple of ladies-in-waiting, and half a dozen guards that Cecil had collected to accompany the queen, Dudley managed to ride by her side and they were left alone for most of the ride.

William Cecil remarked, coming up to the table as the cards were brought.

Sir Francis bowed his obedience, and Dudley and Cecil made their way over to him.

The older man was smiling, a quirky corner upturned at his mouth as if he knew exactly what Cecil was thinking.

Cecil stayed up all night writing lists of men he could trust, preparing plans to see her guarded, and knew at the end that if the Catholics of England obeyed the Pope, as they must do, then Elizabeth was a dead woman, and all that Cecil could do for her was to delay her funeral.

The loud, joyful rumble of the court at dinner filled the great hall, the servants cleared the tables, and then Cecil was beckoned up to the dais and stood before the queen.