Illustrious people

Usage examples of personages.

The wall behind the Exalted Personages had a huge reproduction of the male-head motif, crafted of gold and deeply set into a complex mosaic of the crystalline meta lights.

The Personages were attended by a double line of servitors, much more sumptuously dressed than those who waited upon the lower orders.

Astonishingly enough, the Exalted Personages got up from their thrones and also joined in the salute.

The six honorees were seated on low couches opposite the Exalted Personages and all formality went by the board as the Tanu aristocrats satisfied their curiosity by asking the time-travelers a torrent of questions.

Thagdal smiled and raised his cup and so did the remaining Exalted Personages occupying the thrones that flanked his.

Only the five Exalted Personages and a small squad of soldiers waiting at a discreet distance now remained in the time-portal area.

A brilliant emerald beam stabbed the lowhanging cloud deck, piercing the gray and allowing a widening shaft of solar radiance to spotlight its summoner, the two Kings and the Firvulag general standing behind him, and the rest of the Most Exalted Personages on the platform.

When Aiken Drum goes himself to meet the Foe, unarmed and unafraid, while certain Exalted Personages rest secure behind impregnable screens, dithering about antiquated tactics that no longer dismay the Firvulag—much less defeat them?

That evening she expected several important personages who had to be made ashamed of their visits to the French theater and aroused to a patriotic temper.

They say that historical personages have power only because they fulfill the will of the people which has been delegated to them.

The theory that this connection is based on the transference of the collective will of a people to certain historical personages is an hypothesis unconfirmed by the experience of history.

On the other hand, even if we admitted that words could be the cause of events, history shows that the expression of the will of historical personages does not in most cases produce any effect, that is to say, their commands are often not executed, and sometimes the very opposite of what they order occurs.

He had been dining with royal personages, and wore his garter and ribbon.

He had won money of the most august personages of the realm: he had won his marquisate, it was said, at the gaming-table.

A grand painted hatchment was already over the great entrance, and two very solemn and tall personages in black flung open each a leaf of the door as the carriage pulled up at the familiar steps.