What is "archduchess"

Usage examples of "archduchess".

Marie Antoinette herself repented of her neglect, and did her best to repair it, taking lessons in more than one accomplishment with great perseverance during the first years of her residence at Versailles, because, as she expressed herself, the dauphiness was bound to take care of the character of the archduchess.

As if to sweeten the bitter pill I had to swallow, he told me how the Empress of Austria had ordered him to leave Vienna in twenty-four hours, merely because he had complimented the Archduchess Christina on behalf of Prince Louis of Wurtemberg.

XIII Archduchess Anne ascending flew, Her heart outsoared, but felt The demon of her sex pursue, Incensing or to melt.

Edward sat sprawled in an overstuffed armchair before the fire in the most lavish and most costly suite of rooms in the Clarendon, the same rooms, claimed Peart in uncharacteristic awe, that were always requested by a certain Russian archduchess whenever she came to London.

Holding court for the season at their Pisan palace, Their Serene Highnesses Cosimo II, Archduchess Maria Maddalena, and Grand Duchess Mother Madama Cristina filled the seats around their table three times a day with interesting conversationalists who could inform them on a variety of subjects.

Until Ferdinando reached majority, however, he deferred perforce in all matters to the judgment of his regents: his mother, Archduchess Maria Maddalena of Austria, and his grandmother, the dowager Grand Duchess Cristina of Lorraine.

XIII Archduchess Anne ascending flew, Her heart outsoared, but felt The demon of her sex pursue, Incensing or to melt.

Galileo for the wedding of Prince Cosimo, in 1608, to Maria Maddalena, the archduchess of Austria and sister of Emperor Ferdinand II.

I quite won over the Grand Duke and his Archduchess, while Don Paolo came to my assistance with a very apt quotation from the Scripture.

ARCHDUCHESS ANNE 1--I In middle age an evil thing Befell ARCHDUCHESS Anne: She looked outside her wedding-ring Upon a princely man.

IX That was a moment when a shock Through the procession ran, And thrilled the plumes, and stayed the clock, Yet smiled Archduchess Anne.

But this one instinct true, Which bids me in my weakness kneel, Archduchess Anne, to you.

XXIV Then bent and went the lady wan, Whose girlishness made grey The thoughts that through Archduchess Anne Shattered like stormy spray.

XXVIII And she that helped to slay, yet bade To spare the fated man, Great were her errors, but she had Great heart, Archduchess Anne.

SECOND CITIZEN Our young Archduchess Maria Louisa was, they tell me, present?