What is "personage"

Usage examples of "personage".

To put it briefly, we are perfectly well aware of the activities of these anarchistic personages.

But if you can get him to try his skill upon this interesting personage and his antipathy, so much the better.

Lady Trent had spoken more truly than she knew, and would have been as much surprised as dismayed to have learnt that her provoking niece, having repulsed two very eligible suitors, had discovered that no less a personage than the Nonesuch would do for her.

It did not take long for Pandan to decide that this information would prove to be of enormous importance to the present chief of the tribe, and that this personage, Xangan, would reward with his favor the individual who was first to apprise him of this turn of events.

All three, when introduced, bore the same patronymic as the royal personage and so were surely related to him, dependent on him, and therefore likely to tell him always what they knew he wanted to hear rather than the truth, which made for damned poor advisers.

This was, perhaps, no very civil use of such personages: but the contrivance was, nevertheless, ingenious enough, and had its effect.

After a few moments of awkward silence, he shifted in his seat and fell back to regaling Miss Robertson with more pithy commentary on the various personages who were making their way along Rotten Row.

But Zachariah leaped over the top of the door that led into the Merryweather pew, and sat himself down inside upon the cushions as though he were all the Pharaohs who had ever lived combined into one magnificent purring personage.

Chateaubriand, after a night of love, composed this quatrain, which may now be published--all the personages being dead.

In swift and picturesque sequence the personages of the Masque pass before us.

These words had much power, for they rendered mute and attentive all the royal personages, who, with very various sentiments, set about recomposing at the same time the mysteries which the young had not seen, and which the old had believed to be forever effaced.

The Shereefian officers stood back at a respectful distance, ready to salute when the personage should deign to alight.

Web, husband of the most important woman in the Shir, and a famous personage in his own right.

Look at him, sitting there presiding over the deliberations of a legislative body, among whom are white men--a grave, dignified, statesmanlike personage, and as seemingly natural and fitted to the place as if he had been born in it and had never been out of it in his life time.

It was there that Egalite Orleans roasted partridges on the night when he and the Marquis of Steyne won a hundred thousand from a great personage at ombre.