What is "standish"

Usage examples of "standish".

Lysander Standish, all silken, all scented, all intolerance , striking up his pose of outrage in the doorway, a whining poodle clenched ruthlessly to his lime-green waistcoat and his quizzing glass all but screwed into one eye.

He was a mockery of all the other Standish men had ever stood for, and yet her blood ran cold.

Besides, she could cope, she would fight anybody, was she a Standish, too.

His lordship took his cue and Luciana heard again that underlying laughter, appreciating her anything but madonna-like behaviour, encouraging it with the same devilment she had known in the Standish men she had lost.

That it should have been his and she had cheated him by bearing the Standish heirs.

Carlo is the Marquess of Standish and as his mother I direct his household as I choose.

It had happened again, as it happened every time she Standish values been doing to you, Luciana?

Charles Lorne Fitzgerald Standish, taking his responsibilities so gravely.

Marquess Charles had been a good patron of his lands, Somerton had been safe in Standish hands and always would be.

If you were to dispute me, what court in the land would allow wardship of the Marquess of Standish to the daughter of an Irish mercenary?

She had made gods of the Standish men and they had made a spoilt little goddess out of her.

Lysander thinks he can achieve, other than to get his hands on the Standish fortune by ousting me as guardian and trustee.

The nearest to hero-worship the self-sufficient Marquess of Standish would ever come.

She had looked at herself again and barely remembered the bride she had been when Aunt Anne and Uncle Charles had come and made presents to her of the Standish diamonds.

She had managed Somerton alone, controlled everything , trusted by the Standish men to do so.