What is "titled"

Usage examples of "titled".

I vaguely knew that he was the black sheep younger son of a titled Irish family, and that he had walked many strange ways.

See, it would have more accurately been titled the Cumquat of the Knowledge of How to Cure Ailments of the Foot.

However, it was deuced difficult to marry to advantage when one had never been privileged to set eyes upon an eligible and titled gentleman.

He had a nephew who was the heir to all his wealth, whom he married to a noble Tuscan lady, hoping to found a titled family, though in an indirect kind of way.

Adelon, today I leave you, but I could not go till I had pled my suit again, and now I ask you: Will you listen to my prayer, and in return for the riches, rank, and titled name I offer, will you give me but your heart?

I think at sane point Gwynna was wise enough to the ways of the world to see that her niece had it a smidge better than she did, being at least the illegitimate dauqhter of someone titled rather than a coattail relative.

If she knew how a renegade Scottish lord had purchased a titled English bridegroom, she would demand an annulment forthwith.

And as generations of the younger sons of Kindred Houses had wed the daughters of merchants, tradesmen, and farmers, while their titled brethren were blending their own blood and genes with scionesses of the houses of the surviving Ehleenoee nobility, there became less and ever less distinction between Kindred herder and Ehleenoe farmer stocks.

He longed particularly, he said, for a work in Latin available only in Europe, titled Acta Sanctorum, in forty-seven volumes, on the lives of the saints compiled in the sixteenth century.

Callender assaulted Adams in a series of essays that would soon appear as a book titled The Prospect Before Us.

All that, before a bottle of Chablis smoothed their way for the lobster, butter running down his thumb onto the white tablecloth, before the light and the aerator were installed and the plants submerged in the tank, before another delivery brought more bills and anonymous personalized invitations and a script indecently titled from a playwriting hopeful thirsting for production and before another rushed a lone angelfish in a plasticized transparency to take up residence among the water sprite and Ludwigia and wavering fronds of Spatterdock enveloped in silence and the eerie illumination neither day nor night, spooky was the word for it as his hand glided over her breasts, now could he feel it?

Many a businessperson had been left high and dry by titled gentlemen with pockets to let.

Gerek left for Kincardine Castle on the east coast of Scotland, home of James Graham the newly titled fifth Earl of Montrose.

Lunacharsky became the evocatively titled Commissar of Enlightenment, while Bogdanov assumed the leadership of the Proletkult movement.

He had known me as the daughter of the titled folk at Witchwood Hall, the finest house for miles around.