"Dignitary" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... dignitary sat his sons, and their wives, and his daughters and their husbands, and their children, and so on, back to the Brandeis pew, third from the last, behind which sat only a few obscure families branded as Russians, ...
— Fanny Herself • Edna Ferber
... of the more famous Theodor, was some three years older than Schiller and belonged to an opulent and distinguished family. His father was a high church dignitary, his mother the daughter of a well-to-do Leipzig merchant. The boy had grown up under austere religious influences and then drifted far in the direction of liberalism. After a university career devoted at first to the humanities and then to law, he had ...
— The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller • Calvin Thomas
... her coldly, incredulously. "What? That dreadful man your uncle?" she had exclaimed: she herself was the daughter of a church dignitary. "I should say I did know him—by reputation at least. And it's ...
— The Getting of Wisdom • Henry Handel Richardson
... on they were halted by a tall, thin, sour-looking man in the elaborate headgear and robes of a dignitary of ...
— Masters of the Guild • L. Lamprey
... and velvet hats, all hastening with a ready zeal to obey the call of the muster-roll. The captain with his retinue retires to pay his court to the provost; while, in the doctor's study, may be seen, gathered around the dignitary, a few of those great names who honor Eton and owe their honor to her classic tutors. Twelve o'clock strikes, and the procession is now marshalled in the quadrangle in sight of the privileged circle, princes, dukes, peers, and doctors with their ...
— The English Spy • Bernard Blackmantle
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