Courtier

Examples

• He has generally been something of a courtier and time server. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I don't know what Sir Thomas may think of such matters; he may be too much of the courtier and fine gentleman to like his daughter the less. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Even you are a courtier, or think it necessary to become one to me! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• My father is Miss Havisham's cousin; not that that implies familiar intercourse between them, for he is a bad courtier and will not propitiate her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• It is the court fool, not the foolish courtier, whom the king can least afford to lose. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Here he must have made some sort of signal for immediately the door opened and another richly trapped courtier emerged. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The ruler was engaged in conversation with his son, Sab Than, and several courtiers of his household, and did not perceive my entrance. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• If that is true of Plato with his ample vision how much truer is it of the theories of the littler men--politicians, courtiers and propagandists who make up the academy of politics. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• Many of the leading princes and courtiers of the queen's party fled abroad. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The mass of Cook's Courtiers are in their usual state of mind, no better and no worse; but Mr. Snagsby is changed, and his little woman knows it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

Edited by Harold