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"text": "339. Portrait of a Spanish Grande.",
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"text": "Else, how could it be that a little Miss Mischief dresses up as a homely little Dutch farm girl, an awkward and uncouth youth parades in the costume and with the air of a Spanish grande, the respectable, quiet housewife becomes a sailor’s sweetheart, a little boy flirt assumes the detached air of a high priest a painstaking bookkeeper masquerades as a hold-up man or a bank robber with a record as a policeman?",
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"ref": "1966, Paul Bailey, The Claws of the Hawk: The Incredible Life of Wahker the Ute, Westernlore, →LCCN, page 90",
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"text": "The two plays were originally sketched with a French milieu, but after Voltaire’s revolutionary pamphlet Le Droit du seigneur (1762) it seemed safer to invent a Spanish grande and his castle Aguas Frescas—the more alluring to Beaumarchais as he knew the milieu well from his stay of eleven months in Spain.",
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"text": "So the attempt to seduce Zerlina freezes not only in the cold and monumental architecture of a black marble environment and in the stiff “overstyled” costuming, but also in the unresolvable, impossible role-conflict of a Spanish Grande trying to reach for something like John Wayne’s sex appeal.",
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"text": "D18. Portrait of a Spanish grande",
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"ref": "1847, T[erence] M[cMahon] Hughes, “Hercules Rafferty.—An Asturianillo.—An Irish stew.—A Bottle-Hero.—Don Tito de Chiclana.—O’Gorman.—Perils of love-making in the Peninsula.” (chapter VI), in An Overland Journey to Lisbon at the Close of 1846; with a Picture of the Actual State of Spain and Portugal, volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], page 89",
"text": "Console yourself with the practical philosophy of our countryman, Private Curtis, who was the picture of a Spanish Grande of the first class, and whom I once heard after a Lenten dinner extemporize with great good-humour this Leonine distich:—“Quod deficit in ferculis / Supplebitur in poculis!”",
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"ref": "1912, Tiemen De Vries, Dutch History, Art and Literature for Americans: Lectures Given in the University of Chicago, Eerdmans-Sevensma Company, pages 85–86",
"text": "When we read in almost every book in which the life of Philip is described that he was a man of haughty character with an aversion to every vulgarity; when we read of his ability in courting ladies, his manly beauty, his fine dress as a Spanish grande, we incline to think that before us stands a nobleman of kindred feelings, of carefully fostered nobility.",
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"ref": "1936 November 17, The New York Times Theater Reviews, pages 15–16",
"text": "With the exception of the vital Otto Woegerer as Juan, a Spanish grande, equally quick to draw his rapier against Hamlet as to appear a mystically presaging friend, the rest of the large cast fills its space with satisfactory competence.",
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"ref": "1943, National Academy of Design Exhibition Record, 1826-1860, page 73",
"text": "339. Portrait of a Spanish Grande.",
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"ref": "1952, German Review, page 19",
"text": "Else, how could it be that a little Miss Mischief dresses up as a homely little Dutch farm girl, an awkward and uncouth youth parades in the costume and with the air of a Spanish grande, the respectable, quiet housewife becomes a sailor’s sweetheart, a little boy flirt assumes the detached air of a high priest a painstaking bookkeeper masquerades as a hold-up man or a bank robber with a record as a policeman?",
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"ref": "1966, Paul Bailey, The Claws of the Hawk: The Incredible Life of Wahker the Ute, Westernlore, →LCCN, page 90",
"text": "Already you’re dressed like a Spanish grande, b’ God!",
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"ref": "1972, Helmut Anthony Hatzfeld, The Rococo: Eroticism, Wit, and Elegance in European Literature (Pegasus Movements in Literature Series), Pegasus, The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., →LCCN, page 108",
"text": "The two plays were originally sketched with a French milieu, but after Voltaire’s revolutionary pamphlet Le Droit du seigneur (1762) it seemed safer to invent a Spanish grande and his castle Aguas Frescas—the more alluring to Beaumarchais as he knew the milieu well from his stay of eleven months in Spain.",
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"ref": "1993, Eva Šormová, editor, Don Juan and Faust in the XXth Century: Theatre Conference, 27.9. - 1.10.1991, Prague, Charles University, page 274",
"text": "So the attempt to seduce Zerlina freezes not only in the cold and monumental architecture of a black marble environment and in the stiff “overstyled” costuming, but also in the unresolvable, impossible role-conflict of a Spanish Grande trying to reach for something like John Wayne’s sex appeal.",
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"ref": "1993, Sue Rich, Rawhide and Roses, Pocket Books, page 229",
"text": "From where they were, Hayden thought, it resembled the type of house a Spanish Grande might live in, neat, clean, with gentle arches framing the front portico.",
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"ref": "1996, Mozart Studien, volume 6, page 277",
"text": "The essence of the opera’s entire plot is revealed in just 28 measures: in this first musical number here, »a Spanish grande, fallen in love with a young girl, endeavours to seduce her«.",
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"ref": "2000, P. C. Morantte, Brother to the Wind, New Day Publishers, page 45",
"text": "Those that you see on Calle Real are owned by a Spanish grande who has a large coconut plantation.",
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"ref": "2004, Irene Awret, “Part One: Berlin”, in They’ll Have to Catch Me First: An Artist’s Coming of Age in the Third Reich, Madison, Wis.: The University of Wisconsin Press, page 36",
"text": "Was it Uncle Richard’s fault that he looked like a Spanish Grande, that women rarely could resist his melancholy brown eyes smoldering with an indefinable something?",
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"ref": "2007, Koenraad Jonckheere, Adriaen Thomasz. Key (c. 1545–c. 1589): Portrait of a Calvinist Painter, Brepols, page 152",
"text": "D18. Portrait of a Spanish grande",
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"ref": "2007, Karina Urbach, editor, European Aristocracies and the Radical Right 1918–1939, Oxford University Press, page 63",
"text": "This son, James Fritz-James, was created a Spanish Grande and Duke of Liria by Philip V.",
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"ref": "2014, Peter de Vos, Confusion (Nothing Is What It Seems; 1), Kibworth Beauchamp, Leics: Matador, page 5",
"text": "Gone was the affable behaviour of a loose-living playboy, replaced by the tough manners of a hard-working Chinese with the airs of a Spanish Grande.",
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"ref": "1972, Russell Sage College, Studies in the Twentieth Century, page 79",
"text": "Almost symbolically, Lopahin still plays the peasant and Lyubov the grande mistress.",
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"ref": "1993, Donald S. Metz, Madame President, New Saga Publishers, pages 147, 270",
"text": "A supremely happy family waved goodbye to an elderly grande dame and a namesake who had just enrolled in her first lesson in becoming a grande lady.[…]In Litchfield, Connecticut, the Hutchinson brothers rushed to tell the grande old dame her daughter was making history.",
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"ref": "1997, Alzina Stone Dale, Mystery Reader’s Walking Guide: New York, page 217",
"text": "In Shannon O’Cork’s The Murder of Muriel Lake, which is about a Writers of Mystery Convention (aka MWA?), grande mistress Muriel Lake was murdered.",
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"ref": "2011, Richard Allen Brooks, “Dame Johnson”, in From Life to Death, Xlibris, page 28",
"text": "THIS GRANDE LADY IS\nDIS-TIN-GUISH-A-BLE IN HER\nDEMURE DELIVERIES.\nDELIGHTFUL AND DAZZLING,\nTHE LADY IS DEFINITELY\nA DIVA.",
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"ref": "2013, Chet Belmonte, Meadowdale: A Saga of Confinement, AuthorHouse, page 223",
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"ref": "2016, Victor Milán, The Dinosaur Knights, Tor Books, page 101",
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"ref": "2016, Jennie Gilbert Ross, The Wrong Side of the Blanket, Archway Publishing",
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