Sentence examples for dukes into from inspiring English sources

The show of more than 400 works, including portraits by Guido Reni and Anthony Van Dyck, is a refresher course on the history of this dynasty, tracing its ascent through marriage and battle from dukes into monarchs from the 16th to the end of the 18th century.

For them, John introduced the title of duke into Portugal.

Harold Zidler Jim Broadbentt), who runs the place, talks the duke into financing a show starring Satine, and Christian is sneaked in as the writer.

Manhattan Project is an interesting attempt to blend the basic game play of the original two-dimensional Duke Nukem games with the attitude of the game that brought Duke into a three-dimensional universe, Duke Nukem 3-D.

Louis IV of France took the boy-duke into his protective custody, apparently intent upon reuniting Normandy to the crown's domains, but in 945 Louis was captured by the Normans, and Richard was returned to his people.

Mr. Miller set the story in New York's Little Italy in the 1950's, turning the Duke into a gangland boss and Rigoletto into a bartender at the mob's regular hangout.

One of those things was to perform the title role in Halévy's Clari, an opera that languished for more than 150 years until Bartoli disinterred it recently, transforming its story of a humble milkmaid who captivates a duke into a topical tale of internet dating between a humble East European woman and a monied west European twerp.

Their femme-focussed cocktail offerings include the Simone de Beauvoir (Byrrh, Dolin dry vermouth, orange bitters, and tonic — summer's answer to Campari) and the Jeanne Hachette (an admixture of cinnamon tincture, Bénédictine, and Rittenhouse rye), named for the peasant girl who threw an invading Burgundian duke into a moat.

His parents rushed to be by his side, but on Saturday morning, 20 February (O.S ., the boy died, plunging the duke into 'the greatest sorrow in the world'.

Right off the bat, it's vital that a new Duke Nukem game doesn't attempt to whitewash the series' past and turn Duke into some kind of feminist icon.

This had two aims: firstly to put pressure on the Elector to fight or come to terms before Tallard arrived with reinforcements; and secondly, to ruin Bavaria as a base from which the French and Bavarian armies could attack Vienna, or pursue the Duke into Franconia if, at some stage, he had to withdraw northwards.