Sentence examples for he was styled from inspiring English sources

Zorzi (the Venetian form of Giorgio) da Castelfranco (from Castelfranco) is how he was styled in the rare mentions of him in contemporary documents.

For his eloquence he was styled "the black Daniel Webster," but in 1850 he criticized Webster sharply for his acquiescence concerning the Fugitive Slave Act.

The eldest son and heir apparent of the 3rd duke of Rutland, he was styled the marquess of Granby by courtesy.

They meant that the Roman Caesar was not the lord of all, as he was styled by his worshippers, but that only Christ was Lord (Revelation 17:17).

Before he became a Heller customer he was styled a little too tight, but he has always been a good dresser, according to Heller.

But right now, in avatar form, he was styled in tan leathers and a rocket pack, and he was figuring out how to make that giant door open and shut on command.

Adam Falckenhagen (1697 1754), or Adamo Falkenhagen, as he is styled here, was a German lutenist and composer.

He is styled Colman of Lindisfarne to distinguish him from numerous other saints named Colman who are listed in the Irish martyrologies.

He's styled himself as another Ronald Reagan, folksy (in a cruder, New Jersey way); a John McCain, blunt and plain spoken; a technocrat like Mitt Romney; even a "uniter" like George W. Bush.

He is styled by confidants as a cross between a ruthless, reformist autocrat akin to Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew and a tech-giant "disrupter" (Silicon Valley will feature prominently among his stops).

1. Richard Branson, Tycoon An unexpected and, to some of our panel, controversial number one, the founder of Virgin Group (or "the smiley man with the beard", as he's styled on his blog) is a bigger force in social media than many people realise.