1 However, not a single magnate had been neglected, and in conversation with his hosts he had contrived to flatter each separate one.
2 When she returned to Petersburg both the magnate and the prince were there, and both claimed their rights.
3 An aunt of my father's, and consequently a great-aunt of mine, of whom I shall have more to relate by and by, was the principal magnate of our family.
4 The chief magnates sat on high-backed chairs at a large table under the portrait of the Emperor, but most of the gentry were strolling about the room.
5 The old magnates, whom Pierre knew, sat and turned to look first at one and then at another, and their faces for the most part only expressed the fact that they found it very hot.
6 A conference took place confined to the magnates sitting at the table.
7 Old Acton, who is one of our county magnates, had his house broken into last Monday.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires 8 The point is a simple one, but the Inspector had overlooked it because he had started with the supposition that these county magnates had had nothing to do with the matter.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VII. The Adventure of The Reigate Squires