I should have had a much stronger inclination to a young lady named Mademoiselle de Cataneo, daughter to the agent from the King of Prussia, but Carrio was in love with her: there was even between them some question of marriage. ...
Arms of Adoption - This term is used in a case where the last representative of an aristocratic family adopts an outsider to assume his armorial bearings and inherit his estates. Arms of Alliance - Arms which came ...... Declinant - (dek'- lin-ant) Used in describing a serpent whose tail is represented straight downward. (Also called Declivant.) Declivant - (dek'-liv-ant) The same as DECLINANT. Decouple - (de-koup'-lay) [French.] Parted; severed. (The same as UNCOUPLED.) ...
there was a large class of nobles, who were mostly great landed proprietors living on their estates, and having under them a vast body of dependents, servants, labourers, artizans &c. there was also a numerous official class, ...
