The great dukes and barons will not allow it.
"And we can hope that, like King John's noblemen, the great dukes will insist on a Magna Carta."
The fifth earl succeeded under the act of parliament as Duke of Marlborough, his mother being second daughter of the great duke.
Be merciful, great duke, to men of mould.
This war ended with the triumph of the great dukes and abbots, and the falling apart of the German empire in the end.
And he does so because he's the nephew of a great duke, who gives him the money to spend as he sees fit.
He was a great duke and a great lover, too.
The great duke Came to the bar; where to his accusations He pleaded still not guilty and alleged Many sharp reasons to defeat the law.
But let not my last note upon the great duke be a carping one.
The title grand duke or great duke is used in Western Europe and particularly in Germanic countries for provincial sovereigns.