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Definition of Personages
1. personage [n] - See also: personage
Lexicographical Neighbors of Personages
Literary usage of Personages
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Daniel Deronda by George Eliot (1876)
"Grandcourt, the almost certain baronet, the probable peer, was to be ranged with
public personages, and was a match to be accepted on broad general grounds, ..."
2. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1891)
"Henry Hatsell, Esq., deceased ; and several Tracts, Poems, &c. of some eminent
personages of wit and humour,' 4to, London, 1765. ..."
3. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Sir Edward Burnett Tylor (1891)
"... and Monstrous Tribes of men—Fanciful explanatory Myths—Myths attached to
legendary or historical personages—Etymological Myths on names of places and ..."
4. Primitive Culture: Researches Into the Development of Mythology, Philosophy by Edward Burnett Tylor (1871)
"... Dwarfs, and Monstrous Tribes of men — Fanciful explanatory Myths — Myths
attached to legendary or historical personages—Etymological Myths on names of ..."
5. The Sacred Books of China: The Texts of Confucianism by James Legge (1899)
"... it is not meant to throw doubt on the existence of Y&o, and Vu are Shun, and
Yii as historical personages. More all historical especially does Yii stand ..."
6. Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero by William Makepeace Thackeray (1893)
"IN WHICH ALL THE PRINCIPAL personages THINK FIT TO •LEAVE BRIGHTON. CONDUCTED to
the ladies, at the Ship Inn, Dobbin assumed a jovial and rattling manner, ..."
7. A Literary History of the English People from the Renaissance to the Civil by Jean Jules Jusserand (1906)
"The great personages of the realm could recognise themselves pourtrayed as knights
of fairyland, and they found pleasure in so doing. ..."
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