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duke

Highest title in the English peerage. It originated in England in 1337, when Edward III created his son Edward, Duke of Cornwall.



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"If you can spare me five minutes," the Duke suggested.
Francesco, by proper means and with great ability, from being a private person rose to be Duke of Milan, and that which he had acquired with a thousand anxieties he kept with little trouble.
wrote, in a hand as small as possible, another note on the margin of his Horace, and then looking at the duke with the air of a man who thinks he has an idea of his own, while he is only commenting upon the idea of another, said, --
 
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