After giving the guards the cigarettes, the aristocrat began arguing with them in Russian.
The faux-aristocrat made like a visiting dignitary, saluting the officer as we crossed the bridge.
He ran Aristocrat Leisure until 2001, when he stepped down after being diagnosed with cancer.
Imagine you are an aristocrat an aristocrat who has loaned a very important painting to a national museum.
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Is there room in a democracy for an aristocrat like Coriolanus who refuses to play the popularity game?
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They ultimately share expenses with an austere, cultured widow (Joan Plowright) and a gorgoeus, bored aristocrat (Polly Walker).
When the guards disappeared into an office to discuss the situation, I asked the aristocrat what he'd said.
Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg, an aristocrat who lives in a Bavarian castle, admitted breaching standards but denied deliberately cheating.
Stevens, who plays aristocrat Matthew Crawley in the ITV period drama, will appear in The Heiress from October.
The son of an aristocrat, St Francis of Assisi spurned a life of luxury to live with and for the poor.
Since Hutchence's death in 1997, she was linked to various men, including singer Finley Quaye and aristocrat Samuel Robinson-Horley.
"Nobody's Child, " 1921: This stars Gys as a woman who is raped by an evil aristocrat, with tragic consequences.
He was a French aristocrat who wanted the Olympics to transcend nationalist sentiment.
The four books, which were published between 1924 and 1928, center on the story of a British aristocrat Christopher Tietjens.
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Keith, who played snobbish aristocrat Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in the sitcom To The Manor Born, will be joined by Flog It!
She would meet people head on whether a patronizing don, a knife-waving dervish, a corrupt Turkish official, or an effete English aristocrat.
It took thousands of peasants beyond the Agora to support the work of one intellectual aristocrat such as Plato or Aristophanes.
You'll feel like the guest of an aristocrat in the four individually decorated rooms with their antique tiles and plush antiques.
Perhaps emboldened by its ability to keep IGTat bay in its native Australia, Aristocrat expects to win its Nevada license this summer.
The Spanish made a point of burning it in 1625, after a ten-month siege led by the brilliant Genoese aristocrat Ambrogio Spinola.
Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham Fiennes, an aristocrat whose lineage can be traced back to Charlemagne, originally hoped to emulate the career of his father.
In 1760, a young aristocrat from the scarp-foot village of Wiston named Charles Goring decided to add his own layer of history to the Chanctonbury earthworks.
Readers learn about the sound of a rippling ship's sail, the look of a stand-alone wooden confessional, the feel of an aristocrat's cloth-of-silver gown.
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When the faux-aristocrat informed them that there was no way he was driving back, the guard pulled out a gun and asked for cigarettes.
Ernst vom Rath, a junior legation secretary, took Grynszpan into an office, whereupon the diminutive refugee produced the handgun and shot the German aristocrat twice.
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Coubertin was a French aristocrat with a passionate interest in education.
He was married to an aristocrat and much concerned with genealogy.
However, Americans with no or inadequate health insurance do have an alternative before then to waiting for an altruistic aristocrat to ante up: they can beg.
Tom Reiss' biography of French aristocrat Alex Dumas, The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, won the Pulitzer Prize for biography.
The aristocrat fetched cigarettes from the car, where the magician was excitedly explaining the latest giant illusion he was planning, oblivious to the predicament we were in.
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