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A negotiation for permanent settlement at the grand-ducal court failed, owing to the opposition of the courtiers.

From Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians by Nohl, Louis

At a later period he had sittings from Margrave Christopher of Baden, Ottilia his wife, and all their children, and the picture containing these portraits is still in the grand-ducal gallery at Carlsruhe.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various

The town has an Evangelical and a Roman Catholic church, a grand-ducal high school and a hospital.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various

Immediately outside this Porta Romana, sloping off a little to the left from the road to Rome, is a magnificent avenue of ilex and cypress conducting to a grand-ducal villa called the "Poggio Imperiale."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 86, February, 1875 by Various

It was certainly a difficulty, and might have puzzled less ingenious heads than grand-ducal advisers.

From Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands by Lever, Charles James