She must also, at times, have compared the little company of select provincial Notabilities, illustrious people never known beyond their town and their lifetime, which she collected about herself and Alfieri in the house by the Arno, with the brilliant society which had assembled in her hotel in Paris.
"The Countess of Albany"
Violet Paget (AKA Vernon Lee)
In the great hall, where we dined all together,-the distinguished guests at one end of the table, the lesser Notabilities lower down, and the menials last of all,-there was ever a place reserved for sudden arrivals; and it was rare that the meal went over without some such.
"That Boy Of Norcott's"
Charles James Lever
That he had been invited showed Antonia's estimate of him still as a person of artistic significance; also, he modestly decided, the difficulty one had to make up an assemblage solely of Notabilities.
"Aurora the Magnificent"
Gertrude Hall