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Ursula was born c. 1499 as the youngest child of Wolf of Rosenfeld (d. 1518) and his wife, Anna Bombast of Hohenheim (1574), sister of Georg Bombast von Hohenheim (d. 1566), member of the Order of St. John, who served as grand prior of Germany.
Bombast von Hohenheim was a Swabian noble family from the 12th century, named for their seat, Hohenheim Castle, which they held as a fief from the Counts of Württemberg. Their coat of arms was blazoned Or on a bend azure three roundels argent [ dubious – discuss ] .
The critically lambasted romcom Along Came Polly may be the best example of this, ... his brand of cinema is one of bombast and flash. While Tobey Maguire was a pretty drab Nick Carraway, and the ...
The Secret City Saga chronicled the adventures of three heroes, Captain Glory, Nightglider and Bombast. As revealed in Jack Kirby's Secret City Saga #0 (April 1993), at some point in pre-recorded history "fifteen millennia before our own", there existed a race of beings known as "the Ninth Men".
Examples of budget-minded business leaders who brought their skills to government work abound, ... “You’re going to see a lot of bombast and rhetoric, but I suspect it’s going to yield fewer ...
Wading through the quagmire-like muddle of academia-babble and self-important bombast, one feels compelled to keep pausing to absorb sentences once, twice, three times – and still the meaning ...
An example of this is the United States Department of Defense, which won the award three times, in 1991, 1993, and 2001. For the 1991 award, the United States Department of Defense "swept the first six places in the Doublespeak top ten" [ 26 ] for using euphemisms like "servicing the target" (bombing) and "force packages" (warplanes).
Meanwhile, Sir Braggart de Bombast wants to acquire Sir Coward's lands and daughter for himself and makes him an offer. Sir Coward refuses but invites Sir Braggart and his followers to a banquet so as not to offend them, but refuses to toast Prince John. Offended, Sir Braggart challenges Sir Coward to a duel, with Lady Lobelia as the prize.