Small nondescript German States of which five-sixths of the subjects are Palace officials, and the rest charcoal burners or innkeepers

The millionaire thought he had once heard of Posen, but he wasn't sure; he rather fancied it was one of those small nondescript German States of which five-sixths of the subjects are Palace officials, and the rest charcoal burners or innkeepers.

A. Bennett, The Grand Babylon Hotel (1902), 19