highborn

How To Use highborn In A Sentence

• Aber when she runs with this poor kerl away from her family, and her first husband's family is so schrecklich mad that they try by law to take from her her boy and her money, because she has her highborn family disgraced, you see? Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed
• In America the intense desire to accumulate wealth and power was democratized; the wealthy, the highborn, the titled, the poor immigrant boy, the disappointed New England businessman, the dispossessed farmer, the unemployed young man all believed they had a right to the pots of gold at the end of the American rainbow. Bird Cloud
• She'd been careful to dye equal amounts of all three kinds of thread, too - linen for embroidering on light fabrics, sheep's wool for tapestry work on canvas, such as highborn ladies indulged in, or for embroidering woolen clothing and leather, and chirra-wool for work on heavier fabrics than linen. Owlsight
• Both he and my father believed in the efficacy of this kind of enginery, but, as the case happened, the beau chevalier was down low enough at the moment his highborn lady listened to the song. The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 4
• For they honor money; and the noble weds the baseborn, and the base the highborn; wealth has mixed the race.
• Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio. Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
• She was surrounded by thousands of onlookers, including two dozen of the so-called highborn, as well as Tanek and Sirajaldin. Breakdowns
• Livia is the highborn conniver who facilitates both intrigues, and later falls for Bianca's lowborn husband, Leantio. Theater review: Constellation Theatre's 'Women Beware Women'
• She was an accomplished flirt—but then, this was the golden age of flirting among the highborn on both sides of the Atlantic. George Washington’s First War
• Where do you go all these nights?" asked Aurelia, his unattainably highborn girlfriend, whom he often wooed by reciting Andreas Cappelanus on the art of courtly love: medieval literature having been among his best courses at Amherst. 'Palace Council'