How To Use Noble In A Sentence

  • I again affirm that I need make no apology for attaching my name to that of one so worthy the esteem of his co-dogs, ay, and co-cats too; for in spite of the differences which have so often raised up a barrier between the members of his race and ours, not even the noblest among us could be degraded by raising a "mew" to the honour of such a thoroughly honest dog. The Adventures of a Dog, and a Good Dog Too
  • The heroic deeds of this brave and noble Irishman have brought honour and glory to his native land.
  • 'En esta capilla esta enterrado el noble hidalgo el Lic. Fray Luis de Leon
  • The nobles of his court believed he had simply gone away from them for a time to meditate. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
  • He is never alone that is in the company of noble thoughts. 
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  • Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
  • Persons thus co-opted by the Senate were liable to the burden of the praetorship , and likewise those whom the Emperor ennobled, unless special exemption were granted.
  • England's wars, waged successfully by humble bowmen as well as knights and noblemen, created among all ranks a self-confidence that warmed English hearts.
  • That was a trick you learned early, from the regimental bonzes who instructed noblemen's sons. Do you ever read writing?
  • It was a noble situation — noble as the ancient hau tree, the size of a house, where she sat as if in a house, so spaciously and comfortably house-like was its shade furnished; noble as the lawn that stretched away landward its plush of green at an appraisement of two hundred dollars a front foot to a bungalow equally dignified, noble, and costly. ON THE MAKALOA MAT
  • Numps has sent for me to see poor little Greek and Latin hobble to the altar, but, 'tis a million to one, if our noble baronet does not whisk you there before her. Camilla: or, A Picture of Youth
  • He ennobled everything he touched with his brush or his pencil.
  • The rest of the book is a rampant cornucopia of sickness and murders as the noble hero, Dr. Alex Cross, attempts to find Casanova's victims, hidden deep in Casanova's sex caves. It's A Good Thing He Can't Blow My Mind
  • In a strange way she seemed ennobled by the grief she had experienced.
  • The cavalry were too numerous to be maintained solely by the king; rather, each of the seven great town-chiefs had to support, in his own sector of the capital, ten noble warriors and their entourages.
  • Eh, Brother, don't you mean any and all capitalist running dogs are smelly, of which the Noble House and the House of Chen are chief and dung heavy?" he said banteringly. Noble House
  • He is one of a platoon of French intellectuals praising the game as a noble art compared with the selfish showmanship of football. Times, Sunday Times
  • It is unknown to men of noble mind; it does not lead to heaven; on earth it causes disgrace, O Arjuna. THE DICE MAN
  • It is a speech that cannot fail to thrill the reader for its noble and patriotic eloquence.
  • At the front of the church, Nobleman had changed costume and character.
  • It was the duty of her noble hosts to lay on entertainments as she went about the country.
  • The banquet hall was bright and cheerful, full of nobles and lords looking dignified and regal.
  • But if lawyers and solicitors wish themselves to be identified as men of noble standing and exemplariness then they deserve the kind of reverence they will yield from the public should they decide to embrace Karpal Singh's call to sieve out bad hats. Malaysiakini :: News
  • Likewise, the status of the father determined that of the offspring; the children of a noblewoman who married a commoner would not be noble.
  • Many South Africans are apparently wary of what they see as ignoble intentions by profit-hungry American drug companies.
  • The valiant one and his noble steed hiked up to the hill where the castle was.
  • Noblemen weren't supposed to be afraid of such things, but that didn't change the fact that the deep, caliginous mist was just plain creepy. Mistborn
  • As you may be aware I am the Speaker of the House of Commons and it is incumbent upon me to honour and uphold the noble traditions of the House.
  • In the past, noble lords and rich men - when they could get a licence from the Crown - built themselves a living larder in the shape of a deer park with high fences and walls.
  • Have clean and pure mind, noble sentiment; in each patient with a occupation smile; do not expect anything in return just offer in their heart.
  • My - dear - Count!" says I, astonished, and everyone stopped talking; the Queen looked pop-eyed, and even Albert left off prosing to the noble corpse beside him. Fiancée
  • The noblest work of God?Man, Who found it out?Man. 
  • All good, noble things are religious and moral in nature, but have nothing to do with religion. Dr T.P.Chia 
  • Peter succeeded to leadership of the movement after the murder of Asen by boyar (i.e., noble) conspirators. G. The Second Bulgarian Empire
  • It is not true suffering ennobles the character; happiness does that sometimes, but suffering, for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive. 
  • They are never alone accompanied by noble thoughts. 
  • Above the centre gateway, between the noble wings of the propyla which flank it, is a representative emblem of Osiris, in the shape of a splendid shield of the sun, a half-sphere of gold, from which extend wings for many yards, each feather glittering with precious stones. The pillar of fire, or, Israel in bondage
  • Races, which was written by a number of MGM contract writers including George Seaton (who later went on to write and direct Miracle on 34th Street), seems to me to soften the Brothers up quite a bit more; Groucho's less of a * schnorrer*, Chico has a real job (working at the sanitarium), as does Harpo (a jockey?!), and their goals are even nobler: they don't just want to help out young lovers, they want to save a failing sanitarium from the evil businessman. I Had that Same Horse When I Had My Eyes Examined
  • Our noble captain did not get rid of his angry looks for some days, and actually wept at what he termed the treacherous conduct of the Admiralty. A Sailor of King George
  • It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
  • The recently ennobled Lord Farmer has vivid memories of childhood. Times, Sunday Times
  • We're experts at turning a noble fiasco into a story about fortitude and stoicism.
  • For Life Nobles and knights, only the person originally granted the arms bears them undifferenced. Concordance A Terran Empire concordance
  • He was ennobled in 1774 and put in charge of irregular forces.
  • Charity dinners and celebrity dos for a cause are a trend these days - what better way to raise a big sum for a noble cause?
  • That state of having been purified is called cessation, which is the third noble truth. Becoming Enlightened
  • That their designment halts: a noble ship of Venice Othello, the Moore of Venice
  • If that was not enough, nobles of both countries thronged the hall.
  • The angel-noble of Henry VII, valued at ten shillings, appears to have been the coin given; it was in common use and not made especially for this purpose. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
  • It would be sounded high that he debased human nature, which has a "cognation," so the reverend and learned Doctor Cudworth calls it, with the divine; that the soul of man, immaterial and immortal by its nature, was made to contemplate higher and nobler objects than this sensible world, and even than itself, since it was made to contemplate God and to be united to Him. Letters to Sir William Windham and Mr. Pope
  • Mascots are some of the most noble, dedicated, and stout-hearted performers.
  • They are very nice examples of the gothic form, employing noble materials, good colour and detailing, and in edifying proportions. Solemn Mass at Ss. Gregory and Augustine Oratory, St. Louis Abbey
  • Mr. Noble says he would shoot down any suggestion that Interpol should head up an international antiterrorist squad. Making Interpol Relevant Again
  • There can be little doubt that Head's noble savage existed as a conceptual foil for Europe's ignoble civilization.
  • General Assembly of the Kirk, his acquaintance with the nobleman who held the office of Lord High Commissioner forced him more into public than suited either his views or inclinations. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
  • His father had inherited the Acton family baronetcy and his mother was the heiress of a German nobleman, the Duke of Dalberg.
  • He was a noble son of the earth and his death was an irreparable loss to mankind.
  • “Hurr”; the Latin “ingenuus,” lit. freeborn; metaph. noble as opp. to a slave who is not expected to do great or good deeds. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • However, Frank's furtive visits to strange bars frequented by men in ascots and Cathy's friendship with Raymond, a noble black gardener, set the neighbourhood gossips tittering.
  • The noblest work of God?Man, Who found it out?Man. 
  • The earl is the vera soul of honour, and cares nae mair for warld's gear than a noble hound for the quest of a foulmart; but as for his son, he was like to brazen us a 'out -- ourselves, Steenie, The Fortunes of Nigel
  • A few weeks since, the young nobleman would have watched in admiration all that magnificent heraldry of the pomp of the storm.
  • Younger sons of noble families proverbially come off second best in this country, but if one of them found his only 'appanage' was a mine, he would surely with some justice make a remonstrance. Some Private Views
  • She has all those additional advantages as nobleness of birth and deportment which I want.
  • Her track list doesn't add up to anything more than a desire, however noble, to cover folk songs.
  • Fairly simple, it's a noble who promised a necklace to someone but the maker double-crossed him, took his money, and kept the necklace, claiming he sold it to the man and the man had lost it.
  • They have always a mosque joining to them, and the body of the hann is a most noble hall, capable of holding three or four hundred persons, the court extremely spacious, and cloisters round it, that give it the air of our colleges. Letters of the Right Honourable Lady M--y W--y M--e
  • The hereditary king of Hawaii is calling for 100% pure-blood Hawaiians of noble descent to come forward and form a new government.
  • The combination of noble materials is further enhanced by a superb dial finish featuring a transfer printed glossy white honeycomb décor to recall the dodecagonal shape of the watch. AME Info Latest News
  • It left Bradford coach Brian Noble fuming and many others raising questions about the validity of the player's actions.
  • Rome, all noble men, whom the king did do balm and gum with many good gums aromatic, and after did do cere them in sixty fold of cered cloth of sendal, and laid them in chests of lead, because they should not chafe nor savour, and upon all these bodies their shields with their arms and banners were set, to the end they should be known of what country they were. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • In orations of praise, and in invectives, the fancy is predominant, because the design is not truth, but to honour or dishonour, which is done by noble or by vile comparisons. Chapter VIII. Of the Virtues Commonly Called Intellectual, and Their Contrary Defects
  • A herald announced her as the Countess of Andover, then she descended into the crowd of dancing nobles.
  • Since then, the office has always been held by one of noble or royal birth. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
  • We're all expected to be there, and all the nobles will be there - lords, ladies, counts, viscounts, dukes, duchesses, barons, baronesses, and marquises; all of them.
  • In reply to the first part of the objection, we would observe, that among all uncivilized people rites and customs prevail, which are abhorent to the better instructed christian; and with regard to the latter we would ask, what can be expected to result from a system which so degrades and brutifies a class of men, repressing everything that is noble and generous in them, and encouraging the growth of all that is vicious and mischievous in their merely animal nature. God's image in ebony : being a series of biographical sketches, facts, anecdotes, etc., demonstrative of the mental powers and intellectual capacities of the Negro race, by edited
  • Florence write and establish their final condemnation of noblesse living by rapine, those 'Ordinamenti della Giustizia,' which practically excluded all idle persons from government, and determined that the priors, or leaders of the State, should be priors, or leaders of its arts and productive labour; that its head 'podesta' or 'power' should be the standard-bearer of justice; and its council or parliament composed of charitable men, or good men: "boni viri," in the sense from which the French formed their noun 'bonte.' Val d'Arno
  • The King would awaken and the nobles of the realm would compete to take away his chamberpot, remove his nightshirt, and dress him with his britches. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Status Symbols and the American Express Black Card
  • Our writings serve as the academy's benchmarks, the ethical touchstones for the noblest of professions.
  • ‘A gentleman never turns away from the opportunity to perform brave and noble deeds,’ Conor said.
  • To the left we had the Champs-Elysees with their noble elms whose terminus is marked, off yonder on an elevation, by the great triumphal arch of Napoleon in the Place de L'Etoile. France Through Canadian Eyes
  • Here was worn the "barret," of scarlet or white, the rich brown jacket and red sash of the peculiar costumes of the Basque and Bearnais peasants -- a fine race of men, and one, too, historically noble. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
  • This was a heavily populated region of numerous towns and nucleated villages, with dispersed patterns of landholding, small parishes and manors, and political power shared between the nobles, rich merchants, and a prosperous gentry.
  • ‘One would expect such deportment from scalawags, but not you noble nabobs of Wall Street,’ wrote Cannell.
  • Over the years I have become more and more aggravated by the way Americans butcher the English language, by the way members of the media misuse terms, by the charlatanical ways in which corrupt persons in power desecrate noble words such as "democracy" which, coming from their mouths, is the equivalent of the word "love" emanating from the mouth of a whore. Award Winning author, journalist and humorist, Burton H. Wolfe is Interviewed
  • Calvinism found support from the lower classes, lesser nobles and town leaders.
  • Either way, they made this noble symphony sound bombastic and sometimes comical. Times, Sunday Times
  • It still gratifies us today to read George Orwell: we feel ennobled by him.
  • The Baroness (as she was known after her marriage to a shifty nobleman) and her friends worshipped novelty, inappropriateness, audacity, not piously but with ferocious abandon.
  • Then further explain how none of our values are so noble as not to be easily twistable into demagogy, which is why he welcomes the rigorous questions into his exercise of leadership in this campaign. Obama: "I Deeply Regret" Offending Anyone
  • The total effect of Aristofie's thought is to ennoble humanity and to increase personal responsibility.
  • He feels as he discusses the power of myth that he is able to make people experience both terrible and noble deeds.
  • Won't we make a bloodthirsty gang of roble ned men -- er, noble red men! Frank Merriwell at Yale
  • Sincerity, a deep genuine, heart-felt sincerity, is a trait of true and noble manhood. 
  • An honest God is the noblest work of man. 
  • I’m an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals. Steve Jobs 
  • I certainly believe that the blogosphere should advance and ennoble the public debate - not coarsen it.
  • In pt ii. of the _Niebelungen Lied_, he sees his sons and liegemen struck down without making the least effort to save them, and is as unlike the Attila of history as a "hector" is to the noble Trojan "the protector of mankind. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama, Vol. 1 A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook
  • Inasmuch as you are more noble than others by birth, so should you be more noble than they by virtues," adding that, "few great men have gained renown for prowess and virtue who did not entertain love for some dame or damoiselle. Historical Tales, Vol. 6 (of 15) The Romance of Reality. French.
  • Merchant hath founded so many chargeable Lectures, and some of them also which are Mathematicall, tending to the aduancement of Marine causes; I nothing doubted of your Lordships forwardnes in settling and establishing of this Lecture: but rather when your Lordship shall see the noble and rare effects thereof, you will be heartily sory that all this while it hath not bene erected. The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
  • Although basically a noble failure from the sound of it, good things have come of the attempt—for example, "The Colbert Report," where the gentle, soft-spoken Brit rose hyperactively to the occasion. Perfecting The Toaster
  • `Not pretending to be what I'm not: noble, or worthy of exemption. FAMILY PICTURES
  • Kids ob cheezpeeps aer born intu a noble class ob honorary kittenhood. cweenmj says: WAIT!!!!! - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
  • Like Nero, his family had ties to the Legion, but he was not of noble blood, unlike Nero, and could not become a centurion.
  • I quailed at the prospect, but soon saw in it a stimulating, even noble challenge.
  • I regarded _tragic_ knowledge as the most beautiful luxury of our culture, as its most precious, most noble, most dangerous kind of prodigality; but, nevertheless, in view of its overflowing wealth, as a justifiable _luxury_. The Case Of Wagner, Nietzsche Contra Wagner, and Selected Aphorisms.
  • The nobler arts of magic, astrology, alchymy, necromancy, &c., were equally in vogue in this age with that of the infernal art proper. The Superstitions of Witchcraft
  • They are a tall, noble people who move with grace and dignity, covering the ground, however rough, with apparently effortless ease.
  • Kind, conscientious and hard-working, Eddie was a man of many noble qualities who commanded the height of regard and respect among his many friends in England.
  • Bassanio, a noble but poor Venetian, asks his friend Antonio, a rich merchant, for 3,000 ducats to enable him to prosecute fittingly his suit of the rich heiress Portia at Belmont.
  • For we recognize that the powers made possible by biomedical science can be used for non-therapeutic or ignoble purposes, serving ends that range from the frivolous and disquieting to the offensive and pernicious.
  • The argument echoed historian G.M. Trevelyan's quip about the French Revolution: ‘if the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.’
  • The throne was no longer at issue; now she was merely an eccentric noblewoman running from an unprincipled enemy.
  • VENTURA - Barnes & Noble in Ventura is hosting book fairs next week to benefit local groups. Ventura County Star Stories
  • The next morning riders were sent out to call the minor nobles of the west to arms.
  • A light damask curtain is found to have been saturated with port wine; a ditto chair-cushion has been doing duty as a dripping-pan to a cluster of wax-lights; a china shepherdess, having been brought into violent collision with the tail of a raging lion on the mantel-piece, has reduced the noble beast to the short-cut condition of a Scotch colley. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, November 6, 1841,
  • Ye have known the deeds that have raised this war between me and you, sons of Adnan; and if I do not appease myself among you, never may I be called ennobled in my parents! Antar :
  • It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest , but there is seldom any money in them. 
  • Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. 
  • So much for the noble art. The Sun
  • Without assuming noble or self-sacrificing motive, each individual has, nevertheless, become a microcosm of the whole.
  • Rome, all noble men, whom the king did do balm and gum with many good gums aromatic, and after did do cere them in sixty fold of cered cloth of sendal, and laid them in chests of lead, because they should not chafe nor savour, and upon all these bodies their shields with their arms and banners were set, to the end they should be known of what country they were. Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
  • A gentleman or a person of noble birth to be seen perspiring wasn't recommended.
  • We all, blushed, like respectable noblewomen should, but we waved back.
  • He entered with the trained dignity of a nobleman and met the duke's steely gaze.
  • SAMANEA SAMAN is a truly noble tropical tree. It has a sturdy, smooth, pale grey trunk mostly divided near its base into a few hefty branches that grow almost horizontally to support its monstrous parasol canopy.
  • The French call a particular plant fungus the pourriture noble, or “noble rot,” for its influence on the character of certain wines, and the Surrealist poet Leon-Paul Fargue is said to have honored Camembert cheese with the title les pieds de Dieu—the feet of God. On Food and Cooking, The Science and Lore of the Kitchen
  • It also tells stories of ancient clans and warrior nobles about which we know little, and there's the language itself, as well as the onnagata tradition, with men playing female characters. Evening Standard - Home
  • Her son and successor, Paul I, was a nasty autocrat who ruled only five years before he was murdered in his bedroom by a group of nobles. StarTribune.com rss feed
  • The script is by Julian Fellowes, probably the first Oscar-winning writer to have been ennobled — he was made a life peer by being given a barony in the honors list published in November. Peerless Titles
  • d fon of Donogh, Ton of Brien Ruadh and fe of the O'Briens of Ive-Bloid or Ara, and IV Donal O'Grady chief of the tribe called leal-Dongaile, with feme other nobles of dif« - Collectanea de Rebus Hibernicis
  • So he bore with his injurious usage, saying to himself, Verily insolence and evil-speaking are causes of perdition and cast into confusion, and it is said, ‘The insolent is shent and the ignorant doth repent; and whose feareth, to him safety is sent’: moderation marketh the noble and gentle manners are of gains the grandest. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  • Although accusing someone of working in Starbucks might be taken as an insult in the US, in Italy where the word barista originates it denotes a bartender, which of course is a noble and ancient profession. My First 'Hate' Email: A 'Chiropractic Doctor' Writes
  • These various cries of the assailants, contradicting each other, showed their irresolution; while Richard, his foot still on the archducal banner, glared round him with an eye that seemed to seek an enemy, and from which the angry nobles shrunk appalled, as from the threatened grasp of a lion. The Talisman
  • She was just a little offended by the implications in his words and was suddenly bored with his arrogance and decided to get rid all the noble-sounding, diplomatic and politic speeches.
  • Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives. 
  • Core - shell structured noble metal nanocomposites processes high stability , excellently catalytic and optical properties.
  • His noble example inspired the rest of us to greater efforts.
  • a curtain over this scene, from that philogyny which is in us, and proceed to matters which, instead of dishonouring the human species, will greatly raise and ennoble it. The History of the Life of the Late Mr Jonathan Wild the Great
  • How can one person, no matter how noble, confess the sins of another?
  • Most spectacular in this period, however, were the marriages of European nobles to the heiresses of American millionaires.
  • They did so without hope of further profit and out of a sense of noblesse oblige.
  • Ornatus sees his mistress asleep and in a kind of deshabille, employs a noble go-between, Adellena The English Novel
  • We have much pleasure in naming this noble Physa after Dr. Newcomb, the distinguished American conchologist, who has contributed so much, by his researches in the Sandwich Islands, to our knowledge of the genus Helicter or Achatinella. The Journals of John McDouall Stuart
  • In writing this moving, harrowing account he has done them a noble service. Times, Sunday Times
  • At a greater distance from the throne are the inferior nobles, also standing in the same posture of profound reverence.
  • Coming new year, what's nobleness gift for your mother, wife, lover and all of good friends.
  • You Artemisians may go on with your noble experiment at civilizing mankind. A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
  • He is the only person entitled to display the undifferenced shield of arms, i.e. without any marks of dependency upon any other noble house.
  • This enraged many U.S. expansionists, not least Thomas Benton, who called the concession “a gratuitous and unaccountable sacrifice” that had “dismembered the valley of the Mississippi, mutilated two of our noblest rivers, and brought a foreign boundary to the neighborhood of New Orleans.” A Country of Vast Designs
  • Upon this noblest youth -- so far in advance of his rude and turbulent time -- throw a horror that no philosophy, birth, nor training can resist -- one of those weights beneath which all humanity bows shuddering; cast over him a stifling dream, where only the soul can act, and the limbs refuse their offices; have him pushed along by Fate to the lowering, ruinous catastrophe; and you see the dramatic chainwork of a part which he who would enact Hamlet must fulfil. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866
  • Mechthild's use of metaphors drawn from courtly life led earlier commentators to speculate that she might have come from noble stock. RIDDLE ME THIS
  • They attach themselves as a rule to some great noble or boyar, and call themselves by his name. Dracula
  • It was a good thing that Allan had the true noble morals and the principles which prevented him from ever taking advantage of Chase's loyalty.
  • •Bacchus, I (hall not pretend to determine: but as the noble crop - ping, mentioned above, took. .place after dinner, there is fome reafqn to think Bacchus had his Sporting Magazine
  • -- Captain A. Carlton, late of the Light Dragoons, has just succeeded to the title and estates of his great grandfather, the late Earl of Castlemere, which title had lain dormant for several years, in consequence of the only son of the late nobleman never having assumed the title, and died in obscurity abroad, and we, learn that the new Earl is about to lead to the hymenial altar the beautiful Miss Vellenaux A Novel
  • One of them was a noble bird, such as I never had seen before, of very fine bright plumage, and larger than a missel-thrush. Lorna Doone
  • Give me a position, and I'll find you an expert to support it - and not just an expert but one with an institutional affiliation sounding so dignified it could make a nobleman genuflect.
  • The monarchy was now dominant, the nobles largely feudalized, the clergy (with royal grants) powerful, the bourgeoisie vigorous (fisheries and cattle raising), the yeoman class strong and independent. E. Scandinavia
  • Its ranks are open to all young men of noble birth regardless of where they live within the Empire.
  • Pixodarus had seized power from his sister, Ada, and soon married his daughter to a Persian nobleman named Orontobates, who took over rule of Caria at the recent death of Pixodarus. Alexander the Great
  • Indeed, the effect of Cornwallis's kindly but unsmiling expression was much modified because his wig was slightly awry; Cornwallis still affected a horsehair bobwig of the sort that was now being relegated by fashion to noblemen's coachmen, and today it had a rakish cant that dissipated all appearance of dignity. Hornblower And The Hotspur
  • Blum and Noble examined DNA samples from the brains of corpses of thirty-five alcoholics and thirty-five nonalcoholics.
  • Their talk, he thought, exhibited 'manly beauty', so he believed himself listening to three young noblemen. The Times Literary Supplement
  • His unselfish and noble virtues have earned him huge respect across all shades of political opinion.
  • The minstrels, bedecked in red doublets and white hose, played upbeat tunes to which gardens of brightly clad nobles danced merrily.
  • The noble art of self-defence in all its aesthetic glory will always draw polite applause from appreciative audiences. The Sun
  • To be sure, the laws against recusants were not uniformly enforced; papistry in favourites and friends of the king was winked at, and the rich noblemen, who were able to pay fines, did not suffer much. English Travellers of the Renaissance
  • But the difference of age made no difference to the friendship which grew up between them in Oxford, a friendship only less enduring and close than that between Clough and Matthew Arnold, which has been "eternized," to use a word of Fulke Greville's, by the noble dirge of "Thyrsis. A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1
  • In his view, the soul is far more noble than the hylomorphic account of Aristotle implies, at least as Valla understands that account. Lorenzo Valla
  • This noble mission, however, does not currently apply to people who seek only subjective perfection.
  • Daemon idly wondered how she could move in all those layers of clothes, though her finery was proof that she was truly a noble.
  • Noblemen founded stables and became interested in breeding thoroughbred racehorses.
  • However, she had to continue her façade of being a noble lady, so she simply forced a false smile onto her face.
  • For most of its nations, the tomato was such an exotic fruit that it deserved a noble title.
  • Choose two themes from Smith's chapter on Buddhism for instance, anicca, tanha, or the Four Noble Truths. World Religions Study: Buddhism
  • Only the king could appoint people to it and normally only princes of the blood (the most senior nobles), senior prelates and magnates were allowed to join.
  • The noble art of self-defence in all its aesthetic glory will always draw polite applause from appreciative audiences. The Sun
  • A note from the other world will strike upon the chord of my being, and the spirit which has been dozing within me awakens and fiercely beats at its bars, demanding some nobler thought, some higher aspiration, some wider action, a more saturnalian pleasure, something more than the peasant life can ever yield. My Brilliant Career
  • However, thermocouple with noble metal such as platinum and rhodium is used as high - temperature sensor currently.
  • How does one live a life of noble reclusion in the real world?
  • For those who want to leave their cars on the sidelines and try out something a more racy, a £20 donation will get you a spin in a Porsche or Noble.
  • The sodium ion has the same electron configuration as neon, the noble gas immediately before it on the Periodic Table.
  • When the pair fought their hearts out for the honour of winning the World Boxing Council's featherweight belt, they showed us - amidst the blood and the brutality - all that is noble, honest and decent about the sweet science of bruising.
  • Carlo Mario da Buonaparte, as he called himself, married the fourteen-year-old Letizia, also of distant Italian noble extraction, but from a family that had heavily intermarried with the squireens of the wild interior.
  • Thus the impure sublunary fire conveys neither heat nor light, but as it kindles upon some earthly materials of wood, stubble, or the like; but the nobler and celestial fire in the body of the sun, that works all these effects by a communication of its own virtue, without the interposal of those culinary helps: it affords flame and light, and warmth and all, without fuel. Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VI.
  • We know that neither success nor suffering ennobles people.
  • For, besides these lacrymatories, notable lamps, with vessels of oils, and aromatical liquors, attended noble ossuaries; and some yet retaining a vinosity and spirit in them, which, if any have tasted, they have far exceeded the palates of antiquity. Hydriotaphia, or Urn-burial
  • His wife Françoise was the most beautiful and accomplished woman of her time, the "perle de noblesse, de gentilesse, et de savoir;" and moreover possessed of the rich inheritance of her uncle Bertrand de Dinan, of the Brittany & Its Byways
  • Obviously, the hero needed a noble name and Alexander the Great suggested itself straight away.
  • He answered the question in large part by prescribing a diet of the noblest foods to be eaten before the child is conceived.
  • After a century of "noble savage" idealization, the peasantry's violence during the French Revolution had reawakened fears of more "ignoble" savagery.
  • When the ‘great fear’ erupted in many parts of France in 1789, the peasants who revolted made no distinction between noble and commoner lords.
  • Deal 12 noble cards face-up in a row and put the cardboard guillotine at the start.
  • Then had stalwart Gernot of Burgundy nigh done brave Iring unto death, but that he sprang away from the prince (nimble enow he was), and slew eftsoon four noble henchmen of the Burgundians from Worms across the Rhine. The Nibelungenlied
  • The noble cavalier characterized," "& a rebellious caviller cauterized," 1644 _or_ 5. Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters
  • The defeat of the nobles in 1488 probably gave Charles an inflated opinion of his own ability and may well have contributed to his belief that he could be a successful adventurer in northern Italy.
  • The only blemish on such noble intentions was the absence yesterday of ordinary people.
  • There were no wall frescoes in here, because the walls of the most noble room in the house would have been hung with silk. Times, Sunday Times
  • Queen of Argos, daughter of Tyndareus, sister of those two noble sons of Zeus, who dwell in the flame-lit firmament amid the stars, whose guerdon high it is to save the sailor tossing on the sea. Electra

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