How To Use Nobleman In A Sentence

Years afterward, the same nobleman's son who was saved from the bog was stricken with pneumonia.
At the front of the church, Nobleman had changed costume and character.
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.
A few weeks since, the young nobleman would have watched in admiration all that magnificent heraldry of the pomp of the storm.

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.
He entered with the trained dignity of a nobleman and met the duke's steely gaze.
-- 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
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.
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
Hafner and Ardea have laid bare two detestable souls, the one of an infamous usurer, half German, half Dutch; the other of a degraded nobleman, in whom is revived some ancient 'condottiere'. The French Immortals Series — Complete
He wore the clothes of a petty nobleman; grey and silver embroidered with royal blue and purple.
Near the river there are also to be found carpets of a uniform green, consisting of a short kind of Equisetum, unmixed with any other plants, which forms a "gazon," to which no nobleman's country seat can show a match. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
Who is the nobleman holding his boots out of the hotel window -- an act which the Snob very properly declined to classify as snobbish? Lost Leaders
At some point the word slipped its etymological harness and came to mean a hanger-on, someone who could get the occasional meal from a nobleman by pleasing him with good conversation, delivering messages, or doing some other job. Parasite Rex
Who would have thought such a nobleman vood turn shoeblack? The Fatal Boots
Indiana was handed out by her new adorer, the young baronet; and Eugenia was assisted by her new assailer, the young nobleman. Camilla
Some people are too late for everything but ruin; when a nobleman apologized to George III. for being late, and said, "better late than never," the king replied, "No, I say, _better never than late_. How to Succeed or, Stepping-Stones to Fame and Fortune
Since 2001, they have used the technique to put faces to many long-dead persons, including 17th century nobleman Kaj Lykke and Denmark's oldest known citizen, the Koelbjerg woman of Funen, who lived around 10,000 years ago. Face of King Svend Estridsen of Denmark revealed
Allington before the flowers of May would have come, and the crowd and the glare and the fashion and the art of the Academy’s great exhibition must therefore remain unknown to her; but she was taken to see many pictures, and among others she was taken to see the pictures belonging to a certain nobleman who, with that munificence which is so amply enjoyed and so little recognised in The Last Chronicle of Barset
Her book purports to be a nobleman's account of his love affair with a married woman. Words Of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath
'If I find it necessary to carry you away, pick-a-back, o' course I shall leave it the least bit o 'time possible afore you; but allow me to express a hope as you won't reduce me to extremities; in saying wich, I merely quote wot the nobleman said to the fractious pennywinkle, ven he vouldn't come out of his shell by means of a pin, and he conseqvently began to be afeered that he should be obliged to crack him in the parlour door.' The Pickwick papers
Â The pulp magazines ruled the racks, with the actual advent of the superhero still two decades away, a man named Johnston McCulley masterminded the adventures of a rich nobleman in fin de ciecle California who took up sword and mask to fight crime and corruption. Zorro #1 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
A Venetian nobleman, who had, on some late occasion, provoked the hatred of Orsino, had been way-laid and poniarded by hired assassins: and, as the murdered person was of the first connections, the Senate had taken up the affair. The Mysteries of Udolpho
The nobleman motioned for Ryan to mount the buckskin, which he did with slight difficulty.
The story tells of peasant girl who falls in love with a nobleman, and the disastrous consequences of that love.
On the sacred stone of Proving Ground, the nobleman faced the servant boy.
The landlord had just opened his mouth to make some remark, when he was stopped by the violent ringing of what he now called the vampyre's bell, since it proceeded from the room where the Hungarian nobleman was. Varney the vampire; or, The feast of blood. Volume 2
They had indeed arrived in the dining-parlour of the mansion, where the table was superabundantly loaded, and where the number of attendants, to a certain extent, vindicated the sarcasms of the young nobleman. The Fortunes of Nigel
Anne Sofie von Otter is a stunningly good choice as Sesto, a young nobleman who Handel wrote as either soprano or tenor, so to cast such an intelligent mezzo is an imaginative step.
The nobleman entreats the blacksmith to accompany him on a sacred mission.
A lost Vivaldi flute concerto is to be heard in full for the first time in 250 years after being rediscovered in the family archives of a Scottish nobleman who was killed at the battle of Culloden. Vivaldi flute concerto discovered
An eighth-century Lombard nobleman in Tuscany even converted his house into a monastery and took his vows, apparently to avoid having to fight the Franks.
He smiled politely as he was served food and drink, and sat quietly on a nice couch until the nobleman came out, dressed in a royal blue tunic, trimmed in black, the pants being the same as the trimming.
Nobleman putting to death his Wife is dramatic, almost terrible in its fierce, awkward realism, yet it does not rise much higher in interpretation than what our neighbours would to-day call the drame passionel. The Earlier Work of Titian
The word Sais, Colonel Temple states, [486] is Arabic and signifies a nobleman; it is applied to grooms as an honorific title, in accordance with the common method of address among the lower castes. The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV)
The two principal salt-bearers consisted of an oppidan and a colleger: the former was generally some nobleman, whose figure and personal connexions might advance the interests of the collections. The English Spy An Original Work Characteristic, Satirical, And Humorous. Comprising Scenes And Sketches In Every Rank Of Society, Being Portraits Drawn From The Life
A single township would contain no more than a fraction of the estates of a nobleman or other great landowner.
Wrapped in the blanket which had hitherto formed his only covering, he might have been the child of a nobleman or a beggar; it would have been hard for the haughtiest stranger to have assigned him his proper station in society. Oliver Twist
o 'time possible afore you; but allow me to express a hope as you won't reduce me to extremities; in saying wich, I merely quote wot the nobleman said to the fractious pennywinkle, ven he vouldn't come out of his shell by means of a pin, and he conseqvently began to be afeered that he should be obliged to crack him in the parlour door.' The Pickwick Papers
I regret to say that this young nobleman ended his leave-taking by introducing a pretty woman, with very neat hands and ankles and a most mutine physiognomy, as his sister, informing me that she was also my wife pro temp. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
My father was a nobleman in England, and my mother was a noblewoman born in France, but had moved to England when she was a little girl.
Even in locations where members of the royal family were due to stay in the home of a local gentleman, knight or nobleman, further lodgings were needed in the vicinity for the large number of other personnel in the train.
Zoretti was an Italian nobleman -- "one of those characters in whose bosom resides an unquenchable thirst of avarice" [ "_thirst_ of _avarice_" is good!], etc. The English Novel
I am of that [2514] nobleman's mind, Melancholy advanceth men's conceits, more than any humour whatsoever, improves their meditations more than any strong drink or sack. Anatomy of Melancholy
Hhis father was probably an Italian nobleman, although he liked to hint he was the offspring of a high-ranking clergyman.
He was standing in the middle of the room, dressed richly, like a duke or a nobleman.
Voltaire, despite gaining renown as the greatest living French playwright while still in his twenties, endured a long stay in the Bastille, a thorough beating by an offended nobleman's lackeys, and several periods of exile.
The element ‘athel, aethel’ literally translates as ‘noble’, so the term is often translated as ‘nobleman’, but that doesn’t carry the royal element of the original’s meaning. Archive 2006-08-01
Indiana was handed out by her new adorer, the young baronet; and Eugenia was assisted by her new assailer, the young nobleman. Camilla
Early models of steamboats include the steam-driven paddle-wheel boat built by French nobleman Marquis Claude de Jouffroy d' Abbans and tested on the Satne River in 1783.
Truth is that in Neustria, which we call Normandy," lived once a nobleman who had a beautiful daughter; every one asked her in marriage, but he always refused, so as not to part from her. A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance
That was a problem because a duke is a nobleman of the highest hereditary rank and a member of the highest grade of the British peerage.
Zoretti was an Italian nobleman -- "one of those characters in whose bosom resides an unquenchable thirst of avarice" [ "_thirst_ of _avarice_" is good!], etc. The English Novel
Her chance came in this 15 th-century tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas about a madam at a brothel who agrees to help a nobleman seduce a young virgin.
Her book purports to be a nobleman's account of his love affair with a married woman. Words Of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath
The French Revolution soon ensued, and though the nobleman kept his head, he never got his patent: not from the republic, not from Napoleon (a "usurper" to whom the legitimist de Jouffroy would not even apply for a patent), not from the restored Bourbon monarchy and not from citizen-king Louis Philippe. July 15, 1783: Marquis Invents Steamboat, Misses Esteem Boat
And as to "tufts" -- that vile distinction which independent M. P.s are so indignant at -- why, if a dissenting nobleman -- even the seventh son of an Irish peer -- were to be had for love or money, what a price he would fetch in such an Utopia of nonconformity! Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
On the sacred stone of Proving Ground, the nobleman faced the servant boy.
He is a nobleman of ancient lineage, and at the same time a Parisian communard. A Raw Youth
In a defensive capriccio of the period, the artist presents himself as a Venetian nobleman in a classical courtyard reminiscent of Sansovino's old library in Venice.
Why did I yield to love and marry the natural daughter of a great nobleman?
“A slight testimonial, sir, which I thought fit to impetrate from that worthy nobleman” (here he raised his hand to his head, as if to touch his hat), “MacCallum More.” Rob Roy
In a secret corner of his soul, Jan still pines a little for "Elissa" aka The White Stone despite knowing for sure that at Alessandra's behest and to make him Hirzig after all, the assassin killed his beloved uncle Finn who served as both "older brother and father" figure instead of the drunkard and later rebel nobleman that was Allesandra's estranged husband. Archive 2010-04-01
To her surprise, the nobleman started to laugh and he continued to laugh for some time.
The rest of his clothing was quite plain for a nobleman, as he hated his own title.
Jaques," answered the nobleman, "I do not wish to hurt your feelings, but I cannot conceal my joy. Historical Miniatures
It was always an unlikely friendship between the Italian nobleman and the then Labour leader. Times, Sunday Times
**] She always told the queen of Scots, that nothing would satisfy her but her espousing some English nobleman, who would remove all grounds of jealousy, and cement the union between the kingdoms; and she offered on this condition to have her title examined, and to declare her successor to the crown. [ The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part D. From Elizabeth to James I.
For those seeking to delve into a much-ignored corner of Arabic literature, however, it is a fascinating read, and one can't help but feel enlightened knowing the difference between qasida, marthiya, and niyaha - elegy for a nobleman, elegy for a loved one, and primordial female lament. Undefined
Her chance came in this 15 th-century tragicomedy by Fernando de Rojas about a madam at a brothel who agrees to help a nobleman seduce a young virgin.
The young lady who had so high a spirit as to have at times awakened somewhat of terror in those who were her adversaries; the young lady who had made such a fine show in male attire, and of whom it had been said that she could outleap, outfence, and outswear any man her size, had made a fine match indeed, marrying an elderly nobleman and widower, who for years had lived the life of a recluse, at last becoming hopelessly enamoured of one who might well be his youngest child. His Grace of Osmonde Being the Portions of That Nobleman's Life Omitted in the Relation of His Lady's Story Presented to the World of Fashion under the Title of A Lady of Quality
The son of the Grand Turk your son-in-law When I went to see him, as I understand his language perfectly, we had a long chat together; and after having talked of different things, he told me, _Acciam croc soler onch alla moustaph gidelum amanahem varahini oussere carbulath_? that is to say, "Have you not seen a beautiful young girl who is the daughter of Mr. Jourdain, a nobleman of Paris? Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
They call him a nobleman, but I knew that you, who see people so clearly with your penetrating eyes, would see him for what he was.
I kept too good a look-out to apprehend any sudden calamity short of capsizal, which I no longer feared, and during the watches of that long night I dreamt a hundred waking dreams of my deliverance, of my share of the treasure, of my arriving in England, quitting the sea for ever, and setting up as a great squire, marrying a nobleman's daughter, driving in a fine coach, and ending with a seat in Parliament and a stout well-sounding handle to my name. The Frozen Pirate
He was known as a swordsman the nobleman said, boasting a little; he’d picked quarrels with certain men on her behalf, and killed them. Wildfire
In 1591 Bruno returned to Italy after being invited by the Venetian nobleman Zuane Mocenigo to educate the aristocrat in mnemonics.
My poor dear Mother -- a lady born and bred -- sank by slow degrees to a cawfy-stall, which is now morgidged to the 'ilt, and my eldest Sister, a lovely and accomplished gairl, was artlessly thrown over by a nobleman, to' oom she was engaged to be married, before our reverses overtook us. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 100, February 14, 1891
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
If an old priest tells you that the body in the tomb is an undead Spanish nobleman, and you happen to be a credulous cowboy, next time, believe him! Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: Skull-Face Omnibus 1 - Robert E. Howard
The Bedroom, the title of the first playlet, is the bedroom of a well to do nobleman and his wife.
It had once been the home of a wealthy nobleman.
Allington before the flowers of May would have come, and the crowd and the glare and the fashion and the art of the Academy's great exhibition must therefore remain unknown to her; but she was taken to see many pictures, and among others she was taken to see the pictures belonging to a certain nobleman who, with that munificence which is so amply enjoyed and so little recognised in England, keeps open house for the world to see the treasures which the wealth of his family had collected. The Last Chronicle of Barset
It starts off uniquely enough, with a coven of witches proclaiming their lust for vengeance against a Polish nobleman.
He fled from Rome, hid out with a kinsman of the nobleman from whom he took his famous byname, then went to Naples and Malta, and on, ever on, from there as news of his crime caught up with him.
Both were riding horses, the villager on a fat grey pony and the nobleman on a lean sorrel.
At that period an actor, unless protected by the licence of a nobleman or gentleman, was virtually a vagrant before the law, while felonies committed by scholars were still clergyable. Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592
The successor of your countryman was a Russian nobleman, succeeded in his turn by a Polish Jew, who was ruined and discarded within three months. Court Memoirs of France Series — Complete
When one day in March, 1883, a striking young Frenchman, who said he was a nobleman, came to Little Missouri with a plan ready-made to build a community there to rival Omaha, and a business that would startle America's foremost financiers, the citizens of the wicked little frontier settlement, who thought that they knew all the possibilities of "tenderfeet" and "pilgrims" and "how-do-you-do-boys," admitted in some bewilderment that they had been mistaken. Roosevelt in the Bad Lands
Mortified by the prospect of salvaging a king's ransom in moldy books and horrified by word that repulsive local nobleman Lord Laphroig seeks to marry her Mistaya decides that the only way to run her own life is to run away from home. A Princess of Landover by Terry Brooks: Book summary
With the birth of his firstborn son, the nobleman had thrown an elaborate party for hundreds of guests.
Many scraps of traditionary lore relative to the latter nobleman must linger in and about London, where he was the idol of the populace, as well as the leader of what we should now call the "legitimist" party. Notes and Queries, Number 24, April 13, 1850
The true founder of Athenian democracy was probably Cleisthenes, a nobleman at odds with his class.
But beyond that, Halifax emerges from these friendly pages as just the cold, compromising nobleman of legend.
He had the manners of a true nobleman and always remained calm.
Artistically, the finest of the rediscoveries is The Blessing (1951), a sparkling novel of cross-cultural manners in which a refined English beauty named Grace marries a dashing French nobleman who refuses to give up his permanent mistress or casual affairs. The Fascist in the Family
His vocabulary and manner of speech sounded as though it belonged to a British nobleman, but his voice was that of a typical New York male of his age.
The nobleman goes on to host orgies, untouched by grief or remorse, until his horrible death.
Her book purports to be a nobleman's account of his love affair with a married woman. Words Of Love: Passionate Women from Heloise to Sylvia Plath
It is another anachronism to think that the author of his plays must have been a nobleman.
A retiring disposition prevented him taking a prominent political role, but he is a good example of a late Victorian nobleman dedicated to university and municipal matters.
The new renaissance and baroque galleries at the Waiters Art Museum, Baltimore, include rooms that resemble those of a seventeenth-century Dutch nobleman.
The French Revolution soon ensued, and though the nobleman kept his head, he never got his patent: not from the republic, not from Napoleon (a “usurper” to whom the legitimist de Jouffroy would not even apply for a patent), not from the restored Bourbon monarchy and not from citizen-king Louis Philippe. 1783: De Jouffrey’s Pyroscaphe « Skid Roche
Israfil," he pursued, "they say you are the son of an actress and some great nobleman, and that when you found it out, your intolerable pride made you give up your profession, and come and bury yourself alive in The Heavenly Twins
Here you are to observe, concerning Count Gualtier himselfe, that he was a most compleate person, aged litle above forty yeeres, as affable and singularly conditioned, as any Nobleman possibly could be, nor did those times affoord a Gentleman, that equalled him in all respects. The Decameron
In that context the term meant a noble person, as in nobleman, i.e. a member of the nobility. Rodney L. Taylor, Ph.D.: 'Tis The Season -- With Confucius
At noblemania.blogspot.com, he reveals the behind-the-scenes stories of his work. Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grandmothers
He was a German innholder, and the count a wealthy, influential French nobleman, with a proper warrant for searching his house. Eric or, Under the Sea
In 1759 he accepted the appointment of vice-capellmeister to Count Morzin, a Bohemian nobleman, who maintained an orchestra at his country-house. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

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