How To Use Noblesse In A Sentence
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You need to scroll down until you reach the Viceroy of Redonda's announcement of this year's annual prize, a list of the noblesse of that Kingdom, and the patent for the ennobling of Claudio Magris as the Duke of Seconda Mano.
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Sir, said Sir Lamorak, now I understand your knighthood, it may not be false that all men say, for of your bounty, noblesse, and worship, of all knights ye are peerless, and for your courtesy and gentleness I showed you ungentleness, and that now me repenteth.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Something else which is expected of him; the most curious manifestation of noblesseoblige.
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He started to give an absurd speech about how offended he was by the word "sandbagged" and how there was such a thing as courtesy and "noblesse oblige" and that the board deserved to hear the school district out.
Save John Swett
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They are proud to transmit their title untarnished to their descendants, are ready to make serious sacrifices in its behalf, to exercise the rigid self-denials of family control for its sake, and to engrave the motto of "noblesse oblige" on their hearts in order to sustain it; but they bitterly complain that without the majorat, and the transmission of outward, visible supports in land and houses to strengthen it, the empty sound carries little weight.
The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.)
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The French have another word, noblesse oblige, which is translated as those who enjoy the advantage of wealth and power have an obligation to protect those who do not have these advantages.
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The expression "noblesse oblige" is difficult to define but its implications are precise and clear.
Philip S. Hench - Banquet Speech
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From that moment she felt as strongly as any Gorgie ever felt the fine sentiment expressed in the phrase, _noblesse oblige_; and to hear her say, 'I'm a duke's chavi
Aylwin
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Comme le soin de la ciuilite la plus raffinee ne doit pas beaucoup trauailler les esprits des Artisants & de la lie du peuple enuers les Grands & les Magistrats; aussi est-il raisonnable qu'ils ayent soin de leur rendre de l'honneur: de mesme il est a propos que la Noblesse les traitte [sic] doucement & les epargne, & qu'elle euite toute sorte de superbe.
George Washington's Rules of Civility
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Also Merlin let make there a bed, that there should never man lie therein but he went out of his wit, yet Launcelot de Lake fordid that bed through his noblesse.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Red heels remained part of the formal wear at the French court for the Royal family and the noblesse presentee, they can be seen in the portaits I have posted below.
Archive 2008-05-18
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Russian Noblesse has little or nothing of what we call aristocratic feeling -- little or nothing of that haughty, domineering, exclusive spirit which we are accustomed to associate with the word aristocracy.
Russia
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So do think this over carefully over the weekend-especially for the sake of the company-noblesse oblige and all that!
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For the rest, Non-jurant Priests, and the repression of them, will distract the King's conscience; Emigrant Princes and Noblesse will force him to double-dealing: there must be veto on veto; amid the ever-waxing indignation of men.
The French Revolution
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Your noblesse did not deserve punishment; but to degrade is to punish.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12)
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Some few of these are good villas, belonging to the noblesse of this county; and even some of the bourgeois are provided with pretty lodgeable cassines; but in general, they are the habitations of the peasants, and contain nothing but misery and vermin.
Travels through France and Italy
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His public image was the personification of noblesse oblige, a wholesome and vigorous young president with a beautiful wife and young children.
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Madame de Staël, daughter of M. Necker, is now at the head of the colony of French noblesse established near Mickleham.
Juniper Hall: A Rendezvous of Certain Illustrious Personages during the French Revolution, Including Alexandre D'Arblay and Fanny Burney
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House, the honor being descendible to their eldest sons in lineal succession, and the raising of the most considerable of these eldest sons at a future period to a higher degree of honor, as the province increased in wealth, together with the recognition of Mr. DeBoucherville's old noblesse, it would have most certainly much sooner produced that state of things which Sir Francis Bond Head and the
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1
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La Noblesse restaurant has much to recommend it.
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But with personal greed subsuming any sense of noblesse oblige or the national interest, it is time the hallowed romance of titled wealth was dispelled.
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And though not all redcoats are aristocrats, it is the noblesse and the classes abutting it who still run the show.
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Tholouse, whom Montoni had mentioned with more eclat to his own vanity than credit to their discretion, or regard to truth, she determined to give concerts, though she had neither ear nor taste for music; conversazioni, though she had no talents for conversation; and to outvie, if possible, in the gaieties of her parties and the magnificence of her liveries, all the noblesse of
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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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.’
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They did so without hope of further profit and out of a sense of noblesse oblige.
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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
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Fine sentiment, this noblesse oblige (cf. the archangelic dignity in Milton, Paradise Lost, I think).
Cyropaedia
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Tholouse, whom Montoni had mentioned with more eclat to his own vanity than credit to their discretion, or regard to truth, she determined to give concerts, though she had neither ear nor taste for music; conversazioni, though she had no talents for conversation; and to outvie, if possible, in the gaieties of her parties and the magnificence of her liveries, all the noblesse of
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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They did so without hope of further profit and out of a sense of noblesse oblige.
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Historic nobility and royalty mostly understood the concept of noblesse obligee and ruling with the consent of the governed.
Obama: Even Palin Denounced McCain's Robo-Slime
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The spirit of noblesse oblige is not simply absent: it is incomprehensible to the rising generation.
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Venetian noblesse, with their cool porticos and colonnades, overhung with poplars and cypresses of majestic height and lively verdure; on their rich orangeries, whose blossoms perfumed the air, and on the luxuriant willows, that dipped their light leaves in the wave, and sheltered from the sun the gay parties whose music came at intervals on the breeze.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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They did so without hope of further profit and out of a sense of noblesse oblige.
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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
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It's not unthinkable that Britain's most under-privileged people might bristle at the sight of a titled toff practicing the art of noblesse oblige.
Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
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It is compelled to confess the recent advance of evangelical doctrines in the German mind, but sees only evil in the fact, and utters this jeremiade: "This church sentiment, which has seized upon the whole of the _noblesse_ in North
History of Rationalism Embracing a Survey of the Present State of Protestant Theology
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Perhaps, then, there are times when noblesse oblige is a better principle than mere populism and compromise.
Feckless Youth
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They pick up its light weapons on the battle-field on which their fathers perished, and re-feather against the 'canaille' the shafts which had been pointed against the 'noblesse.'
The Parisians — Volume 01
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Explaining the setting, Wilsher says: ‘The balmy English summer evening seems the perfect place for Mozart's tale of marital infidelity, the privileges of the noblesse and the anguish of young love.’
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And she looked at me with kind of beatific smile and said, ‘Yes, it's his sense of noblesse oblige.’
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Undaunted by the opaque mix of fact and fantasy surrounding the French noblesse and their chateaux, he has transposed to France the lines of enquiry pioneered in his acclaimed Life in the English Country House.
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This was a torch thrown into a powder magazine -- all was explosion; the church, the noblesse, and the monarchy were suddenly extinguished, and France saw this man of long views and powerful passions, suddenly raised from hunger and obscurity, to the highest rank and the richest sinecurism of the republic.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847
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Your noblesse did not deserve punishment: but to degrade is to punish.
Paras. 225-249