Use nobility in a sentence
Sentences starting with nobility
- Nobility spoke in the large features, in the generous mouth, in the calm, gray eyes. [9]
- Nobility was written on the placid, apathetic countenance, except when it was not under observation, and then the look of Cain took its place. [11]
- Nobility and peace and power brooded over the white world. [11]
- Nobility is not a necessary qualification. [5]
Sentences ending with nobility
- He did not yet apprehend his own selfishness nor her nobility. [4]
- It belongs to the nobility. [11]
- The guests knew that the Emperor Rudolph disliked the boisterous manners of the German nobility. [10]
- It was feared that next there would be an importation of the nobility. [5]
- I had the smith's reverence now, because I was apparently immensely prosperous and rich; I could have had his adoration if I had had some little gimcrack title of nobility. [5]
- There was a proud and ancient Hereditary Nobility. [5]
- They could then, on their return, maintain to their Mentor Croesus, that they had been pursuing fieldsports, the favorite occupation of the Persian nobility. [10]
- She was so magnanimous, so unsuspicious, so full of all nobility. [4]
- In their eyes, it was a nobility. [5]
- When we marry in France, it is with a dot, and especially is it necessary amongst the families of our nobility. [9]
Short sentences using nobility
- Orders of nobility were instituted. [5]
- All the nobility does. [5]
- What nobility! [9]
More example sentences with the word nobility in them
- You may thank your own nobility and courage that you remained in London after that. [9]
- It has given you a nobility of which we did not suspect you. [9]
- Secondly, these missionaries would gradually, and without creating suspicion or exciting alarm, introduce a rudimentary cleanliness among the nobility, and from them it would work down to the people, if the priests could be kept quiet. [5]
- The candy-striped pole, which indicates nobility proud and ancient along the palace-bordered canals of Venice, indicated merely the humble barbershop along the main street of Dawson's Landing. [5]
- Nobility, character, efficiency,-all were written on that face. [9]
- In the first were the nobility and gentry in their uniforms, in the second bearded merchants in full-skirted coats of blue cloth and wearing medals. [2]
- To us she was the sun soaring in the heavens, and her new nobility a candle atop of it; to us it was swallowed up and lost in her own light. [5]
- Yes, as I was saying, there's only St. Albans, Buccleugh and Grafton ahead of us on the list--all the rest of the British nobility are in procession behind us. [5]
- The other chair was for the Chevalier de la Darante, one of the oldest and best of our nobility, who pretends great roughness and barbarism, but is a kind and honourable gentleman, though odd. [11]
- The secretary was told to write down the resolution of the Moscow nobility and gentry, that they would furnish ten men, fully equipped, out of every thousand serfs, as the Smolensk gentry had done. [2]
- I will say to the dukes and counts and princes of the ancient nobility of France: "Ha, ha! [5]
- It is owing to primogeniture that while there is a nobility in England there is no noblesse. [4]
- But listen, thin, to me"--her voice got lower-- "for 'tis not the furst time, a thing like that, the lady she is-- granddaughter of a Seigneur, and descinded from nobility in France! [11]
- They came over to Massachusetts Bay in another vessel, and thus escaped the onus of that brevet nobility under which the successors of the Mayflower Pilgrims have descended. [5]
- It is time to get the nobility together and be moving. [5]
- My idea was to attract the chivalry and nobility, and make them useful and keep them out of mischief. [5]
- The seats, except those saved for the nobility, are soon all taken, and the ladies who come after seven are lucky if they can get within the charmed circle, and find a spot to sit down on a campstool. [4]
- Only the strange thing is to see in what a capricious way our natural nobility is distributed. [6]
- And it's also the very law of those transparent swindles, transmissible nobility and kingship. [5]
- And to keep the pace,--nay, to set it, the nobility and landed gentry were sore pressed. [9]
- He had acquainted the nobility with his projects, and was afraid to see the Prince Royal before he had accomplished anything, "but their great promises were nothing but air to prepare the voyage against the next year. [4]
- The delight of the Nobility and Gentry shorn of a bonnet which a Lady Mayoress might have sighed to wear, and arrayed in a white sheet as a spectacle of mortification and humility! [12]
- The leaders of the Netherland nobility were figures very unlike in stature and size to Philip; but he could vie in haughty majesty with any of them. [10]
- The furniture of the houses had also grown in a manner "passing delicacy," and not of the nobility and gentry only, but of the lowest sort. [4]
- Could it be that the Court had set up some sprig of the nobility in his place? [5]
- Yet she knew that she was not of them, and they knew that, poor as she was, in her veins flowed the blood of the old nobility of France. [11]
- This would make that regiment the heart's desire of all the nobility, and they would all be satisfied and happy. [5]
- I should be thankful to do nothing, but here on the one hand the local nobility have done me the honor to choose me to be their marshal; it was all I could do to get out of it. [2]
- The ripping and tearing and squealing of the nobility up and down the halls and corridors was pandemonium come again, and kept me broad awake. [5]
- She said that such a nature as that young man's was rarely and truly noble, and nearly perfect; and that with nobility of birth added it was entirely perfect. [5]
- He wanted only success somehow or another, and there was no nobility of mind or aspiration behind it. [11]
- The King came softly to Hendon's side, and whispered in his ear-- "Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men. [5]
- To revenge one's self for wrong to one's self is but a common passion, which has little dignity; to avenge some one whom one has loved, man or woman, --and, before all, woman,--has some touch of nobility, is redeemed by loyalty. [11]
- Also that other rumor that English nobility acquired an added stench the other day--and had to ship it to India and the continent because there wasn't any more room for it at home? [5]
- The charm of Randolph Leffingwell, which had fascinated the nobility of three kingdoms, had descended on her, and hostesses had discovered that she possessed the magic touch necessary to make a dinner complete. [9]
- Bertin used to put on airs with the nobility when they came to order gowns, and she was very rude to me when I went for my court dress. [9]
- After many vain projects the scheme was commended to several of the nobility, gentry, and merchants, who came into it heartily, and the memorable expedition of 1606 was organized. [4]
- There are viceroys, princes, governors, sub-governors, sub-sub-governors, and a hundred orders of nobility, grading along down from grand-ducal archangels, stage by stage, till the general level is struck, where there ain't any titles. [5]
- His was a physiognomy to strike the stranger, not by reason of its nobility, but because of its oddity. [9]
- Eleanor Goodrich bore on her features the stamp of true nobility of character, and her husband, Hodder knew, was a man among men. [9]
- The transatlantic point of view towards the nobility was beyond him. [9]
- Their descendants are of the nobility, but their family name and blood bring them honors which no other nobles receive or may hope for. [5]
- From the hall of the nobility the Emperor went to that of the merchants. [2]
- And some nobility of high emprise, Lady, couldst thou make possible in me; If living 'neath the pureness of thy eyes, I found the key to inner majesty; And reaching outward, heart-strong, from thy hand, Set here and there a beacon in the land. [11]
- For its nobility of form, its deft and wise softness of colouring, its half-smothered Italian joyousness of design in ceiling and cornice, the arrangement of choice and exquisite furniture was too careful, too much like the stage. [11]
- I have a notion that the State of Maine breeds the natural nobility in a larger proportion than some other States, but they spring up in all sorts of out-of-the-way places. [6]
- What gentleness and nobility there are in her features and expression! [2]
- It seemed also natural that Penelope should be attracted by her nobility of nature. [4]
- How could a nation, who despised song, pretend to any nobility of feeling? [10]
- A week before my wedding-day, while I was still swimming in bliss and the nobility were gathering from far and near to honor our espousals, came news of my uncle's death, and also a copy of his will, making me his sole heir. [5]
- You have taught me by your life and person, by your beauty and truth, by your nobility of mind and character how life should be lived. [11]
- This was the Marshal of the Nobility of the district, who had come personally to point out to the princess the necessity for her prompt departure. [2]
- But I have lived a great many years, and the older I get and the more I see of human nature the firmer has grown my conviction of its essential nobility and goodness. [9]
- He did not know till afterwards that it was this very nobility and unselfishness which Penelope saw could be turned to account for her own purposes. [4]
- He had brutally killed love--the full life of it--those months ago; but there was a deep thing working in her which was as near nobility as the human mind can feel. [11]
- Even the nobility itself, driven by ennui, or a loss of former political control, or by the necessity of more money to support inherited estates, goes into business, into journalism, writes books, enters the professions. [4]
- With the monarchy, its several adjuncts died also; wherefore there is no longer a nobility, no longer a privileged class, no longer an Established Church; all men are become exactly equal; they are upon one common level, and religion is free. [5]
- We blandly march into a man's house, and cram it full of the only really valuable nobility the sun has yet discovered in the earth, and then it turns out that we don't even know the man's name. [5]
- They were pronounced in sorrow, yet in hope, and they brought home to him, sharply, the nobility of the bishop's own sacrifice. [9]
- In vain did I seek for a glimpse of Suzanne's red ribbons, and I grew less and less attentive to the miller's reminiscences and arraignments of the nobility. [9]
- He pictured in his mind a certain nobility of action in going forward to the unfortunate family with his sympathy, and appearing to them in the heroic attitude of a man whose love has no alloy of self-interest. [4]
- I called at his house and when no one was looking borrowed a double handful of his very choicest; cigars which cost him forty cents apiece and bore red-and-gold labels in sign of their nobility. [5]
- There was in him some antique touch of refinement and temperament which, in all his evil days and deeds and moments of shy nobility, could find its way into the souls of men with whom the world had had an awkward hour. [11]
- Not far from here, they point out the veritable caves of the Sirens, who have now shut up house, and gone away, like the rest of the nobility. [4]
- The nobility of her nature, her inflexible straight-forwardness came upon him with overwhelming force. [11]
- Fitch discovered that he'd got hold of the wrong king, or rather, that he'd got hold of the king's driver, or a carriage driver of one of the nobility. [5]
- He hardened his heart against the senator who was introducing this set and narrow attitude into the deliberations of the nobility. [2]
- He made easy headway into the affections of his hostess; for, besides all other predilections, she had an adoring awe of the nobility. [11]
- From the latter he experienced the most cordial and unreserved friendship; she greatly interested herself in his future, and furnished him with letters from herself and the nobility to persons of the first distinction in Florence, Rome, and Naples. [4]
- But whence did he derive the powerful, but indescribable something which gave nobility to his head, and of which it was impossible to say whether it lay in his eye, or in the lofty brow, arched so differently to that of either parent? [10]
- Had our King, had our nobility, been men with the old fire, they would not have stood it. [9]
- None of them had ever seen a person bearing a title of nobility before, and none had been expecting to see one now, consequently the title came upon them as a kind of pile-driving surprise and caught them unprepared. [5]
- The nobility don't gwudge theah lives--evewy one of us will go and bwing in more wecwuits, and the sov'weign" (that was the way he referred to the Emperor) "need only say the word and we'll all die fo' him! [2]
- If a grandly gifted man may drag his pride and his manhood in the dirt for bread rather than starve with the nobility that is in him untainted, the excuse is a valid one. [5]
- These poor ostensible freemen who were sharing their breakfast and their talk with me, were as full of humble reverence for their king and Church and nobility as their worst enemy could desire. [5]
- No; Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, Nobility, Democracy, Adultery the system is too variegated for our climate. [5]
- Timothy Dexter, the first claimant of a title of nobility among the people of the United States of America, was born in the town of Malden, near Boston. [6]
- I think they felt his greatness then, and had any one of them possessed the nobility to come forward with an honest word, John Paul might yet have been saved to Scotland. [9]
- Even Jack, who fell into the current notion of his generation of young men that the Henderson sort of morality was best adapted to quick success, evinced a consciousness of want of nobility in the course he was pursuing by not making Edith his confidante. [4]
- Now, by primogeniture, enough is retained for a small nobility, but all the younger sons must go into the world and make a living. [4]
- This misguided woman, embittered by misfortune, possessed the power of rendering the greatest benefit to one infinitely her superior in nobility of soul, and with cruel defiance she refused it. [10]
- He found himself dragged into society and courted, wondered at and envied very much as if he were one of those foreign barbers who flit over here now and then with a self-conferred title of nobility and marry some rich fool's absurd daughter. [5]
- From what he did hear he understood that the Emperor spoke of the danger threatening the empire and of the hopes he placed on the Moscow nobility. [2]
- But oh, my dear, when I think of it, the nobility and generosity of what you have done appalls me. [9]
- The nobility ("whose cooks are for the most part musical-headed Frenchmen and strangers ") exceed in number of dishes and change of meat. [4]
- Thus there is constant movement up and down in social England, approaching, except in the traditional nobility, the freedom of movement in our own country. [4]
- Jack saw and comprehended for the first time in his life the real nature of a pure woman, the depths of tenderness and self-abnegation, the heroism and calm trust and the nobility of an unworldly life. [4]
- We got a carriage at twilight and drove in the shaded avenues with the other nobility, and after dinner we took wine and ices in a fine garden with the great public. [5]
- The first fashionable call she received from a member of the ancient nobility, otherwise the Antiques, was of a pattern with all she received from that limb of the aristocracy afterward. [5]
- To be linked by marriage with the nobility would indeed be the justification of all her long-baffled hopes. [11]
- They took everything but my father's small nobility, and when he reached Neufchateau he reached it in poverty and with a broken spirit. [5]
- It must be borne in mind, however, that our rector did not see him in his jungle, and perhaps in the traditional nobility of the lion there is a certain truth. [9]
- Most of them belonged to the nobility, but the beloved "blue, white, and blue" removed all distinctions of birth. [10]
- To this must be added that the entire nobility of the realm, the satraps or governors of the provinces, and the chief priests from every town were also assembled at Babylon to celebrate the king's birthday. [10]
- He had passed as one of the nobility, but he knew that all true men, all he had ever met, must have read him through and through. [11]
- The husbandman and artificer ate such meat as they could easiest come by and have most quickly ready; yet the banquets of the trades in London were not inferior to those of the nobility. [4]
- The Oranges, Egmont, Aremberg, Brederode, Aerschot, and other heads of the highest nobility in Brabant would have vied with one another to present her to their guests, receive her at their country seats, and invite her to join their riding parties. [10]
- She laughed loudly, and with seeming lightness, as she hastily answered him: "Then you haughty lords of the marches allow not that it is in the Emperor's power to grant letters of nobility, but ascribe it to Heaven alone! [10]
- The council had almost unanimously voted an assent to Van Bronkhorst's proposition, that the young lady, as a relation of prominent friends of Spain among the Netherland nobility, should be kept in the city. [10]
- Our party walked all through the house, and then the nobility escorted them all over the grounds, and finally brought them back to the palace about half-past two o'clock to breakfast. [5]
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