Nobles

Examples

• But, though luxurious, the Norman nobles were not generally speaking an intemperate race. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• As is the custom upon Barsoom there were thirty-one, supposedly selected by lot from men of the noble class, for nobles were on trial. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And an army of emigrés, French nobles and gentlemen, an army largely of officers, was allowed to accumulate close to the frontier. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I could see messengers running swiftly through the audience, and as they passed the nobles there unsheathed their swords and sprang into the arena. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• The nobles, who despised commerce, and the burghers, who lived by it, were always fighting for the upper hand, and the laboring people sided now with one party, and now with the other. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Where churches were being built he painted glass, where towns or nobles needed measurers or surveyors of their lands he worked for them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The nobles did not hesitate to express their fear; the other party endeavoured to treat the matter lightly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was not rented from the church, nor from the nobles. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Apart from the simple organization dictated by that common will, France was a mosaic of practically independent nobles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So Pepin was chosen king at a gathering of the Frankish nobles in the Merovingian capital Soissons, and anointed and crowned. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My father had been connected with nobles, but all I knew of such connection was subsequent neglect. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The great nobles were not at first Protestants. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• These twenty nobles I leave to Hubert, who has this day drawn as brave a bow as his grandsire did at Hastings. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Yes—in Constantinople; a daughter of the old Byzantine nobles, a Fanariot beautiful as the dawn, who dwells at Phanar. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• When Xodar told his fellow nobles of my fighting ability and strange origin they crowded about me with numerous questions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• In Egypt the temples or Pharaoh-the-god or the nobles under Pharaoh were the owners and rent receivers. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The nobles and commoners became landlords and gentlemen farmers; it was they who directed the shipbuilding and engaged in trade. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Led by several of the nobles, it made a clean sweep, in a series of resolutions, of serfdom, privileges, tax exemptions, tithes, feudal courts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Nobles and temples adopted the gang slave system for their works. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Such local nobles would assemble bands of retainers and build themselves strongholds. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They have had their shameful rights, these Nobles, in the modesty and virtue of our sisters, many years, but we have had good girls among us. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Guardsmen and nobles pressed close about the silent witness upon the marble floor. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Men went, but only kings and nobles straggled back; and that often only after heavy taxation for a ransom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Charlemagne (800) called Alcuin from York to instruct princes and nobles at the Frankish court. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Peter shaved the Oriental beards of his nobles and introduced Western costume. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Youths, nobles of the land, performed for the sake of mother or sister, the services of menials with amiable cheerfulness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I pray you, Sir Knight, said Rowena, to cease a language so commonly used by strolling minstrels, that it becomes not the mouth of knights or nobles. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Proud as these nobles are, he is afraid to see me. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The first pieces of his rustic pottery soon reached the court of France, and Henry II and his nobles ordered vases and figures from him to ornament the gardens of their chateaux. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You know, Doctor, that it is among the Rights of these Nobles to harness us common dogs to carts, and drive us. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.

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