Noblest

Examples

• I prayed them to save even from himself this scion of the noblest family in England. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Was not knowing, the activity of reason, the noblest attribute of man? John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• In still earlier years than those I have been recalling, Holliday's Hill, in our town, was to me the noblest work of God. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This is much more agreeable to me, who esteem it the most useful, the most independent, and, therefore, the noblest of employments. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• You have heard the fate that the men of Zodanga would mete to Helium's noblest hero. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• And he was the noblest and the manliest, save Esau. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• What is it that confers the noblest delight? Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Lord Steyne had acted in the noblest and most generous manner. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It would be one of the noblest amusements. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• And if so, who would receive gold on condition that he was to degrade the noblest part of himself under the worst? Plato. The Republic.
• Sotherton Court is the noblest old place in the world. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She could not put him before herself in any light but the noblest: she must trust him to the height of her own passion. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Many of the noblest specimens of the human race have been among the weakest physically. Plato. The Republic.
• Yet I will name a Norman--the first in arms and in place--the best and the noblest of his race. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It seemed worth putting down among the noblest sentiments enunciated by the best of men. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I am not heartless enough to resign a woman who has just shown herself to be the noblest of her sex. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Nothing to us, I replied; but to Apollo, the God of Delphi, there remains the ordering of the greatest and noblest and chiefest things of all. Plato. The Republic.
• The very noblest in the land may suffer unless some way be found out of this horrible affair. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• Two of them are of Helium's noblest family. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Sir Humphry Davy, after a life crowded with splendid achievements, died at Geneva in 1829 with many of his noblest dreams unfulfilled. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Those that best pleased her, as placing his conduct in the noblest light, seemed most improbable. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Boy and man, he's the noblest, stoutest heart I ever knew. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

Edited by Jimmy