It takes time and effort to overcome such obstacles that are inevitable in a worthy and noble endeavour. |
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Plus, xenon happens to be a noble gas, which means it won't corrode or otherwise interact chemically with anything. |
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In the early 1960s, a number of chemists found ways of making compounds of some noble gases, including radon, xenon, and krypton. |
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One can be hounded for scandal one day and made noble beyond all conception the next. |
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You should consider yourself lucky that you have been matched with a young noble at all. |
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Its noble gesture resides in taking on board the issue of reconciling a modern, consumerist world with an ancient one. |
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She has become the noble and marriageable daughter of a wealthy feudal lord. |
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They go home feeling accomplished, smug and self-satisfied because their intentions were noble and worthy. |
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But the Holy Prophet, or his noble companions never observed the birthday or anniversary of any of them. |
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He belonged to the noble or warrior caste and is depicted as wealthy and indulgent towards his son. |
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After a noble gesture by a donor he is now back for keratoplasty in the other eye. |
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Manors and even small keeps abound in the highlands, not tourist attractions but still noble family estates. |
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A man of many noble qualities, Frank was always conscientious in his dealings with people. |
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The social climbers thrust their way into the noble preserve not to destroy it but to make it their own. |
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They wish her many more contented years in health and happiness and pay tribute to a noble lady who possesses sterling qualities. |
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He plays Levin, the troubled noble whose story runs parallel to the adulteress of the title. |
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It is a place to reflect on noble sacrifice and draw comfort from the balm of uplifting scenery. |
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This is because the noble medium of funny pictures and word balloons is often derided as juvenile and strictly a boys' own pastime. |
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This in my opinion was no more of a noble battle than any unwarranted slaughter in the history of the mankind. |
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Though scantily fed, and often utterly discouraged by failure, they were still making a noble fight for existence. |
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After paying homage for the noble act, Dantes recovered the buried treasure and became extremely wealthy. |
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They were resilient people of noble character who knew the line between right and wrong. |
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The ancient was a banner bearing an heraldic device, the token of ancient or noble descent, borne by a gentleman or a leader in a war. |
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In the same year, Ramsay and Travers discovered two other noble gases, xenon and neon. |
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Four important chemical family names of elements still widely used are the alkali metals, the alkaline earths, the halogens, and the noble gases. |
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He fails completely, of course, but with his attempts to confound and wrong-foot audiences more used to linear stories, it is a noble failure. |
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Don't get me wrong here, planting trees is a very noble pursuit, and should be encouraged. |
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Lecturers and researchers are a special breed of people who have chosen the noble profession of teaching. |
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So I think people who are trying to help students genuinely write better English prose are doing a noble service. |
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It's all too often clumsy, insincere and inappropriate, making a mockery of otherwise noble values. |
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The social set is torn between pegging him as a total rat fink or a noble whistle-blower. |
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Allow me to introduce you to my squire, and good kinsman, the noble Valerius de Aurelius. |
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We sense the tragedy of the poetic ballad and the noble lineage of its characters in the very opening measures of the musical rendering. |
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Each idyll is a society in the distant future or the remote past that can be held up as a noble alternative to American society. |
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It may well be an immaculately written novel, correctly spelt, beautifully punctuated, and full of poetic language and noble ideas. |
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Democratic movements had started out with the noble intentions of ending the tyranny of autocratic rulers. |
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Only women of certain noble families could gain admittance to its cloister. |
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He added that he would mobilise all former players, fans and well-wishers to support the noble cause. |
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Instead of people with unkempt hair and raggedy clothes, there were well-dressed servants and slaves, and an occasional noble riding by. |
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Why were the noble elite of an advanced Iron Age tribe dressed in drab rags and covered in mud? |
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The heroic deeds of this brave and noble Irishman have brought honour and glory to his native land. |
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Eight years of toiling for the attentions of some noble benefactress and eight years of writing stories. |
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The noble gas atoms have a complete octet of electrons in the outermost shell. |
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I cannot bear the thought of one so compassionate and noble as you having such a low opinion of me. |
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Eventually, inspired by these noble research efforts, but also by my vodka and karela juice, I decided to make my own contribution. |
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The noble river Severn takes its rise from the Ellennith mountains and falls into the sea a few miles from Gloucester. |
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That uniform is stained with the noble blood of those who've fallen in battle for their country. |
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The meeting shows the millennium-old spiritual closeness between the popes of Rome and your noble people. |
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Even Web sites with a noble mission to restore a sense of community now have to earn their keep. |
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This is a noble sentiment and entirely in keeping with the true spirit of the Olympics. |
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Her father, a noble magistrate in Grenoble, sent her, against her wishes, to become a nun. |
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They seemed to be saluting a noble party riding by, ladies on palfreys, gentlemen on chargers. |
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Playing a character with two personalities may be a noble and actorly thing to attempt, unfortunately it is also difficult. |
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Purple is a noble color in its deepest values, yet it can be flowery and refreshing in pale violet colorings. |
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He was a strong and rugged elf who could often appear aggressive, but was truly kind and noble at heart. |
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But our work has been noble and necessary, and we can't call a halt to it in midstream. |
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The Shoin Building, a noble summer house constructed in Japan and reassembled on the island, allows for some interesting viewing. |
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Anyone with a noble thought or a selfless instinct winds up dead or surrendering to despair. |
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The profession of arms is a noble calling, and there is no shame in wage labor. |
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Wherever I have been, I have worked for the attainment of that noble goal and the records are there to show it. |
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But no, neither was proper for a young lady of noble blood, a princess especially. |
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I also believe that the beaver is a truly proud and noble animal, although I am not Canadian. |
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This style of building was brought to Athens by Bavarian architects, in an effort to reintroduce Greeks to noble replicas of ancient Greece. |
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This noble tradition continues to today as the church reaches out to all irrespective of class. |
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No one denies self-denial and noble altruism are generative of a host of spiritual benefits. |
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He was a noble son of the earth and his death was an irreparable loss to mankind. |
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Being good at service means that we are servile and demeans our noble island spirit. |
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He still looked devastatingly handsome with an unmistakably noble air, a vivid proof of his lineage. |
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The book opens with cosmopolitan collecting activities of noble families in the orbit of the Russian court. |
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Let me also say that my motive is not to detract attention from the noble few who set examples on which we can draw. |
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If existing technology could meet this noble goal, bargaining it away in return for reductions in offensive missiles might not be wise. |
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I was of one of the most noble families of the Roman Empire, yet this man inspired such a fear in me that I would bow and scrape to him. |
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He is currently in good form and his positive attitude is a marvellous help to this noble son of Ulster. |
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I may be a graduate of the noble and downright unemployable subject of Drama, but even I draw the line at mime artists. |
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At a deeper level, science has a more noble purpose than winning marketers. |
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But the idea of the outcast protester has a noble lineage in Argentine music and arts. |
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He is the only person entitled to display the undifferenced shield of arms, i.e. without any marks of dependency upon any other noble house. |
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He is a passionate defender of the noble art of genre film-making, something he feels was ruined by spendthrift Hollywood studios. |
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In my opinion, this ultimate irrationality undermined the movement, its impact and its otherwise noble causes. |
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The whole class was filled with faces of disgust, but Nocte thought that it was noble of heroes to have hearts. |
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But if he makes the noble gesture, a thankful nation will always remember a man made in the likeness of his illustrious grand-aunt, Constance. |
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I am still yet to be convinced that Argentinian Malbec is one of the great wines of the world, or the Malbec is a truly noble grape variety. |
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In the perfect climate of mist and warmth, and with vast financial resources, this king of Sauternes achieves noble rot each year. |
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According to the Vedas, it is not heredity that determines who is a brahmin, but rather, sattvic character and noble actions. |
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The headmaster of the high school at that time was Munetaka Abe Sensei, a man of noble character and a patriot. |
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One was meant, as I'm sure the sapient looseletter will have noticed, for much finer things, much more noble pursuits. |
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We're experts at turning a noble fiasco into a story about fortitude and stoicism. |
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It was the wrong place for a sophisticated noble blooded young Italian like himself to be. |
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He was Tamerlane himself, prince of the Sidhe, and a more tender, more noble being she'd never known. |
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Every noble and wealthy young lady of the time learned the symbolism of flowers and how to make tussie-mussies and nosegays for all occasions. |
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The noble falling fourths, echoed by the piano, re-establish the tonic key unambiguously. |
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It's a simple dish made noble by a young apprentice during a tableside preparation. |
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For any Iraqi who tries to present a noble project to help his own people they try to find a million ways to say no. |
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Spurgeon once said that Methodism was a noble thing for the unconverted but terrible for the children of God. |
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The noble lord spends most of his time alone and prefers not to talk about the four-year sentence he received for perjury. |
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On the issue of the services directive and, indeed, the Social Chapter, my noble friend is absolutely right. |
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I think it is a matter of perfect indifference to my noble friend whether these documents are produced or not. |
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I hope that what I have said has convinced my noble friend that there is no need for this amendment. |
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Will my noble friend confirm that he has no veto over the Services Directive? |
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My Lords, I am sorry but I cannot help my noble friend about the status of the Americans. |
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My Lords, I thank my noble friend and congratulate her on the Government's response so far to this overwhelming and exceptional crisis. |
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It will be found that grand style arises in poetry when a noble nature, poetically gifted, treats with simplicity or severity a serious subject. |
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In many of his books, the heroes are noble trial lawyers while the villains are sinister corporations and the lawyers who agree to defend them. |
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Agatha was a famous beauty from a noble family, who was chased after by the villainous senator. |
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I suppose the saying means that a friend who helps you when you really need help is a true friend, and this is a noble sentiment. |
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If being a father was such a noble business then why was it that he so often seemed in the depths of despair about his parental role? |
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On the noble Lord's latter point, I do not want to start a hare running, but for years and years lead in paint was thought to be appropriate. |
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His popularity sprang from his simple, evocative verse, augmented by the appeal of a noble birth, romantic youth, and tragic end. |
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Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. |
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The eye lingers on the fine features of a musician, or the graceful limbs of a dancing girl or the noble prancing of a caparisoned steed. |
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It described noble savages playing oboes and amorously frolicking in tropical glades. |
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Staff were busy refilling glasses as many informal toasts were made toward the two elves sitting closest to the noble on the end. |
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Being good at service means that we are servile and toadying and demeans our noble island spirit. |
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Aware that they could no longer rely on support from the throne, noble and clerical separatists found their solidarity crumbling. |
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Weather conditions other than alternating early mists and warm afternoons can result in a satisfactory noble rot infection. |
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How does one live a life of noble reclusion in the real world? |
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The sis and I thought we'd do the noble thing and suggest we all meet for discussion, extend that olive branch, that family was too important to let things end like this. |
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I never really knew my father, while the rest admired their noble sires. |
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It creates a cynicism in us that is not the most noble of things to dwell upon. |
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The truth is slippery, and plumbing the past to catch hold of it is as quixotic a quest as the search for the perfect bottle of wine, but it is a noble and necessary one. |
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His character goes in one scene from an insufferably noble goody two shoes to a mean spirited madman that's so cold blooded that he barely breaks a sweat in the sauna. |
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To be professionally involved in music is one of life's noble callings. |
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By the same token, boxing is a transposition of a noble pursuit of post-pub Britain into an artificial environment of padded gloves and gumshields. |
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You can choose to champion their noble cause or put them in their place. |
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One Kongo noble told a 17 th-century chronicler that the original inhabitants of his region were small men with big heads, fat bellies, and short legs. |
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My oldest sister, Bridget, water-skied in a two-piece bathing suit, her long brown hair lifted off a noble neck. |
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Those of us who are noble born learn to play almost from the cradle. |
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They do not permit her to make us happy, but put her on a level with money, status, noble birth, health, beauty and other things which are common to virtue and vice. |
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His films, sprightly action flicks with clear lines between good and evil and a noble hero, touched a chord in a post-war America. |
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You shouldn't be surprised that misfortune befalls noble men. |
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These were youths of noble birth and of doubtful education who would serve in the ranks and then receive commissions after two or more years' service. |
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Since Zarathustra tells women that their greatest hope should be to bear the overman, Nietzsche is sometimes taken to exclude the concept of the noble woman. |
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For them, war was a life-long, inter-generational, noble endeavor. |
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It was possible for young men of relatively low status to make a mark through their prowess, but in general the participants were already of noble or at least knightly birth. |
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Grant him the enduring crown with the radiant and noble diadem. |
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Remember that the Evil One is ruling over a community of noble savages, peace-loving people whose only problem is that they are oppressed by the Evil One. |
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There is something both noble and heartbreaking about those embattled young soldiers standing sentry in what for them must be an incomprehensible place. |
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No one is suggesting that Ste-Croix's horses are mistreated, nevertheless there's something sad about seeing such noble beasts prancing and cantering around a cramped ring. |
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It is a scandal that shames the good name of noble Limerick. |
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Having thus established his high position and noble motive, Mun declares his rule of commerce, which may be taken as the central principle of English mercantilism. |
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Cycling has never looked so noble as in this centenary race. |
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It was ostensibly naughty, but I like to think I had quite noble motives. |
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It was brave and noble of you to establish New Era and Trends, venues to publish works that had been banned in China. |
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The other noble metal is silver, comparatively scarce in nature but easily beaten into shapes where its gleaming silver colour reminded the ancients of the Moon. |
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Only sheer audacity would enable an author to rewrite the history of a nation's seminal figures, tarnishing the name of Judaism's noble ancestors. |
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Condemned to die, he drank poison hemlock with noble calm and courage. |
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She was one of the wealthiest women in the world and certainly the most eccentric noble of her time. |
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Sleeping mattresses were also available for members of noble households. |
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The Canadian Frank Gehry has left his distinctive calling card in the shape of a luxury hotel perched above the rolling vineyards of the noble Marques de Riscal winery. |
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Throughout the medieval period the term yeoman was used within the royal and noble households to indicate a servant's rank, degree, position or status. |
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He is a noble stoic who is by far the most pure character in the play. |
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The letter closes with noble words of faith and hope from the hot zone where screw-ups are met each day with selfless courage. |
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In other words, the noble landlords and magnates, whose values were decidedly not those of Puritan asceticism, were in the vanguard of capitalism. |
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And they were quick to defend the noble white rose yesterday, especially after it was revealed voters had chosen to leave rival Lancastrians with their red rose. |
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His mate soon gives birth to a son, Simba, and Mufasa teaches his heir apparent how to become a noble leader. |
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Many of the ship's complement were adventurers from noble families, and jewellery and coins, mainly gold, percolated to the bottom of the shingle-filled gullies. |
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Along with many other noble agencies, they are always at the forefront of the relief effort following calamities and catastrophes at local, national and international level. |
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His face was noble and his eyes glittered keenly with curiosity. |
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I still fail to grasp how the sight of ancient Cretans dressed as bewigged eighteenth-century courtiers brings us closer to Mozart's noble opera seria, but never mind. |
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These are just heaps of noble materials sheathing insignificant forms and insipid patterns or inappropriate functions that could have been rejected. |
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How question Shakespeare's sympathy for such a youthful, noble victim who would, I think, find any one of the situations awaiting him far in excess of any objectless feeling? |
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Lee put the blame for Gettysburg on himself, which was a rare and noble thing to do, then retreated, and kept on fighting. |
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Far from worrying about musty family skeletons in aristocratic cupboards, noble pedigrees are advertised and the smallest cup-full of blue blood proudly proclaimed. |
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Even murderous goons and heartless goombahs were stirred to noble deeds. |
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As the story goes, many Venetian nuns were noble women forced into the convent to save their families from bankruptcy. |
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Clearly, some of the nurses are in the noble calling for the money. |
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Here our noble hero sits out on the moors, accompanied by his dogs, surrounded by the spoils of a good day's sport and communing with this great, noble landscape. |
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My Lords, of course I thank my noble friend for his congratulations. |
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The general public seems to want gays to be noble and fun, but also sexless. |
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Attached to the plane tree or any other tree for that matter, there was nothing noble about his robes, and barbarous gold, and all his other gifts. |
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There is gratuitous torture, interrogational torture, judicial torture, vengeful torture, intimidational torture, torture as punishment and noble cause torture. |
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My Lords, I thank my noble friend for that comprehensive reply. |
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He had heard tales of labyrinthine passages built into the walls of noble castles, and knew that the Princess must know a secret control to open his room into such a passage. |
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She would unarm her noble heart of that steely resistance against the sweet blows of love. |
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Ambrosio beheld before him that once noble and majestic form, now become a corse, cold, senseless, and disgusting. |
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And gravitate toward noble entities you spy behind froggy appearances. |
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If the accused were a noble and the victim not a noble, the likelihood of finding for the accused was small. |
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Nerva had a noble ancestry, and he had served as an advisor to Nero and the Flavians. |
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In noble families a Greek nurse usually taught the children Latin and Greek. |
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Undoubtedly, it achieves those noble aims, but just as important, it's always the tearjerker of the year. |
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To dramatize its evil, he romanticizes Caribbean life, nearly invoking images of noble savages. |
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He had, during many years, earned his daily bread by pandaring to the vicious taste of the pit, and by grossly flattering rich and noble patrons. |
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Generally their royal or noble status is recognized by and derived from the authority of traditional custom. |
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Several candidates were presented to him including one young woman from a noble family. |
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Richard came from a good family, but one that was neither noble nor wealthy. |
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Once, the quinceanera marked a noble girl's passage to adulthood and her availability for possible marriage. |
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Boys wishing to follow his noble example also tackled problems with a range of plastic ray guns. |
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It glorified Naziism as something great, noble and admirable in the face of genocide and military conquest. |
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Base metal thermocouples may be calibrated by comparison with noble metal thermocouples in furnaces. |
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When the polymer phase results saturated by noble metal atoms, clusters are generated. |
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But for quantum clusters and quantum dots of noble metals the mode of detection is different. |
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There's another 30 noble metals that are available as enriched isotopes, and they have a different chelator molecule. |
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Thieves are often after the small amounts of platinum, palladium and other noble metals used in their construction. |
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This wholesale piercing of veils, this society of pioneers' descendants, noble in their imperviousness to propaganda. |
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That could be a promise unfilled, but it's a noble goal, since the deficit is the amount by which the federal government outspends its revenue. |
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Their essays challenge the image of noble Chechen warriors fighting for freedom from the imperialist Russian bear. |
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For each flavor, the lightest meson, which is the best candidate for assembling a pentaquark, is a spin-0 particle, which resembles a noble gas. |
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A noble gas, it was discovered by Scottish scientist Sir William Ramsay 100 years ago today. |
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And liker all noble gases, it's chemically inert, or doesn't combine with any other elements except in extreme cases. |
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The scientists decided to see if they could dissolve noble gases in perovskite under pressure to find the missing ingredient. |
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A people which takes no pride in the noble achievements of remote ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by remote descendants. |
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We seem to like this simple idea that leadership is somehow a noble enterprise, leaving the scutwork of actually getting things done to those control-freak managers. |
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It was probably intended to compliment one of Verrazzano's noble friends. |
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King Henry even sent his son Henry to live in Becket's household, it being the custom then for noble children to be fostered out to other noble houses. |
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This also coincided with the perfect conditions for a botrytis infection, known as noble rot, which can result in distinctive sweet dessert wines. |
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What, now, could it be that might give solid foundation to this challenge and to this belief of the noble in the eternity and the imperishability of his work? |
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The team has analyzed the ratios of noble gas isotopes from deep within Earth's mantle, and has compared these results to isotope ratios closer to the surface. |
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Finally, because the POM is chemically stable, the hybrid fuel cell can use unpurified polymeric biomass without concern for poisoning noble metal anodes. |
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Orchestral colouring was wonderful, whether lapel-gripping woodwind, noble horns, or finely-etched timpani, now roaring, now discreetly quiescent. |
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They are fired at noble gases, where they rip electrons out of the atoms. |
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A Welshman of noble birth, Saint Petroc was educated in Ireland. |
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The title of Le'ul Ras was accorded to the heads of various noble families and cadet branches of the Solomonic dynasty, such as the princes of Gojjam, Tigray, and Selalle. |
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O noble, prudent folk in happier case! Your dice-box doth not tumble out ambsace. |
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A list of noble titles for different European countries can be found at Royal and noble ranks. |
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During the existence of the Empire of Brazil 1211 noble titles were acknowledged. |
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In the context of the ancient tradition and norms of Castilian nobililty, all descendants of a noble are considered noble, regardless of fortune. |
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The bestowal of noble and aristocratic titles was widespread across the empire even after its fall by independent monarchs. |
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This basic standard explains why the noble population was relatively large, although the economic status of its members varied widely. |
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In practice, however, a noble family's financial assets largely defined its significance. |
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In Scandinavia, the Benelux nations and Spain there are still untitled as well as titled families recognised in law as noble. |
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In some parts of Europe the right of private war long remained the privilege of every noble. |
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He develops an impassioned admiration for Steerforth, perceiving him as something noble, who could do great things if he would. |
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In about 1680, he rebuilt his ancestral seat of Stowe House in Cornwall in a grand style befitting his new noble status. |
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Henry appears to have chosen her because she was attractive and came from a prestigious noble line. |
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He may have chosen some of his noble mistresses for political purposes, but the evidence to support this theory is limited. |
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While details of Cabral's early life are unclear, it is known that he came from a minor noble family and received a good education. |
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Philip decided to take advantage of this situation, first in Germany, where he aided German noble rebellion in support of the young Frederick. |
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Shortly after his birth, John was passed from Eleanor into the care of a wet nurse, a traditional practice for medieval noble families. |
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After the 860s, Lotharingian noble Robert the Strong became increasingly powerful as count of Anjou, Touraine and Maine. |
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Many locals, merchant and noble alike, envied the power of the league and tried to diminish it. |
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These peasants were often subject to noble overlords and owed them rents and other services, in a system known as manorialism. |
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Martin Leme was the son of Martin Lems and his noble Portuguese wife Joana Barroso. |
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In 1451, he was appointed noble officer of the marine corps of crossbowmen on a galley to Alexandria. |
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Peter's main policies were concerned with restricting the political power of the great noble houses and expanding the powers of the crown. |
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The simplicity which is so large an element in a noble nature was laughed to scorn. |
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Of the various collateral patrilines, the senior in order of descent from the founding ancestor, the line of eldest sons, was the most noble. |
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Alexander also had a close relationship with his friend, general, and bodyguard Hephaestion, the son of a Macedonian noble. |
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Alexander was raised in the manner of noble Macedonian youths, learning to read, play the lyre, ride, fight, and hunt. |
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Everyone, even noble passengers of greater formal rank, were under his jurisdiction. |
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By living as a drone, to be an unprofitable and unworthy member of so noble and learned a society. |
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A few contexts in the Chinese classics romanticize or idealize barbarians, comparable to the western noble savage construct. |
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Alternatively, they may instead be admired and romanticised as noble savages. |
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However, because noble lines went extinct naturally, some number of ennoblements was necessary. |
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The constitution explicitly prohibits the enactment of noble privileges, titles, and ranks. |
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At 25 years of age, Hume, although of noble ancestry, had no source of income and no learned profession. |
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His father, Gwilym Gam, and mother, Ardudfyl, were both from noble families. |
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Why are you so critical of baseball?... something pure and noble like the American flag, motherhood and apple pie. |
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Because of her noble birth, she bitterly resented her position as a morganatic wife. |
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It appears, as is well known in later times, that noble kin groups had their own patron saints, and their own churches or abbeys. |
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I regarded the Suffolk Punch as a noble animal, well suited to dominate our design and represent the club. |
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If Behn is a curious exception to the rule of noble verse, Robert Gould breaks that rule altogether. |
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For indeed your Lordship's House was happy to me, and I kiss your noble hands for the welcome which I am sure you give me to it. |
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This became possibly the most famous story about Sir Phillip, intended to illustrate his noble and gallant character. |
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He is referred to as a noble translator and poet by Eustache Deschamps and by his contemporary John Gower. |
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Though the aim of chivalry was to noble action, its conflicting values often degenerated into violence. |
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From the beginning of the Brotherhood's formation in 1848, their pieces of art included subjects of noble or religious disposition. |
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Egan made Robin Hood of noble birth but raised by the forestor Gilbert Hood. |
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Scholars debate the scope of the word castle, but usually consider it to be the private fortified residence of a lord or noble. |
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More's decision to educate his daughters set an example for other noble families. |
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Fostering is possibly a sign of noble birth, as are references to his riding a horse when young. |
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According to him, Romans, like other people, had an historical ethos preserved mainly in the noble families. |
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The English currency was almost exclusively silver until 1344 when the gold noble was successfully introduced into circulation. |
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Chivalry and the ethos of courtly love developed in royal and noble courts. |
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Many of Queen Elizabeth's relatives were married into noble families and others were granted peerages or royal offices. |
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During the battle, the Gascon noble Jean de Grailly, captal de Buch led a mounted unit that was concealed in a forest. |
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Having inherited the March and Ulster titles, he became the wealthiest and most powerful noble in England, second only to the king himself. |
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An Asturian Visigothic noble named Pelagius of Asturias in 718 AD was elected leader. |
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Eadulf, a Saxon noble, was appointed to organise the defence of Sussex but died from the plague before much could be done. |
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He also increased the number of Patricians by adding new families to the dwindling number of noble lines. |
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The gulf between noble and ignoble was very large, but the difference between a freeman and an indentured labourer was small. |
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This passage describes how Hrothgar's legendary ancestor Scyld was found as a baby, washed ashore, and adopted by a noble family. |
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The portcullis was originally the badge of various English noble families from the 14th century. |
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People with noble and serene thoughts are found in higher subdivisions that have heavenlike conditions but are not actual heavens. |
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British society is divided into nobility, gentry, and yeomanry, and families are either noble, gentle, or simple. |
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Florence was home to the Medici, one of European history's most important noble families. |
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The city was governed by the Great Council, which was made up of members of the noble families of Venice. |
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For the Cossack elite, a noble status within the empire came at the price of their old liberties in the 18th century. |
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He was regarded by the Gallicans and Protestants as a noble man who respected people's dignity and lives. |
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The noble stayed for two days in the Spanish camp, making an assessment of the Spaniards' weapons and horses. |
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Other holders of Spanish noble titles that descend from the Aztec emperor include Dukes of Atrisco. |
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Little is known of Maya merchants, although they are depicted on Maya ceramics in elaborate noble dress. |
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A number of royal and noble titles have been identified by epigraphers translating Classic Maya inscriptions. |
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He had turned her adrift, neither a wife, widow, nor maid, and here she was, one of the most estimably lovable and noble women I have ever met. |
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Me thinks vertue is another manner of thing, and much more noble than the inclinations unto goodnesse, which in us are ingendered. |
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According to indigenous histories, land was held communally by noble houses or clans. |
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The identity of his parents is still unknown, but he appears to have been a member of a distinguished and influential noble family. |
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At that time an ambassador was a nobleman, the rank of the noble assigned varying with the prestige of the country he was delegated to. |
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The noble people clothing, this type of costume was for citizens who are very rich can wear this type costume. |
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The plenipotentiary of the Czar was Count George Mocenigo, a noble from Zante who had earlier served as Russian diplomat in Italy. |
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In 1443 the island was already inhabited but active settlement only began with the arrival of the noble Flemish native Wilhelm Van der Haegen. |
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The only Vandal governor of Sardinia about whom there is substantial record is the last, Godas, a Visigoth noble. |
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Imperial, royal and noble preference also plays a role in the change of Chinese cuisines. |
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After this Dolbadarn Castle served as his base but by March this noble site in the heart of Snowdonia was also threatened forcing his departure. |
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Silver does not react with air, even at red heat, and thus was considered by alchemists as a noble metal along with gold. |
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Binary compounds of zinc are known for most of the metalloids and all the nonmetals except the noble gases. |
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Although gold is the most noble of the noble metals, it still forms many diverse compounds. |
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Clans with recognised chiefs are therefore considered a noble community under Scots law. |
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On the European continent, there is a clear difference between noble arms and burgher arms. |
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Comparable similarities seem also to have existed in the mutual responsibilities between noble patron and client. |
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The similarity between the Irish and Gaulish way to establish noble rank has already been remarked upon above. |
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