“She is the daughter of an English noble who, robbed of his lands at the Norman conquest, is now plying the trade of a miller at Manchester.”

“It has required, generally speaking, a nobility of character that is rarely met with among the children of men.”

“He disparages cheap chapel modernity in favor of the nobility of the cathedral and finds that only the environment of the gothic cathedral is commensurate.”

“At all levels of government, the nobility dominated decision making.”

“But that privileged upbringing is supposed to be accompanied by a bit of noblesse oblige.”

“In that sense the Queen Mother retained to her final days a spirit of noblesse oblige that may be increasingly out of fashion in today's Britain.”

“And though not all redcoats are aristocrats, it is the noblesse and the classes abutting it who still run the show.”

“Consequently the barren noblewoman of the tale is quick to rush to judgment against her fruitful neighbor.”

“Ms. Kim plays a mournful noblewoman from Korea's Joseon Dynasty who later becomes a slave in China.”

“Whether the male aristocrat's mistress was a noblewoman or a performer, the affair certainly remained a display of patriarchal power.”

“He was standing in the middle of the room, dressed richly, like a duke or a nobleman.”

“Maggie takes up with and marries Prince Amerigo, an impecunious Italian nobleman with a wreck of a castle in his homeland.”

“The story goes that as a boy, he saw a local nobleman set his dog on a peasant woman who was knocked to the ground and battered.”

“Their lack of attentiveness to spiritual matters did not hinder their appreciation of his nobleness.”

“I went into the Cathedral, and could not but admire the nobleness of the structure.”

“So, you see, the mission of our show is to inspire nobleness and a positive way of thinking.”

“In effect he was an officer cadet in an army that doubled as military academy for young noblemen on the Continent.”

“Funds were provided for the eight-strong party of noblemen and ladies, their twelve gentlemen attendants and seventy-five servants.”

“All of a sudden, he's being asked to dinner by leading writers and noblemen.”

“The prerogative of nobles was to command, and nobilities everywhere dominated the machineries of state.”

“In the Papal States, the urban nobilities and feudal barons were subject, at least in name, to clerical officials appointed by their overlord the Pope.”

“Yet sceptics argued that a large modern republic was not possible in Europe, with its overpowerful feudal nobilities and its hordes of miserable poor.”

“But the circle of outraged nobles had made an almost impenetrable wall surrounding the king and the prince.”

“The same is true of the large clienteles who gathered at the doors of Roman nobles during customary morning salutations.”

“In 1877 Japanese nobles formed the Iwakura mission and travelled the world cherry-picking ideas on how to industrialise the country.”