She did not speak like a commoner, but as a highborn. From Wordnik.com. [A Change of Seasons]
"Ye declare this feud too late," spake the highborn king. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
This highborn mob needs no bullets to eliminate the problem. From Wordnik.com. [This Fall's A Ball] Reference
“Ye declare this feud too late,” spake the highborn king. From Wordnik.com. [The Nibelungenlied] Reference
This is how the highborn think all our villages look, all the time. From Wordnik.com. [Owlsight]
The highborn Roman thought them crude, and they thought him priggish. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
Only Sendar and a few of the highborn were going north to find burial. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Honor]
“No highborn Trojan woman would walk seminaked among peasants,” he said. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
A gai-jin, a foreigner, marrying a highborn lady-how could that be possible?. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Many highborn women belonged to mysterious sects, taking part in secret revels. From Wordnik.com. [Lord of the Silver Bow]
We want to keep him on our side, completely, because he's the nearest highborn. From Wordnik.com. [Owlsight]
Every highborn Roman girl like the missing Valeria should have one, and most do. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
A gai-jin, a foreigner, marrying a highborn lady — how could that be possible?. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Nor is she your typical highborn Northern Italian heiress — all yips and orders. From Wordnik.com. [La Dolce Carla] Reference
It has been my experience that all women thrive on attention, be they slave or highborn. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
It may be that his rough soldier-manners consorted ill with his imperious highborn bride. From Wordnik.com. [The Virginians] Reference
Only one of his highborn Roman friends sought out Sulla's company after the move to Misenum. From Wordnik.com. [Fortune's Favorites]
"But, Highness, you will be surrounded by highborn young men!" the maid protested indignantly. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Honor]
Laugh at early passion ye who will; a highborn boy madly in love with a lowly ginger-beer girl!. From Wordnik.com. [The Fitz-Boodle Papers] Reference
All separated, and disgust accomplished, with these highborn men, what force could not bring about. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
If anyone is highborn, the bulls won't know it; so let him keep his honor only, and forget his rank. From Wordnik.com. [The King Must Die]
And McAsh had an infuriating way of speaking as if he were the equal of anyone, no matter how highborn. From Wordnik.com. [A Place Called Freedom]
When age was approaching, he addressed himself to his highborn patrons with petitions in well-set style. From Wordnik.com. [Shakspere and Montaigne] Reference
It's a male world, lonely for highborn women, with brides strung out along eighty miles of stone and mortar. From Wordnik.com. [Hadrian's Wall.html]
The word on every highborn lip is "dictator" and the First Class at least is starting to sit up and echo it. From Wordnik.com. [The First Man in Rome]
Fighters, teamsters, Heralds-servants and highborn-everyone who could take in two, three, or four children did so. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Honor]
I believe at the time you were thinking, "a foppish highborn courtier," or something of the sort,: Kantor observed. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Honor]
She was not a highborn lady, only the daughter of a working man, but she was as proud and haughty as she was beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters] Reference
Nearest to the Palace, predictably enough, were the enormous mansions of the highborn, each a smaller palace in itself. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Honor]
Then there were all of the support people, cooks and carters, laundresses and tailors, the servants of anyone highborn. From Wordnik.com. [Exile's Honor]
He was emboldened to say, "I never expected a, uh, highborn and, uh, lovely lady to come this long, dull, dangerous way.". From Wordnik.com. [Ensign Flandry]
Sulpice and his soldiers burst out into loud shouts of approbation, and the highborn guests retire silently and disgusted. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
Most Heralds weren't highborn, and didn't grow up with the intrigue and politics that were a part of the rhythm of Court life. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
But the fact was that Heralds were very sheltered creatures-except the ones who lived and worked in the Court, or were highborn. From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
"If 'tweren't for their highborn da's, they'd been sent home long ago for the way they paw over every girl they can catch unawares.". From Wordnik.com. [Arrow's Fall]
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