She loathes her fate and curses her low-born parents.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

Society was first learning to admit the low-born to her Minor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to Dead Authors] Reference

Karna, a low-born Suta's son cursed by Rama, Sakuni, the son of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2 Books 4, 5, 6 and 7] Reference

He did not stop at the low-born shop girl or the frequenter of evil resorts.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Versailles] Reference

Truly thou art acting a part in assuming the craft of a low-born fortune-teller.    From Wordnik.com.  [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference

And that would bring down upon me an hundred saucy things, and low-born brats, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

Happy the low-born man who may not have or feel such exquisite and noble SATISFACTION!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 339, January, 1844] Reference

“Do you mean to say that you have renewed your engagement to that low-born wretch?”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Anna] Reference

What a shame how these low-born knaves rob us poor nobles, and make officers and canons.    From Wordnik.com.  [The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette] Reference

Waleran was a man something like himself: young, well-educated, low-born, and intelligent.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pillars of the Earth]

"Why," said Skamkell, "if it were a low-born man it would have been said that he had wept.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Burnt Njal: the great Icelandic tribune, jurist, and counsellor] Reference

The poor Sudra is not only low-born and degraded, but he is immovably fixed in his degradation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891] Reference

He began shouting about his divine right and the insolence of low-born barbarians and such stuff.    From Wordnik.com.  [Conan the Wanderer]

True, the man of her choice was not a reprobate: he was not even a low-born, unmannerly churl: Don.    From Wordnik.com.  [Holidays at the Grange or A Week's Delight Games and Stories for Parlor and Fireside] Reference

She could not forget that she was a princess, and that she had been forced to wed a low-born kitchen knave.    From Wordnik.com.  [English Literature for Boys and Girls] Reference

But thus much I am taught, that there is some thing more than the low-born can imagine in birth and education.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

I knew how society viewed us: low-born hangers-on, upstarts too impatient for honest careers, or corrupt nobles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Excerpt: The Accusers by Lindsey Davis] Reference

Of course this noble lady refuses her consent to a marriage with the low-born Swiss and claims Mary from her guardian.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

No intrigue can exist between the patrician and the plebeian -- you are low-born, she of the noblest blood of the kingdom.    From Wordnik.com.  [Venus in Boston; A Romance of City Life] Reference

The man who, destitute of strength, and courage, chastiseth not his foes, liveth in vain, I regard such a one as low-born.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference

"This low-born servant is unspeakably honoured at this opportunity to meet the English High Prince of Hawkshaws," he said.    From Wordnik.com.  [Locked Rooms]

But she is repulsed by her mother-in-law, who is too proud to recognize the low-born maid as her equal, and slights her son.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference

But as it takes three generations to make a gentleman, so does it take several decades to give nobility to low-born ornament.    From Wordnik.com.  [Manners and Social Usages] Reference

Count of Monte-Cristo, Edmond Dantès, low-born sailor of Marseilles, modern Mephistopheles as you are, I will be even with you!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edmond Dantès] Reference

She would rather slay that low-born artisan with her own hand than know that he had the right to claim her as his mother-in-law.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lady Anna] Reference

Old but rich January eventually chooses the low-born but young May, who accepts his money and cuckolds him at the first opportunity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jane Minogue: Gypsy Brides on Sale and the Money Side of Traditional Matrimony] Reference

The aristocratic old grandmother would not allow under her roof her son's low-born wife; but she was devoted to her little grandchild.    From Wordnik.com.  [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference

The ballad singer's tender liquid tones carried his memory back to the low-born girl with the laughing eyes who had captured his heart.    From Wordnik.com.  [Madame Flirt A Romance of 'The Beggar's Opera'] Reference

The hands of that low-born valet had held for hours his happiness and his honor -- his honor, Andras Zilah's -- the honor of all his race!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference

O monarch, to be so capable, of afflicting the foe, why dost thou appoint me to the office of driver in battle for such a low-born person as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference

For Agathocles it seems was so low-born and poor that he was brought up in a potter's shop, though afterwards he was king of almost all Sicily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Plutarch's Morals] Reference

Eiczing (Eitzing or von Eiczinger, d. before 1463), a low-born adventurer, ennobled by Albert II., in whose service he had accumulated vast wealth and power.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference

Yet, withal, the common, low-born, malicious instinct was there -- the instinct which makes one of them hate the man who is better educated, better dressed than he.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills] Reference

Lichtenstein would not have delivered that note from a Princess of the house of Windthorst to you, a low-born American plebeian, unless it was part of their scheme.    From Wordnik.com.  [L.P.M. : the end of the Great War] Reference

Hence, O king, the Brahmana should avoid imparting instructions (to such as are low-born), for it was by imparting instruction to a low-born person a Brahmana came to grief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18] Reference