'In Japan there is what we call the nobility of failure. From Wordnik.com. [The Ninja]
The stories of these ordinary men, what he called the nobility of ordinary people, always moved him so very much. From Wordnik.com. [A War Reporter’s Last Great Dispatch] Reference
I refer, of course, to the titled nobility of sportdom. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million] Reference
This is the only occasion upon which the word nobility appears in any code. From Wordnik.com. [Dutch Life in Town and Country] Reference
The one gauge of man's morality, of man's ideality, of man's nobility, is gone. From Wordnik.com. [The woe of an aspiring genius.] Reference
Jimâs nobility is based on the fact he loves Sir Henryâs wife, Lady Diana. From Wordnik.com. [Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat] Reference
There was a certain nobility, apparently, in Tiger Woods failing to challenge Mickelson. From Wordnik.com. [USATODAY.com - CBS stays course with glowing Masters coverage] Reference
We ascribe them a certain nobility and "work ethic", and conversely we dislike scavengers. From Wordnik.com. [Notes from the field: Vultures in the neighborhood] Reference
"He recasts his country's tycoons and politicians as dukes, earls and other nobility from the past.". From Wordnik.com. [GreenCine Daily: Weekend shorts.] Reference
If, however, our nobility is not sufficiently impelling, then in the words of Maximilian Harden, "Richesse oblige!". From Wordnik.com. [Great Britain and America in the Service of the World] Reference
It was composed of diplomats, high-level civil servants and members of the titled nobility and was limited to 100 knights. From Wordnik.com. [Military Order of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Saint Lazarus] Reference
Yet in nobility of conception, in vastness of detail, in majesty of the highest order, the Hall of Pillars exceeds them every one. From Wordnik.com. [A Thousand Miles Up the Nile] Reference
Have you forgotten your nobility, which is to sing. From Wordnik.com. [Leopold Sedar Senghor] Reference
It recalled the nobility of the lion or the mammoth. From Wordnik.com. [Bitter Gold Hearts]
Those were the untitled nobility from whom we sprung. From Wordnik.com. [Comic History of the United States] Reference
At first the nobility was the most powerful section of the Estates. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss] Reference
The idea of goodness or nobility, which is the revelation of conscience. From Wordnik.com. [The Complex Vision] Reference
Yet they hide behind the so called nobility of the industry, the voice of reason and truth. From Wordnik.com. [News24 Top Stories] Reference
These were not all occupied by the class termed the nobility, but were often the homes of merchant princes. From Wordnik.com. [Foot-prints of Travel or, Journeyings in Many Lands] Reference
The most honorable thing about the so-called nobility is generally the box-hedge which surrounds the manse. From Wordnik.com. [The Voice in the Fog] Reference
Because he taught her his nobility, which is the mere wind in a prince's nose, she taught him nobility again. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay] Reference
The Second Estate, otherwise known as the nobility, gradually lost some of their stranglehold on power and capital. From Wordnik.com. [planet.journals.ie] Reference
Though titled nobility had no native existence in the semi-civilized land, she rejoiced to find that it was sometimes. From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Fingers A Novel] Reference
And, by the way, why are we treating educational bureaucrats like titled nobility in this era of financial retrenchment?. From Wordnik.com. [SFGate: Top News Stories] Reference
But the nobility is the center point of it, and he had a tremendous sense of the self-dramatizing possibilities of public life. From Wordnik.com. [Orders From France: The Americans and the French in a Revolutionary World (1780-1820)] Reference
The grand peculiarity consisted in forming a high and titled nobility, which might rival the splendor of those of the Old World. From Wordnik.com. [The Conquest of Canada (Vol. 1 of 2)] Reference
And certainly, together with the peasants, the nobility is the class most hostile to progress, the least civilized in consequence. From Wordnik.com. [The George Sand-Gustave Flaubert Letters] Reference
A reform was also made in taxation, and shrewd measures were taken to spread commerce and industry by calling the nobility into them. From Wordnik.com. [The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11] Reference
In the first case, this would result from the elimination of exploitation by unproductive classes, that is, the nobility and the clergy. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
The Lord Ruler makes dictates, and the Ministry polices his followers, but the nobility are the ones who actually force the skaa to work. From Wordnik.com. [Mistborn] Reference
The nobility are a timid sort -- they like to invest their hard-earned savings outside of their bailiwick -- nobody knows what will happen!. From Wordnik.com. [Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 11 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Businessmen] Reference
No hereditary offices, nor order of "nobility," nor title. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
Then I think he began to have a kind of nobility to his face. From Wordnik.com. [Isaiah Berlin: A Life] Reference
His straightforward confession had a kind of nobility which was electric, moving. From Wordnik.com. [The Titan] Reference
And out of this idea of "nobility" of public character Rosmersholm directly sprang. From Wordnik.com. [Henrik Ibsen] Reference
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