"A gentleman of blood is defined to descend of three descents of nobleness, that is to saie, of name and of armes both by father and mother" (p. 161). From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare's Family] Reference
Ah, the drama, and the 'nobleness' of those characters!. From Wordnik.com. [Absorbing Art from Newspapers] Reference
Speculation and conjecture create the contrivance, which is promoted (continuously, mind you) as the controversy, and then wrapped in the "nobleness" of a conspiracy. From Wordnik.com. [Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?] Reference
"I know all you are going to say," she murmured, with a kind of nobleness which moved him even through his sense of its grotesqueness. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit and the Wild Woman] Reference
This "nobleness" on Mr. Parsons 'part is the element of style -- something large and manly, expressive of the total character of his facts. From Wordnik.com. [Picture and Text 1893] Reference
A kind of nobleness in his helping her love for any one, was there no suppressed something on his own side that he had hushed as it arose?. From Wordnik.com. [Little Dorrit] Reference
"Speculation and conjecture create the contrivance, which is promoted (continuously, mind you) as the controversy, and then wrapped in the 'nobleness' of a conspiracy. From Wordnik.com. [Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?] Reference
And may success be nobleness and every gain divine. From Wordnik.com. [Keb Mo Unpacks Musical 'Suitcase'] Reference
If you did but know her, her nobleness, her misery!. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Is nobleness of sentiment never to spring up among us?. From Wordnik.com. [Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American] Reference
And may all success be nobleness and every gain divine. From Wordnik.com. [Keb Mo Unpacks Musical 'Suitcase'] Reference
But Severus on his part emulates the nobleness of the woman whom he vainly loves. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Tilly Marsden had not enough nobleness of nature to take in the spirit of his confidence. From Wordnik.com. [Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes] Reference
Peru to his own glory, a virtue never found except amongst men of great nobleness of soul. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851] Reference
He stifles what nobleness of character he may have and he cultivates depravity and barbarism. From Wordnik.com. [No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes] Reference
King Anguish and Sir Tristram joyfully took their leave, and sailed into Ireland with great nobleness. From Wordnik.com. [Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur"] Reference
She had visioned the nobleness of giving -- and the unanswered call of her mother-nature had responded. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
In 1521 the King kept his Christmas at Greenwich "with great nobleness and open court," and again in 1525. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
I, Chios, admired the nobleness, the beauty, of this slave, until I worshipped her and loved her beyond expression. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
You have killed every good thought in me, every desire that might perhaps have had some element of nobleness in it. From Wordnik.com. [Molly Bawn] Reference
King Arthur and his realm borne up, and by their nobleness the king and all his realm was in quietness and in peace. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
His eye indicated a nobleness of soul; although his aspect was tinged with melancholy, yet he was naturally cheerful. From Wordnik.com. [Alonzo and Melissa The Unfeeling Father] Reference
"Be noble! and the nobleness that lies in other men, sleeping but never dead, will rise in majesty to meet thine own.". From Wordnik.com. [The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy] Reference
She considered his pure life and enlightened mind, and inquired, "Where is the young man that has more nobleness than he?". From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
'Ye had ended it long ago, or been ended,' said the king, 'except for the nobleness of Sir Lancelot that forbore to slay you.'. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
Madame de Tecle and her daughter found in his courteous reply a gleam of nobleness which inspired them with a shadow of confidence. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
So died a Polycarp as had died an Ignatius, both martyred, and both memorable for 'nobleness, patient endurance, and loyalty to their. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
It would seem as if man lost his nobleness when he ceased to govern, and as if the equal rule of all was equivalent to the rule of none. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
In proportion to the degree in which it is felt, will probably be the degree in which nobleness and beauty of character will be attained. From Wordnik.com. [The True Citizen, How to Become One] Reference
Last year the spa opened a small boutique hotel called the Napa Club, featuring what the brochure calls "Californian nobleness and elegance.". From Wordnik.com. [Spreading The Wealth] Reference
On the personal answer to that question depends all the success or the failure; all the nobleness or the unworthiness of the individual life. From Wordnik.com. [The Life Radiant] Reference
There is a nobleness of life and sentiment, a gentleness of manners, an evenness of temper, which cannot be believed unless you have lived with them. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
To learn to love all kinds of nobleness gives insight into the true significance of things, and gives a standard to settle their relative importance. From Wordnik.com. [Friendship] Reference
Rejoicing to grant what he desired most of all things in the world, he extended his hands to the Duke with all the nobleness and kindliness of a Bourbon. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
Its almost womanly sweetness was chastened and redeemed by the massiveness of the head, the deep penetrating eye, and an aspect of uncommon elevation and nobleness. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
Sir Lancelot, with his nobleness and courtesy, and his tales of fair ladies and brave knights, so won upon them all, that it was late ere they each departed to their beds. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
For, as King Arthur was already famous for his prowess and nobleness and his love of knightly men and brave deeds, Leodegrance knew that this would be a gift beloved of Arthur. From Wordnik.com. [King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls] Reference
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