1897 examples of nobilities in sentences

''Yes,' returned the king, 'I wish to God that the reduction of the nobilities' estates had not taken place, and that I had never undertaken a journey to Torneo.'

But what about the poor human soul itself, with its inherent vices and virtues, its fears and indulgences, audacities and nobilities, jealousies, shames, blunders, incurable likes, cravings and diseases? Can science change the texture of the slave and careerist, if they represent the subnormal and the abnormal?

But above all, 'tis pleasantest to get The top of high philosophy, and sit On the calm, peaceful, flourishing head of it: Whence we may view, deep, wondrous deep below, How poor mistaken mortals wand'ring go, Seeking the path to happiness: some aim At learning, wit, nobility, or fame: Others with cares and dangers vex each hour To reach the top of wealth, and sov'reign pow'r: Blind wretched man!

At home, Elizabeth had to contend with a jealous Parliament, a factious nobility, an empty purse, and a divided people.

While she lavished favors upon them,sometimes to the disgust of the old nobility,she was never ruled by them, as James was by Buckingham, and Louis XV.

There were no destructive and wasting wars, no passion for military glory, no successions of court follies, no extravagance in palace-building, no egotistical aims and pleasures such as marked the reign of Louis XIV., which cut the sinews of national strength, impoverished the nobility, disheartened the people, and sowed the seeds of future revolution.

Either the king, or the lord chancellor, or the universities, or the nobility, or the county squires had the gift of the "livings," often bestowed on ignorant or worldly or inefficient men, the younger sons of men of rank, who made no mark, and were incapable of instruction or indifferent to their duties.

Before the Revolution, in municipal governments only the nobility had a sharethey only were the men who could vote: but the change was easy.

We had only to say, the people instead of the nobility had the right to vote; and so, in one day, we buried aristocracy, never to rise again.

The purple stripe (-clavus-) on the tunic was a badge of the senators (I. V. Prerogatives of the Senate) and of the equites, so that at least in later times the former wore it broad, the latter narrow; with the nobility the -clavus- had nothing to do.

Thus the fifteen or sixteen houses of the high nobility, that were powerful in the state at the time of the Licinian laws, maintained their ground without material change in their relative numberswhich no doubt were partly kept up by adoptionfor the next two centuries, and indeed down to the end of the republic.

So the danger might have seemed slightonly that woman is universally aristocratic; it is amongst her nobilities of heart that she is so.

Vile and shameless souls (says Luther) for the sake of gain, like flies to a milk-pail, crowd round the tables of the nobility in expectation of a church living, any office, or honour, and flock into any public hall or city ready to accept of any employment that may offer.

"And like the children of nobility, require to eat pap, and, angry at the nurse, refuse her to sing lullaby.

"Nobility without wealth is more worthless than seaweed.

"If children be proud, haughty, foolish, they defile the nobility of their kindred," Eccl. xxii, 8. 3665.

And since among the nobility there were far more males than females he allowed those who pleased, save the senators, to marry freedwomen, and ordered that the offspring of such a man should be deemed legitimate.

But she never liked the smooth red lips, nor the over-pointed nose, which had something of the falcon's keenness without its nobility.

Here is a nobility worthy to compare with the patience of the praedials.

We parade our nobilities in poems and orations, instead of working them up into happiness.

* "To His Grace, Duke Frederick of Styria, Elector of the Holy Roman Empire, and Count of Austria; Charles, Duke of Burgundy and Count of Charolois, sends greeting: "The said Duke Charles recommends himself to the most puissant Duke Frederick, and bearing in mind the great antiquity and high nobility of the illustrious House of Hapsburg, begs to express his desire to bind the said noble House to Burgundy by ties of marriage.

He refused a title of nobility offered him by Duke Philip.

Without being little, Yolanda was small; without nobility, she had the haute mien.

Like plot, it is deeply engaged in the outward world; it exists in the sensuous order, and it shadows forth the spiritual order in man only in so far as a fair soul makes the body beautiful, as Spenser thought,the mood, the act, and the habit of heroism, love, and the like nobilities of man, giving grace to form, feature, and attitude.

They were a reserved household, inclined to the small nobilities of silence.

1897 examples of  nobilities  in sentences