Do we say noble or ignoble

noble 13162 occurrences

[Marginal Note: Or Cassibin.], which is a noble and renowmed city, sauing that the Tartars haue destroyed a great part thereof, and it aboundeth with bread, wine, and many other commodities.

Then traueiling on still towards the East by many cities, I came vnto the noble and renowmed citie of Cambaleth, which is of great antiquitie being situate in the prouince of Cataie.

Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise (That hath infirmity of noble mind) To scorn delights and live laborious days And again: How hard it is to climb The heights where Fame's proud temple shines afar!

" "You speak with confidence of your associations, Master Seadrift, and rate noble personages among your customers, as familiarly as if you dealt in offices of state.

Many years of early life did I pass on the noble coasts of that romantic region.

My husband is noted among his peers for his liberal and noble-minded use of a princely income, and his great public spirit.

"He was of mankind In might the strongest, At that day Of this life, Noble and stalwart.

"Then said the royal Hetel: 'The people all relate That whosoe'er will woo her incurs her father's hate, And for the maid has perished full many a noble knight; My friends shall never suffer for me such woeful plight.'" Gudrun (Dippold's tr.).

"Then from the castle chamber the royal maid cried out: 'King Hetel, noble father, the blood flows all about Athwart the mighty hauberks.

With naked feet they waded there through the ice and snow: The noble maids, all homeless, were filled with pain and woe.

"There looked the noble maiden and saw the morning glow.

Ute declared that the falcon her daughter had seen in her dream must be some noble prince, whom she would love and marry; while the two eagles were base murderers, who would eventually slay her beloved.

"'Sir king,' said noble Siegfried, 'here sit at home and play, While I and your vassals are fighting far away; Here frolic with the ladies and many a merry mate, And trust to me for guarding your honor and estate.'

"Well heard the noble maiden the warrior's words the while, And looking o'er her shoulder, said with a scornful smile, 'As he thinks himself so mighty, I'll not deny a guest; Take they their arms and armor, and do as seems them best.

Some time after, Parzival came to the castle of Gurnemanz, a noble knight, with whom he remained for some time.

On the way she told him that this castle, which faced her father's, was occupied by a magician who kept many noble ladies in close confinement, and had even cruelly laden them with heavy chains.

"This fest was noble ynow, and nobliche y-do [done]; For mony was the faire ledy, that y-come was thereto.

"The fellowshipp of the Table Round, Soe famous in those dayes; Whereatt a hundred noble knights And thirty sat alwayes; Who for their deeds and martiall feates, As bookes done yett record, Amongst all other nations Wer feared through the world.

Merlin, by virtue of his magic powers, easily selected the knights worthy to belong to this noble institution, and the Archbishop of Canterbury duly blessed them and the board around which they sat.

"'Sir,and, good faith, I fain had added Knight, But that I heard thee call thyself a knave, Shamed am I that I so rebuked, reviled, Missaid thee; noble I am; and thought the King Scorn'd me and mine; and now thy pardon, friend, For thou hast ever answer'd courteously, And wholly bold thou art, and meek withal As any of Arthur's best, but, being knave, Hast mazed my wit: I marvel what thou art.'

it was a woefulle chance, As ever was in Christientie; When the knighte founde him wounded sore, And sawe the wild worme hanginge there, His sworde he from the scabbarde drewe; A piteous case, as ye shall heare; For when the two hostes saw the sworde, They joyned in battayle instantlye; Till of so manye noble knightes, On one side there was left but three.

All the enemy's host had perished, and of Arthur's noble army only one man remained alive, Sir Bedivere, a knight of the Round Table.

Is a bad noble or a poor but upright man more worthy to find favour?

His romantic story is as follows in the words of the Provençal biography: "Jaufre Rudel of Blaya was a very noble man, the Prince of Blaya; he fell in love with the Countess of Tripoli, though he had never seen her, for the good report that he had of her from the pilgrims who came from Antioch, and he made many poems concerning her with good tunes but poor words.

We know little of Arnaut's life; he was a noble of Riberac in Périgord.

ignoble 394 occurrences

fit That I to industry submit? Let mean mechanics, to be fed By business earn ignoble bread.

The tree's distinguished by the fruit, Be virtue then your sole pursuit; Set your great ancestors in view, Like them deserve the title too; 10 Like them ignoble actions scorn: Let virtue prove you greatly born.

To produce marketable negroes, to dissolve marriages, to ordain adulteries, to inflict ignoble punishment, to interdict instructionis this doing to others what we would that they should do to us?

Then, the tyranny of the majorities has no bounds; the majorities themselves are formed by means of ignoble contracts and monstrous alliances.

V. be ignoble &c adj., be nobody &c n.. Adj.

[Byron]; and homeless near a thousand homes I stood [Wordsworth]; far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife [Gray]; makes a solitude and calls it peace

The preparation and voyage to India, new companions, and ever-changing scenes, hushed my feelings, and produced a calm that might be called a state of blessednessa condition in which the ignoble and inferior ingredients of our nature were subdued by the divinity of mind.

If our opponent does not care for our mode of attack, and will not answer still more rudely, so as to plunge us into the ignoble rivalry of the Avantage, we are the victors and honor is on our side.

We saw many such mounds that day; and this one where the ignoble sixteen lay was the shortest of the lot.

It lies in yourselves: in true freedom, in the absence or conquest of every ignoble fear; in perfect self-government; in a power of contentment and peace, and the 'even flow of life' amid poverty, exile, disease, and the very valley of the shadow of death.

There is no making nobility ignoble, bravery cowardly, or prudence foolish: it is impossible.

And then I dreamed had come to reign True peace within our land again; Not peace that rots the soul with ease, Or those ignoble 'rivalries Of peace' more murderous than war, But just the simple peasant peace The weary world is waiting for.

If any creature be so fortunate That lives in grace of your all gracious selfe, Though I am well perswaded 'tis not I, I vow by all the rites of vertuous love, Be he ignoble, of the basest sort, To please you, Madame, Ile renounce my suite And be a speciall meane unto your father To grant your hearts affection, though I die.

Hearing all this said about such an ignoble and weak animal as the rabbit, no wonder that the early missionaries and travelers spoke of such fables with undisguised contempt, and never mentioned them without excuses for putting on record trivialities so utter.

I spoke of the ignoble environment, the material hardships, the masterpieces written at night to be condemned in the morning, the songs of his heart that were too great for his immature voice to sing; and all the while I bade them watch the fire of his faith burning with a constant and quenchless flame.

Risen against the conceit of riches, and the hypocrisies of Society, against unimpassioned and unimaginative religion, against ignoble success and the complacent economics that hewed mankind into statistics to fit their abstractionsone and all, in spite of their variety or mutual hostility, they were rebels, and their personality expressed itself in rebellion.

THE GREAT UNKNOWN There are strange regions where the monotony of ignoble streets is broken only by an occasional church, a Board School, or a public-house.

There had been moments of uncertainty, moments of ennui, but never of dangeruntil to-night, when she had fallen from grace and yielded to an impulse, once ignoble, but now ignoble no longer, to bring Markham at all hazards to her feet.

There had been moments of uncertainty, moments of ennui, but never of dangeruntil to-night, when she had fallen from grace and yielded to an impulse, once ignoble, but now ignoble no longer, to bring Markham at all hazards to her feet.

Who is there whose grief is not enhanced at sight of thee, O bull of the Bharata race, engaged in the ignoble office of a cook, so entirely beneath thee and calling thyself as one of Vallava caste?

His able and intrepid exposure of Catiline's conspiracy brought him the highest popularity, but he was attacked, in turn, by the ignoble Clodius, who obtained his banishment in 58 B.C.

Why should she suspect anything ignoble of you?" Silence fell.

You have overcome far greater difficulties than this, yet night after night you go on suffering ignoble defeat at this point.

Everybody read the story, and most persons cried out against so ignoble a hero, so mean a history, and so misdirected a literary energy.

It is not, I confess, a pretty business, matching your brute strength against that of a fellow man, and as I cast myself upon him and felt his hard-blown breath on my face, I hated myself more than I hated him for engaging in so ignoble a contest.

Do we say   noble   or  ignoble