| 单词 | highborn |
| 例句 | Skahaz was convinced that somewhere in Meereen the Sons of the Harpy had a highborn overlord, a secret general commanding an army of shadows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Is it true that the Modegan nobility regard haggling as a contemptible activity for those of any highborn station?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z The Wall offered few of the comforts that southron ladies and little highborn girls were used to, and the Nightfort offered none. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z "Whenever highborn girls came into the shop with their lathers, my master told me I was to bend the knee, and speak only when they spoke to me, and call them m’lady." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They were too precious, too important, too highborn and rich. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z “Now there’s a highborn name for a lowly lad,” the woman said. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z They were looking for a highborn girl, daughter of the King's Hand, not for a skinny boy with his hair chopped off. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Satin was all grace, dancing with three serving girls in turn but never presuming to approach a highborn lady. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Sansa kept hoping he would tell Arya to behave herself and act like the highborn lady she was supposed to be, but he never did, he only hugged her and thanked her for the flowers. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z He strutted up and down before them, telling them how they must never look the highborn in the eye, nor speak until spoken to, nor get in his lordship's way. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Heralds cried his name and deeds for all to hear, and the noble knights and highborn ladies cheered as lustily as cutthroats at a cockfight. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “And when he returned, I suppose he married the most beautiful highborn lady in the land and had a dozen children,” Shae said drily. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z When she had been a slave in Yunkai, she had played for every highborn family in the city. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Almost every highborn woman in the city sat at the long trestle tables, along with a handful of old men and young boys. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z She was clad all in black, from head to heel, and wore no gold nor gems, but she was highborn, that was plain to see. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “He is highborn. He is a prince. In fact, if he had not committed a great crime, he would be the king of the bears by now.” The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z She acts as ifshe has forgotten that, as if she were highborn and fair to look upon, instead of a slave in a grotesquerie. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z He laughed often, and well, and spoke amiably to highborn lords and lowly serving wehches alike. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He was highborn, the son of the most pow-erful lord in the realm, the brother of the queen. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Come-into-my-castle was a game for highborn children, one meant to teach them courtesy, heraldry, and a thing or two about their lord father’s friends and foes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z They dressed him in the finest clothes, the kind a highborn goddess would wear to her wedding. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z Downstream, conunoners and highborn captains alike could see the hot green death swirling toward their rafts and carracks and ferries, borne on the current of the Blackwater. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In his dreams, she was beautiful, and highborn, and her eyes were kind. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Septa Mordane says most . . . most highborn girls have their flowering at twelve or thirteen." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z "Lady Sansa," he called from the saddle, "surely my sister has asked you to join the other highborn ladies in Maegor's?" A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They were men of middling birth, by and large; merchants' sons, lesser lordlings, sometimes even foreigners, but judging from their results, far more able than their highborn predecessors. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They were too old for college, too old to marry and too highborn to work. An Enthralling New Look at the Mystery of Lizzie Borden 2019-03-13T04:00:00Z For that scene Mr. Bartlett switches to more naturalistic speech — unpunctuated, quick, pungent, full of sentence fragments — as Shakespeare did when he shifted focus from highborn to low-ranking characters. Mike Bartlett Turns to Shakespeare to Voice His ‘King Charles III’ 2015-11-09T05:00:00Z It is while fishing around in her subconscious that Dr. Bruckner discovers her previous incarnation as Melinda, the highborn daughter of an antislavery crusader in Georgian England. Review: ‘On a Clear Day,’ Eternally Odd, Gets Yet Another Life 2018-06-29T04:00:00Z Unless you, gentle reader, are a highborn scion of the landed aristocracy, the inheritor of wealth and privilege, the proud bearer of a patrician sigil, do you imagine they would care about you? Our “Game of Thrones” fantasy: Democracy is almost nonexistent in Westeros—and we like it that way 2016-05-01T04:00:00Z This is a scene in the recent cinematic remake of Jack London’s 1903 novel The Call of the Wild, which tracks the journey of Buck, a highborn St Bernard collie cross. Have dog actors had their last on-screen bark? 2020-03-18T04:00:00Z In 1923, Jean Toomer — highborn but an orphan and a drifter, a young man with secrets — published the single, slender novel upon which his reputation rests. A Century Later, a Novel by an Enigma of the Harlem Renaissance Is Still Relevant 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z Many highborn youths and maidens serve for a few years after their flowerings, to honor the gods.” “Snow White and the Huntsman”: A would-be fantasy classic 2012-05-30T23:00:00Z Don’t be distracted from Norman’s true theme; namely, the crushingly limited life choices for women — even the most highborn women — of this period. Louise Penny’s Most Haunting Novel Yet 2020-10-09T04:00:00Z You need grains of life for an ethical dilemma, you need an understanding of work and people, whether in 90 minutes of trash or something more highborn. Uncouth, Cranky and Rude: Movies in 1988 Were a Far Cry From Today 2020-10-02T04:00:00Z A forbidden romance between highborn and lowborn Indians, and a revolt among the villagers when a medical intervention is unsuccessful, are negligible subplots. ‘Black Narcissus’ Review: Nuns, Mountains, High Passion 2020-11-22T05:00:00Z He signs his poems — and, later, his scabrous articles in the Parisian press — Lucien de Rubempré, using his highborn mother’s maiden name. ‘Lost Illusions’ Review: The Sweet Smell of Success 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Why does Desdemona marry Othello, a much-older general who is battle-scarred and — because he is Black and she is white — sure to shock her highborn Venetian family? Review: A Pandemic ‘Othello,’ Socially and Otherwise Distant 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z A wealthy commoner, he craves acceptance by those highborn and dedicates himself to learning their refined pastimes, like fencing and dancing the minuet. Review: Rich, Crude and Craving Acceptance in 17th-Century France 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z Monty is the young man who discovers to his great shock that his unfortunate late mother was disinherited from the highborn D'Ysquith clan for marrying a Castilian musician for love. 'A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder' kills it at the Ahmanson 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z Prominent cultural anthropologist Roland Girtler also doesn't understand the excitement, noting that throughout history, courtesans and highborn ladies of dubious repute were always welcome at balls. Ruby's presence shakes up staid Vienna Opera Ball 2011-03-03T14:17:28Z Ships, especially warships, were microcosms of society at large, filled with young boys and teenagers and old men, the uneducated and the highborn, all speaking a particular language. Review | Anything can go wrong at sea. On this voyage, everything did. 2023-04-18T04:00:00Z Historically, British queens have tapped highborn “ladies-in-waiting” to provide company to the monarch and serve as personal assistants and loyal friends. Camilla replaces traditional ladies-in-waiting with ‘Queen’s Companions’ 2022-11-27T05:00:00Z That a hotheaded, highborn Southerner killed a working man confirmed Northern fears about the intemperate behavior of Southern defenders of slavery, according to Gugliotta. A hungry congressman didn’t get the breakfast he ordered. So he shot the waiter. 2018-06-23T04:00:00Z Named her late husband’s successor in his will, 25-year-old Eleonora proceeds to dismiss the highborn crooks, liars and sexual predators who make up the Holy Royal Council. For your listening pleasure: 3 recommended audiobooks 2018-01-07T05:00:00Z Even highborn ladies, such as Elizabeth I, lamented the loss of their looks. The Real Lives of Women in the Tudor Period 2017-07-17T04:00:00Z Naturally, a Simon Legree figure is always handy to do their dirty work, while highborn white ladies dither prettily in the background… What Critics Said About the Original 'Roots' 2016-05-26T04:00:00Z He ended up falling in love with the highborn daughter of an aristocratic family, named Juana, and marrying her. Why Casinos Are a Godsend For Native Americans 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z This explains why the first writers of literary prose in Japanese were highborn women, as were their readers. Why “The Tale of Genji” Is Still Seductive 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z The brutalization of women has a context: it’s part of a social chain that has highborn women traded in alliances at the top end and treated as plunder at the low end of the scale. RECAP: Game of Thrones Watch: Burning Down the House 2014-05-05T03:53:01Z Like the recent trial of Bo Xilai, the fallen former politician, the case has become an intensely watched and debated parable about the privileges and limited accountability of the Communist Party’s highborn. Rape Trial Casts Attention on Offspring of China’s Elite 2013-08-28T09:01:38Z She and I have met but once, yet I know that she is gentle and highborn, and worthy of nothing but the love of which her own Christian heart is composed. Ladies on Horseback Learning, Park-Riding, and Hunting, with Hints upon Costume, and Numerous Anecdotes 2012-04-23T02:00:28.843Z He refuses to go into highborn society where noble ladies are, preferring play and duelling-clubs, and you dread his making a m�salliance, rather than which you would accept poor me as a pis-aller.' My Lords of Strogue, Vol. I (of III) A Chronicle of Ireland, from the Convention to the Union 2012-02-15T03:00:34.177Z His faults were great, as his merits were transcendent; and presently in the time of his need his highborn associates remembered only the former. Chippinge Borough 2012-02-15T03:00:32.210Z From this port went forth the mailed soldier, the robed friar, the adventurous noble, and the brave and highborn Spanish ladies, who accompanied their husbands to such great distances over the sea. A History of the Philippines 2011-12-12T03:00:36.870Z In stumbling to the door, she upset the basket, and—oh, horror!—the lobster, in all its vulgar size and brilliancy, was revealed to the highborn eyes of a Tudor. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z "It is not well to know too much of that, highborn sir," replied Henner, thoughtfully, shaking his gray head, as he leant upon his pilgrim's staff. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z My liege," he said aloud, "the margrave is without the gate; the highborn junker is with him. King Eric and the Outlaws, Vol. 2 or, the Throne, the Church, and the People in the Thirteenth Century. Vol. I. 2011-07-07T02:00:26.270Z With this suggestion, I remain, with distinguished respect, "Your highborn grace's submissive "Joachim Spener, Court Chaplain. Titan: A Romance Vol. II (of 2) 2011-06-14T02:00:26.670Z That he would dare to steal her away, a highborn mulata. Caribbee 2011-06-05T02:00:16.273Z When she entered the field she was conducted by her juvenile escort to the throne, on which she seated herself, and with a playfully assumed queenly dignity that became her highborn air. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z "Do you not share my wish, highborn sir?" he inquired. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z "I heard a hound, highborn sister, Stood baying at the moon; I rose and drove him from your wall, Lest you should wake too soon." Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z An earldom thrown away; the haughty, highborn noble! Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z With one like you for my bride—my wife—highborn, gifted, lovelier than all others, these hopes would soon be realised. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z In plain words, the poor fisher's lad fell deeply in love with the highborn heiress of Castle Cor. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z I should willingly bear your banner, highborn count, but what a man has promised to our Lord and the Holy Virgin he must abide by. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Widowed and without means, she had been quite willing to accept such a position in the establishment of the wealthy parvenu to whom she had been recommended by some one of her highborn relatives. The Alpine Fay A Romance 2011-02-11T03:00:27.700Z The noble was the father of the highborn maiden he loved. Captain Kyd, Vol. II or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-04-11T02:00:12.290Z Cloelia, a highborn maiden sent among them, escaped at night and on horseback swam across the foaming Tiber to Rome. Ancient Rome The Lives of Great Men Now it remains for me, ere he can learn the secret of his birth, to send him where low and highborn are all on a level! Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z "Tell me, highborn sir," he inquired, "is it truth, that Dean Grand has spoken with you, and that you have considered, and will subscribe the agreement?" The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Young, fair, and highborn, I may not choose on whom I will bestow my love! Comic Tragedies Written by 'Jo' and 'Meg' and Acted by The 'Little Women' Many of these were the free-will offerings of the rich, and the fruits of highborn ladies’ industry. Rambles in an Old City comprising antiquarian, historical, biographical and political associations Counts, and princes, and princely prelates; even a few highborn dames had been pleased to immortalize their luck. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales For these, which among men are regarded praiseworthy attributes of highborn gentlemen—for these shall I make him unhappy, and myself—for it will kill me—miserable? Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z But I may beg you to remember, that we are here in a public tavern; and that I, and the highborn Count Jacob of Halland, are present. The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z "Are those noble souls, the highborn and beautiful Valeria, the good and gentle Callirhoë, exposed to such appalling perils?" Valeria The Martyr of the Catacombs I almost fancied that she loved me,—she, the proud, highborn, beautiful lady. Flora Lyndsay or, Passages in an Eventful Life Vol. II. I have only to think of our highborn neighbours, and of their indignation when they hear that Count ---- has married his housekeeper, to feel ready for the wedding at once. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales I love her! highborn as she is, I have dared to send my thoughts up to her! Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z "Do I see aright?" he said: "is it the highborn Count Gerhard of Holstein I have the honour to salute?" The Childhood of King Erik Menved An Historical Romance 2011-07-07T02:00:35.757Z Before Richardson and Rousseau wrote, the memoirs of highborn dames may be searched in vain for a single expression of sisterly feeling toward women in a lower rank of society than their own. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) This is how such highborn people as we came to be in a kitchen.' Hans Andersen's Fairy Tales Second Series I fancy more than one of these highborn ladies, must have gone green and yellow with envy and jealousy. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales His mind was struggling between filial affection and ambition—between love for the highborn maiden and duty to his grandsire. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z The Mink he seeks the gentrylass; He eyes the gods above; He laughs their might to scorn, the while He hunts his highborn love. The Buttoned Sky Frau Goethe found the highborn sisters so simple-minded, so unaffected in their manners, that she was delighted with them. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Then, as she was young and highborn, as well as distinguished for her beauty and her self-control, an illustrious consular named Cerealis paid court to her with great assiduity. Women of Early Christianity When he had been about two years away, he wrote to announce his intended marriage with a highborn young lady in Sweden, and to ask for his father's consent. L'Arrabiata and Other Tales "Can the highborn heiress of Earl Fitzgerald be served by one so humble?" he asked, in a tone slightly tinged with his former gloomy humour. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z Squires wallowed lifeless in pools of their highborn blood. The Buttoned Sky The highborn lady-in-waiting was shocked and objected to their plebeian occupation, but Goethe's mother threatened to turn the door key rather than permit interference with the sport of her princely guests. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) It is likely that he felt more appreciative gratitude for the books than he did either for the official dignity or the highborn bride. Women of Early Christianity For they honor money; and the noble weds the baseborn, and the base the highborn; wealth has mixed the race. Greek Women Like many among the highborn and educated of that day, Lester was not above the superstitious notions of the times, and assented to, perhaps without firmly believing, the existence and power of sorceresses. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z At the western entrance to Rosk's mine, he peered out for the first sign of the highborn enemies. The Buttoned Sky The world of highborn womanhood alone attracts her attention. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) The humble reader is tickled in his own self-esteem by identifying himself for the time with the highborn or noble or beautiful character in the story. Psychology A Study Of Mental Life It is, this earliest Italian poetry, like the more refined poetry of troubadours and minnesingers, eminently an importuning of highborn but loosely living women. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II What had he to do with the love of highborn maidens? Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z “I pray you pardon, but the highborn the Baron Savitch out of Moscow, of the General Ignatieff’s suite, suffers himself in a terrible fit, and appears to die.” Stories by American Authors, Volume 10 This has been roughly translated thus: "Beneath this tomb the highborn Margaret's laid, Who had two husbands and yet died a maid." Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) She loved Crates, his words, and his way of life, and paid no attention to any of her suitors, however rich or highborn or handsome. Five Stages of Greek Religion High above all this deferential male crowd, moves the lady of the castle: highborn, proud, having brought her husband a dower of fiefs often equal to his own, and of vassals devoted to her race. Euphorion Being Studies of the Antique and the Mediaeval in the Renaissance - Vol. II It is only for the lowborn virgin to be taught it by some highborn youth. Captain Kyd (Vol 1 of 2) or, The Wizard of the Sea 2011-05-06T02:00:10.447Z Studies finished, his heart firm in his lofty purpose, highborn schemes began their struggling claim for his attention. A Story of One Short Life, 1783 to 1818 Princes and knights, highborn ladies, rich merchants, prelates, and abbesses bathed, jested, and led a gay life. Women of the Teutonic Nations Woman: In all ages and in all countries Vol. 8 (of 10) Charles himself, with Catharine and the highborn but profligate ladies who disgraced her court, emerged with the morning light, in splendid array, into the reeking streets. Henry IV, Makers of History It was not for very many years that Lafayette was to profit by his highborn mother's devoted care and foresight. Lafayette Unspoiled and neat, obedient at all times, She seemed already versed in songs and rhymes, And with a highborn courtesy and art, Though but a babe, she played a maiden's part. Laments Sulpice and his soldiers burst out into loud shouts of approbation, and the highborn guests retire silently and disgusted. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas His coat is blue and upon his face Is a look of highborn, restless pride, There is somewhat about him of martial grace And an empty sleeve hangs at his side. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume IX (of X) She is very old, very highborn, and of irascible temper. The Eyes of Asia Yet the indignity must have been cruelly galling to the highborn and gallant men who were thus mercilessly paraded to their doom amid the cries of the populace. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. We seem to gather that she was young, hazel-eyed, beautiful, and some one’s Cousin; highborn, and of high spirit; but unhappily dependent and insolvent; living, perhaps, on the not-too-gracious bounty of monied relatives. Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History Minka, though despairing of ever belonging to one so highborn has found means to liberate him, and is now ready to suffer for her interference. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas "How kind and considerate!" murmured the highborn dames as they turned away. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 His mother said 'fie,' and his sisters cried 'shame,' His highborn ladies cried 'shame' from their place: 30 They said 'fie' when they only heard my name, But fell silent when they saw my face. Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems You see what we have brought ourselves to by giving credit to our highborn Tories—to such men as Fenwick, Tate, Green, and Allgood. Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. Volume I. "I love her as my father loved you—my father, of whom I am the eldest son—son of a highborn father, son of a highborn mother—outcast—outcast!" The Hawk of Egypt No, I'm American, but I'm very highborn nevertheless. The Hosts of the Air Put her in any drawing-room in the world, and she would at once be recognised as a highborn Englishwoman. Five Little Plays Half an hour later, Haward rose from his chair and bowed low as to some highborn and puissant dame. Audrey Equal, strict, ready justice for every one; no favors to the highborn and rich—rather, in case of doubt, the humble should have the preference. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 Here was a highborn man, a man whose very manners bespoke for him years at court, a life spent in the upper world, not among the common people. Truxton King A Story of Graustark His night's rest was refreshing to both mind and body, and, after a good breakfast, he went once more toward the hotel which was frequented by the highborn and the very highborn. The Hosts of the Air My sister was certainly very beautiful, and I could not wonder to see the numbers of handsome and highborn cavaliers who clustered around her that evening. For The Admiral Because he loved the fields and forests, made Few banquetings for highborn winebibbers, Eschewed the city and led no sumptuous life, She, courtly, sneered at his uncourtliness, Deeming his manners of a bygone mode. The Poems of William Watson She was not a highborn lady, only the daughter of a working man, but she was as proud and haughty as she was beautiful. Knights of Art; stories of the Italian painters In stumbling to the door, she upset the basket, and—oh horror!—the lobster, in all its vulgar size and brilliancy, was revealed to the highborn eyes of a Tudor! Little Women I am highborn and very highborn, although it's not my fault. The Hosts of the Air Many savages have not larger vocabularies; many highborn ladies have a less gentle and cultivated enunciation. The Spread Eagle and Other Stories Welshwomen might marry Englishmen, but none of the highborn Cymry might aspire to wed an Englishwoman. Cameos from English History, from Rollo to Edward II But Lady Helen was the most spontaneous of mortals, and the only highborn woman he had ever met who was really, and not only apparently, free from the 'nonsense of rank.' Robert Elsmere But when the highborn wish to unbend they become vulgar. Plays: the Father; Countess Julie; the Outlaw; the Stronger And Madame the Countess, his wife, and her train of highborn young women--imagine the cracking chilblains on the hands of the whole fair community. The Mountebank He became at once the centre of that little circle of highborn wits and poets, the elder wits and poets of the Elizabethan age, that were then in their meridian there. The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded And mind, this is not a sin of rich, and learned, and highborn men only. Sermons on National Subjects Wealthy, highborn, and popular, he was gradually devoting his advantages in the freest way to Rose's service. Robert Elsmere The maiden she smiled, and in jewels arrayed her, Of thrones and tiaras already dreamt she; And proud was the step, as her bridegroom conveyed her In pomp to his home, of that highborn Ladye. The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes When age was approaching, he addressed himself to his highborn patrons with petitions in well-set style. Shakspere and Montaigne It may be that his rough soldier-manners consorted ill with his imperious highborn bride. The Virginians Behold then our future poet beginning his knightly training as page to a highborn lady. Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived I looked in admiration at this highborn Englishwoman whose true Christian humility enables her to do the scavengering work usually performed only by "untouchables." Autobiography of a Yogi The general aspect of the affairs of our highborn American nations of the south has been rather of approaching than of settled tranquillity. A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Volume 2, part 2: John Quincy Adams What men of that age eclipsed or equalled the address and daring of those delicate and highborn women? The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 02, No. 09, July, 1858 The young Irishman was not a little touched and elated by the highborn damsel's partiality for him. The Virginians A Princess of India might inaugurate it, but others as fair and highborn were to come after her, recipients of the same worship. The Prince of India — Volume 02 Above all, we encounter an extraordinary personage, the great, highborn Highland chief who sold himself as a spy to the English Government. Pickle the Spy; Or, the Incognito of Prince Charles The Venetians behaved from first to last as commercial buccaneers; a fickle and frivolous ambition, rather than calculating villainy, characterised their highborn associates. Medieval Europe A picked crew of chiefs and highborn vassals rowed him slowly down the fiord, while in their wake a fleet of vessels followed. Vandrad the Viking, the Feud and the Spell The bond that in your drugged sleep bound you to this highborn knave is severed by God's sword of death. Red Eve Laugh at early passion ye who will; a highborn boy madly in love with a lowly ginger-beer girl! The Fitz-Boodle Papers You are beautiful, you are highborn, you are learned, you are brave, and you are good.' The Brethren The selfish, base, covetous, father-in-law was not at all desirous to have a highborn beggar and the posterity of a highborn beggar to maintain. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 Highest in rank among these highborn warriors was a lad of sixteen, Philip Duke of Chartres, son of the Duke of Orleans, and nephew of the King of France. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 But Payne had a far braver spirit than those highborn plotters with whom it was his misfortune to have been connected. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Most likely, the immigrants, highborn and low, did not come with the intention of overthrowing the sense and morals prevailing at the time. The Civilization of Illiteracy This highborn Minister had been sent by the Lord Treasurer as ambassador to the needy poet. Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 In various parts of the church were tombs of knights, and highborn dames, of gorgeous workmanship, with their effigies in colored marble. The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon I see your highborn women the wantons of stranger lords, and your princes their servants; the canals run red with the blood of your children, your gateways are blocked with their bones. Montezuma's Daughter It was the boast of the highborn Milesian that, from the twelfth century to the seventeenth, every generation of his family had been in arms against the English crown. The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 Was he not Rajah Hassim and was not the other a man of strong heart, of strong arm, of proud courage, a man great enough to protect highborn princes—a friend? The Rescue A Romance of the Shallows In walking she had the free, light step of the highborn maidens who, in primal times, pressed the flowers as they passed without crushing them. The Secret of the Night He will be taken by her highborn family and educated, and he must forget all about his mamma. Dawn O'Hara, the Girl Who Laughed The young Colonna was much struck by her beauty, and more by her gentle and highborn grace. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes They say, my lord, These highborn dames do so affect your Grace That where you go they throng like flies around you, Each seeking for your favour. La Sainte Courtisane Therefore he brought the highborn maiden to the pass that she gave over her unruly will, which she asserted there afore. The Nibelungenlied Baroncelli was a weak man, his sons committed every excess in mimicry of the highborn tyrants of Padua and Milan. Rienzi, Last of the Roman Tribunes Dietrich now bound Hagen and led him to where he found the highborn queen; into her hand he gave the bravest warrior that ever bare a sword. The Nibelungenlied |
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