nobility
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When Elle wants something, she figures out a way to get it and comes by her success honestly and with nobility.
From Salon ● Jul. 6, 2026
Beatrice's husband Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi is a property developer, descended from Italian nobility, while Eugenie's, Jack Brooksbank, has worked in hospitality and marketing.
From BBC ● Feb. 6, 2026
Ha: Even reading the scripts, I was like, how are they going to make this work, especially acknowledging the class difference as well, nobility and her being a servant.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2026
Ms. Allen concedes their regionalism but argues that they were wiser for understanding that a “provincial backwater offers as full a panoply of human folly, nobility, tragedy, and absurdity as any great metropolis.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
To infiltrate the impenetrable Ice Court and snatch a prize from the bastion of Fjerdan nobility and military might?
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
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It captures all the nobilities of the sport, in all its splendor, in two minutes flat.
From Time ● Apr. 6, 2015
As a result, moviegoers get a full treatment of the giant-sized nobilities and epic despairs that swirl up from Victorian drama, reflected in the iridescent mirror of fin de siecle Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Britain and France had hereditary nobilities; Britain still has a queen.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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It may be sought for in the ignoble paths of mere pleasure, amidst the sanctities of human love, amidst the nobilities of intellectual effort and pursuit.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
Feudalism formed the starting-point also of the later social nobilities of Europe.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 3 "Fenton, Edward" to "Finistere" by Various
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