nobility

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He recounted the wonders of this tool in his book, "Artistic Cookery: A Practical System Suited for the Use of the Nobility and Gentry and for Public Entertainments," in 1870.

From Salon • Feb. 8, 2023

The new sanctions target a Russian ship, the Ostap Sheremeta, involved in laying pipe for the project that is nearly complete; the Russian owner of another vessel, JSC Nobility; and the construction firm Konstanta OOO.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 20, 2021

In their book on the FSB, called The New Nobility, Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan say Mr Putin expanded the FSB's powers by enabling it to send agents abroad for special operations, including intelligence gathering.

From BBC • Feb. 2, 2018

Samuel Adams called it “as rapid a Stride towards an hereditary Military Nobility as was ever made in so short a time,” and George Washington was forced to disavow the effort.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The only thing there was an old copy of Nature’s Nobility: A Wizarding Genealogy.

From "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows" by J.K. Rowling