baseborn

Example Sentences

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Some young squire or hedge knight, like as not . . . though by the vehemence with which Lord Hoster had opposed him, he might have been a tradesman's son qr baseborn apprentice, even a singer.

From Literature

Jacob the supplanter, Jacob the changeling, Jacob the baseborn!

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If it were so, the Countess would be no Countess, Anna Lovel would simply be Anna Murray, penniless, baseborn, and a fit wife for the tailor, should the tailor think fit to take her.

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One might be a noble and still not belong to the knightly order, and, on the other hand, one baseborn might be raised to knighthood on account of some valorous deed.

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O unhappy and baseborn men! you who prefer to depart from this life under the name of Hortensius rather than of Cato!

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