gentle birth
Example Sentences
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Though of gentle birth, his father was a moneylender.
From Time Magazine Archive
Still, as talismans of gentle birth, Apostle spoons were an exquisite beginning to a surfeit of flatware, which, by 1911, yielded services of 138 individual pieces per place setting, from pea spoons to asparagus tongs.
From Time Magazine Archive
Between its gentle birth and welcome demise, Hugo carved an awesome arc of destruction in a 2,300-mile sweep from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe to the Carolinas.
From Time Magazine Archive
The stanch and speedy animal over which the reins were drawn, a splendid bay of gentle birth, had courage and endurance by heredity, and thus we made time.
From Collection of Nebraska Pioneer Reminiscences by Daughters of the American Revolution. Nebraska
For of course Elsie was judged by the servant's position she had held; there was no one to tell of her gentle birth and breeding.
From A Man's Hearth by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)
