gentle birth

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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

Though of gentle birth, his father was a moneylender.

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

I learned that they had assembled all the prisoners of gentle birth in one place together.

From The Golden Hope A Story of the Time of King Alexander the Great by Fuller, Robert H.

So the king's daughters passed on their way with music and merriment of every kind, and the youth served them with all the honor and courtesy due maidens of gentle birth.

From The Swedish Fairy Book by Various