gentle birth
Example Sentences
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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
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
Although placed in so low a sphere as that in which I then beheld her, there was a something about her that proclaimed her to be of gentle birth.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 by Various
You know Dorothy is of gentle birth as are you on your father’s side.
From Voices; Birth-Marks; The Man and the Elephant by Holt, Mathew Joseph
