highborn
Example Sentences
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A highborn Athenian named Thucydides recognized at once that a transformative conflict was beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 21, 2025
It is while fishing around in her subconscious that Dr. Bruckner discovers her previous incarnation as Melinda, the highborn daughter of an antislavery crusader in Georgian England.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2018
That a hotheaded, highborn Southerner killed a working man confirmed Northern fears about the intemperate behavior of Southern defenders of slavery, according to Gugliotta.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 23, 2018
Unless you, gentle reader, are a highborn scion of the landed aristocracy, the inheritor of wealth and privilege, the proud bearer of a patrician sigil, do you imagine they would care about you?
From Salon ● May 1, 2016
“Is it true that the Modegan nobility regard haggling as a contemptible activity for those of any highborn station?”
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
