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
Targaryens often place dragon eggs in cribs with their highborn babies with the hope that their hatchlings will naturally bond with them, which doesn’t always happen.
From Salon • Jul. 23, 2024
He signs his poems — and, later, his scabrous articles in the Parisian press — Lucien de Rubempré, using his highborn mother’s maiden name.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
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
Downstream, conunoners and highborn captains alike could see the hot green death swirling toward their rafts and carracks and ferries, borne on the current of the Blackwater.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
