nobility
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It gives them, he says, “the grace and nobility that they deserve.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 9, 2026
There, the only individual not paralyzed by nobility is Peggy’s snobbish mother-in-law-to-be, played by a delicious Phylicia Rashad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
The film seems to suggest that we — the audience to this specious display of white-knighting nobility — are monsters who can act just as heinous as the criminals.
From Salon ● Sep. 26, 2026
Even back in 13th century Imperial China, the lengthy talons grown by nobility and the delicately carved brass nail shields which usually guarded them were a symbol of a life unmarred by manual labour.
From BBC ● Sep. 25, 2026
She shrugged again, a silent comment about the inexplicable desires of the nobility.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
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It captures all the nobilities of the sport, in all its splendor, in two minutes flat.
From Time ● Apr. 6, 2015
As a result, moviegoers get a full treatment of the giant-sized nobilities and epic despairs that swirl up from Victorian drama, reflected in the iridescent mirror of fin de siecle Paris.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Britain and France had hereditary nobilities; Britain still has a queen.
From "Class Matters" by The New York Times
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By conversation with that which is in itself excellent, magnanimous, lowly and just, the lover comes to a warmer love of these nobilities, and a quicker apprehension of them.
From What a Young Woman Ought to Know by Mary Wood-Allen
I doubt if their nobilities would take much interest in a scientific experiment were there no profit at the end of it.
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr
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