nobility

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From Parsi philanthropists and Maharashtrian nobility to mill workers and marginalised migrant settlers, the photographs showcase the city's many faces that stake a claim to the making of Bombay.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

But Mr. Belcher doesn’t succeed in making Coriolanus’ wariness of empty words a mark of his nobility of spirit—imperfect though it is.

From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 14, 2026

Ample opportunity exists for anybody to advance in this feudal system, provided that person can impress the right nobility.

From Salon • Jan. 17, 2026

Dalla Ragione has sought answers to fruit mysteries in monastery orchards, the gardens of nobility and common allotments.

From Barron's • Nov. 14, 2025

The Mayan people were governed by a system in which the priesthood and the nobility shared the power to make and enforce laws that affected all of Mayan society.

From "An Indigenous People’s History of the United States" by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz