gentle birth
Example Sentences
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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
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
Other references to the children received in nunneries confirms the impression that they were of gentle birth.
From Medieval English Nunneries c. 1275 to 1535 by Eileen Power
"Oh, do you see, now, how her gentle birth shines through her lowly condition!" she said, quickly.
From Judith Shakespeare Her love affairs and other adventures by William Black
