nobleness
Example Sentences
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Maybe Benjamin Franklin put it best when he wrote: "To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."
From Inc • Feb. 23, 2012
"The nobleness of life," they cried, "is to do thus," and as they "kiss'd away kingdoms" they ecstatically proclaimed the world well lost for love.
From Time Magazine Archive
Next day Governor Murray reinstated them, praised their "nobleness of spirit and good citizenship," added that he would pardon them even if they were criminally prosecuted.
From Time Magazine Archive
She stood tall, with a nobleness to her stature that I had seen often when we walked on the llano.
From "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya
With a lifted head he raised their tragedy to nobleness and gravity.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
