noblesse

How To Use noblesse In A Sentence

• Florence write and establish their final condemnation of noblesse living by rapine, those 'Ordinamenti della Giustizia,' which practically excluded all idle persons from government, and determined that the priors, or leaders of the State, should be priors, or leaders of its arts and productive labour; that its head 'podesta' or 'power' should be the standard-bearer of justice; and its council or parliament composed of charitable men, or good men: "boni viri," in the sense from which the French formed their noun 'bonte.' Val d'Arno
• The argument echoed historian G.M. Trevelyan's quip about the French Revolution: ‘if the French noblesse had been capable of playing cricket with their peasants, their chateaux would never have been burnt.’
• They did so without hope of further profit and out of a sense of noblesse oblige.
• His wife Françoise was the most beautiful and accomplished woman of her time, the "perle de noblesse, de gentilesse, et de savoir;" and moreover possessed of the rich inheritance of her uncle Bertrand de Dinan, of the Brittany & Its Byways
• Fine sentiment, this noblesse oblige (cf. the archangelic dignity in Milton, Paradise Lost, I think). Cyropaedia
• Tholouse, whom Montoni had mentioned with more eclat to his own vanity than credit to their discretion, or regard to truth, she determined to give concerts, though she had neither ear nor taste for music; conversazioni, though she had no talents for conversation; and to outvie, if possible, in the gaieties of her parties and the magnificence of her liveries, all the noblesse of The Mysteries of Udolpho
• They did so without hope of further profit and out of a sense of noblesse oblige.
• Historic nobility and royalty mostly understood the concept of noblesse obligee and ruling with the consent of the governed. Obama: Even Palin Denounced McCain's Robo-Slime
• The spirit of noblesse oblige is not simply absent: it is incomprehensible to the rising generation.
• Venetian noblesse, with their cool porticos and colonnades, overhung with poplars and cypresses of majestic height and lively verdure; on their rich orangeries, whose blossoms perfumed the air, and on the luxuriant willows, that dipped their light leaves in the wave, and sheltered from the sun the gay parties whose music came at intervals on the breeze. The Mysteries of Udolpho