Nobility

(noun.) the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct.

(noun.) a privileged class holding hereditary titles.

(noun.) the state of being of noble birth.

费理斯编辑

• The councils, which, in the colony legislatures, correspond to the house of lords in Great Britain, are not composed of a hereditary nobility. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• I must do, to live, what others of my countrymen, even with nobility at their backs, may have to do some day--work. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• It was, therefore, a different thing in its origins from the nobility of the early Aryans, which was a republican nobility of elders and leading men. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Many of their dominions were less both in size and value than the larger estates of the British nobility. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• There was something to be done before she left the house: to be done with all the nobility she knew how to put into such gestures. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Early Buddhism was certainly producing noble lives, and it is not only through reason that the latent response to nobility is aroused in our minds. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Sab Than lay dead beside his father, and the corpses of the flower of Zodangan nobility and chivalry covered the floor of the bloody shambles. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• The author hopes she has done justice to that nobility, generosity, and humanity, which in many cases characterize individuals at the South. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The emperor of Lilliput, attended by several of the nobility, comes to see the author in his confinement. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• Why, what had I to fear, I thought, when there was this nobility in the soul of a labouring man's daughter! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mix with the young nobility. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Charles II of England was in his pay, and so were most of the Polish nobility, presently to be described. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Shall I bow my head before them, and with servile gesture sell my nobility for life? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Flushed with victory and the sense of freedom fairly won, her people did for a time rise towards nobility. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• He had proposed for Miss Swartz, but had been rejected scornfully by the partisans of that lady, who married her to a young sprig of Scotch nobility. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

哈洛录入