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Highborn

adjective
1.
Belonging to the peerage.  Synonyms: coroneted, titled.  "The titled classes"






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"Highborn" Quotes from Famous Books



... was so overpowered by the unexpected meeting, that he thought not of inquiring how she had obtained admittance. We have observed that women in the inferior ranks of society continue much briefer time in hysterics, swoons, and such-like, than the highborn and well educated, who know how to make the most of all matters of the kind. Barbara rapidly revived, and as rapidly urged Robin to heed her message, and to take her away, informing him in the same breath, that she had pushed against that portion ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall

... Mackintosh, in the presence of Lord Derwentwater, who took little notice of the Brigadier, but turning to another gentleman, said: "You see what we have brought ourselves to by giving credit to our highborn Tories—to such men as Fenwick, Tate, Green, and Allgood. If you outlive misfortune, and return to live in the North, I desire you never to be seen in converse with such rogues in disguise, who promised to join us, and animated us to rise with them." The gentleman ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745. - Volume I. • Mrs. Thomson

... noblemen were to be landholders and officers; to the citizens belonged the towns, trade, manufacturing, instruction, and invention; to the peasant, the land and the menial work. But in his sphere each one was to be prosperous and happy. Equal, strict, ready justice for every one; no favors to the highborn and rich—rather, in case of doubt, the humble should have the preference. To increase the number of useful men; to make every activity as profitable and as perfect as possible; to buy as little as possible abroad; to produce everything at home, exporting the surplus—these were ...
— The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12 • Various

... Valladolid There lived a highborn maiden In a white house in a steep street With green doors and shutters, Her lips were like scarlet poppies And her hair like a black waterfall, And behind her ear she wore ...
— A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems • A. B. S. Tennyson



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