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highborn
1. lands, at that time only the highborn had anywhere near the freedoms that we enjoy
2. without thinking about them, and even in those days, the highborn were subject to
3. democratic lands, at that time only the highborn had anywhere near the
4. the highborn were subject to those even higher
5. once held a rendezvous with a highborn lady of the region
6. The boys were highborn; they would find it, know what it was
7. In my clan, those that are highborn have a responsibility and a duty to those of the lower castes
8. Those that are highborn have very little time for the rest of us
9. It's," he laughed knowingly, "not unusual for highborn ladies to visit, so she wouldn't've been out of place - though they are rarely there for the men's benefit, if you-"
10. word of a highborn priestess, even one in the womb,
11. It was deeply satisfying to receive the praise of such a highborn peer of the realm
12. “We learned today that even after being presented with literature on the subject for years—carefully educated by a highborn sea-dweller, you still failed to believe or understand
13. The whitewashing of evil rich aristocrats: by calling them ‘nobles’… Cunningly brainwashing the masses into believing that ‘Nobles’ were nobler not only by ancestry: by being highborn
14. At this moment it so happened that a swineherd who was going through the stubbles collecting a drove of pigs (for, without any apology, that is what they are called) gave a blast of his horn to bring them together, and forthwith it seemed to Don Quixote to be what he was expecting, the signal of some dwarf announcing his arrival; and so with prodigious satisfaction he rode up to the inn and to the ladies, who, seeing a man of this sort approaching in full armour and with lance and buckler, were turning in dismay into the inn, when Don Quixote, guessing their fear by their flight, raising his pasteboard visor, disclosed his dry dusty visage, and with courteous bearing and gentle voice addressed them, "Your ladyships need not fly or fear any rudeness, for that it belongs not to the order of knighthood which I profess to offer to anyone, much less to highborn maidens as your appearance proclaims you to be
15. So saying, he advanced and posted himself in the middle of the road along which the friars were coming, and as soon as he thought they had come near enough to hear what he said, he cried aloud, "Devilish and unnatural beings, release instantly the highborn princesses whom you are carrying off by force in this coach, else prepare to meet a speedy death as the just punishment of your evil deeds
16. Who could have thought that Don Fernando, a highborn gentleman, intelligent, bound to me by gratitude for my services, one that could win the object of his love wherever he might set his affections, could have become so obdurate, as they say, as to rob me of my one ewe lamb that was not even yet in my possession? But laying aside these useless and unavailing reflections, let us take up the broken thread of my unhappy story
17. In stumbling to the door, she upset the basket, and--oh horror!--the lobster, in all its vulgar size and brilliancy, was revealed to the highborn eyes of a Tudor
18. “And how would you know what highborn ladies do, ser? Lady Vaith is the only one you ever knew
19. “Even highborn ladies don’t get all they want,” Dunk said, as they rode out across the drawbridge
20. A three-tiered wooden viewing stand had been raised beneath the walls, so Lord Butterwell and his highborn guests would be well shaded on their cushioned seats
21. Highborn ladies learned martial arts to be ready to defend their families and themselves
22. The apprentices and journeyfolk, who had been standing by watching the unusual highborn visitors with fascination, suddenly turned away and got busy again
23. So that on a morning when she awoke in high spirits she would raze the clothes closets, empty the trunks, tear apart the attics, and wage a war of separation against the piles of clothing that had been seen once too often, the hats she had never worn because there had been no occasion to wear them while they were still in fashion, the shoes copied by European artists from those used by empresses for their coronations, and which were scorned here by highborn ladies because they were identical to the ones that black women bought at the market to wear in the house
