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    nobleness


    1. The great shepherd or herdsman, respected on account of his great wealth, and of the great number of those who depend upon him for subsistence, and revered on account of the nobleness of his birth, and of the immemorial antiquity or his illustrious family, has a natural authority over all the inferior shepherds or herdsmen of his horde or clan


    2. violence of the tyrant, and render void his wicked intentions, and exhibit the nobleness of faith! 3 For you, as a house bravely built


    3. 2 O you mother who together with seven children did destroy the violence of the tyrant and render void his wicked intentions and exhibit the nobleness of faith! 3 For you as a house bravely built on the pillar of your children did bear without swaying the shock of tortures


    4. that Exalted is the Nobleness of our LORD (ALLAH); He has


    5. Well, what is one to do? Never be soft? Never be sad? Or sorry? Or repentant? Always stay up at the level of Milton's _Time_ poem, or of his _At a Solemn Musick_, strung high up to an unchanging pitch of frigid splendour and nobleness? It is what I try to aim at


    6. In all that he says and does he is simply repeating the lesson he has learned from his books; and therefore, it is absurd to speak of him in the gushing strain of the sentimental critics when they dilate upon his nobleness, disinterestedness, dauntless courage, and so forth


    7. In belief of the good reception and honours that Your Excellency bestows on all sort of books, as prince so inclined to favor good arts, chiefly those who by their nobleness do not submit to the service and bribery of the vulgar, I have determined bringing to light The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of la Mancha, in shelter of Your Excellency's glamorous name, to whom, with the obeisance I owe to such grandeur, I pray to receive it agreeably under his protection, so that in this shadow, though deprived of that precious ornament of elegance and erudition that clothe the works composed in the houses of those who know, it dares appear with assurance in the judgment of some who, trespassing the bounds of their own


    8. We have to slay pride in giants, envy by generosity and nobleness of heart, anger by calmness of demeanour and equanimity, gluttony and sloth by the spareness of our diet and the length of our vigils, lust and lewdness by the loyalty we preserve to those whom we have made the mistresses of our thoughts, indolence by traversing the world in all directions seeking opportunities of making ourselves, besides Christians, famous knights


    9. "You've a deal more principle and generosity and nobleness of character than I ever gave you credit for, Amy


    10. And at his side let us place the just man in his nobleness and simplicity, wishing, as Aeschylus says, to be and not to seem good

    11. “Because your honesty and, well, this damn nobleness about you, shamed me


    12. A painter seeking here below for a type of Mary's celestial purity, searching womankind for those proud modest eyes which Raphael divined, for those virgin lines, often due to chances of conception, which the modesty of Christian life alone can bestow or keep unchanged,— such a painter, in love with his ideal, would have found in the face of Eugenie the innate nobleness that is ignorant of itself; he would have seen beneath the calmness of that brow a world of love; he would have felt, in the shape of the eyes, in the fall of the eyelids, the presence of the nameless something that we call divine


    13. Any nobleness begins at once to refine a man's features, any meanness or sensuality to imbrute them


    14. This sight reminded me of falconry and what nobleness and poetry are associated with that sport


    15. After all, his character, I must say, was stamped with both nobleness and strength


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    Synonyms for "nobleness"

    grandeur magnanimousness nobility nobleness

    "nobleness" definitions

    the quality of elevation of mind and exaltation of character or ideals or conduct