Here also we find highborn and influential women as abbesses at the head of establishments which were important centres of contemporary culture.
I did not see here, as in other old noble castles the highbornlady sitting among her maidens in the great hall turning the spinning-wheel.
I have watched the highborn men and women of all the various races who have lived there, and now I am going to tell you about Waldemar Daa and his daughters!
This appointment of a woman of low origin to so high a position in the court gave offence to many of the highborn ladies there, and none could understand the reason for it all.
I am highborn and very highborn, although it's not my fault.
His night's rest was refreshing to both mind and body, and, after a good breakfast, he went once more toward the hotel which was frequented by the highborn and the very highborn.
There are a hundred millions of us and all of us are very highborn not excepting our colored people, many of whom are descended from African princes who have a power over their people not approached by either of the kaisers.
No, I'm American, but I'm very highborn nevertheless.
The highborn lady-in-waiting was shocked and objected to their plebeian occupation, but Goethe's mother threatened to turn the door key rather than permit interference with the sport of her princely guests.
This has been roughly translated thus: "Beneath this tomb the highborn Margaret's laid, Who had two husbands and yet died a maid.
The world of highborn womanhood alone attracts her attention.
Before Richardson and Rousseau wrote, the memoirs of highborn dames may be searched in vain for a single expression of sisterly feeling toward women in a lower rank of society than their own.
Frau Goethe found the highborn sisters so simple-minded, so unaffected in their manners, that she was delighted with them.
The monasteries were in most cases resorts for the daughters of the poorer nobility, and for the pious maidens, whether highbornor lowly, when marriage was impossible or other motives urged them to retire from the world.
This highborn Minister had been sent by the Lord Treasurer as ambassador to the needy poet.
But I may beg you to remember, that we are here in a public tavern; and that I, and the highborn Count Jacob of Halland, are present.
I should willingly bear your banner, highborn count, but what a man has promised to our Lord and the Holy Virgin he must abide by.
You mistake me grievously, highborn sir," said Drost Peter, with wounded feelings.
Therefore he brought the highborn maiden to the pass that she gave over her unruly will, which she asserted there afore.
Dietrich now bound Hagen and led him to where he found the highborn queen; into her hand he gave the bravest warrior that ever bare a sword.
No love is possible between man and wife," repeat the Courts of Love which, consisting of all the highborn ladies of the province and presided by some mighty queen or princess, represent the social opinions of the day.
It is, this earliest Italian poetry, like the more refined poetry of troubadours and minnesingers, eminently an importuning of highborn but loosely living women.
Yet the indignity must have been cruelly galling to the highborn and gallant men who were thus mercilessly paraded to their doom amid the cries of the populace.
The young Irishman was not a little touched and elated by the highborn damsel's partiality for him.
It may be that his rough soldier-manners consorted ill with his imperious highborn bride.
He assured her that the fancy sprang from scenes which she remembered, and that she could have no idea of the pride of a highborn Austrian girl, who was incapable of conceiving jealousy of a person below her class.
But his age, his rank, his former renown in war and state, did not suffice to draw to his grey locks and highborn mien a single one of the shouts that attended the meanest lord on whom the great Tribune smiled.
Tribune, but of the highborn and haughty tyrants who had first derided his arrogance, and now cringed to his power.
Highborn and great as your magnates deem themselves, I would not, while the mountains can yield one free spot for my footstep, change my place in the world's many grades for theirs.
The young Colonna was much struck by her beauty, and more by her gentle and highborn grace.
Baroncelli was a weak man, his sons committed every excess in mimicry of the highborn tyrants of Padua and Milan.
It was no longer the almost woman delicacy of feature and complexion, or the highborn polish, and graceful suavity of manner, which distinguished Walter de Montreal: a life of vicissitude and war had at length done its work.
Sulpice and his soldiers burst out into loud shouts of approbation, and thehighborn guests retire silently and disgusted.
Minka, though despairing of ever belonging to one so highborn has found means to liberate him, and is now ready to suffer for her interference.
A gentleman from America had come to consult him about his health; and I am sure that at that moment the "Most Highborn Mrs. Dr.
As I was about to go, I heard a peasant girl in the hall say: "I kiss your hand, Most Highborn Mrs. Dr.
Highest in rank among these highborn warriors was a lad of sixteen, Philip Duke of Chartres, son of the Duke of Orleans, and nephew of the King of France.
It was not for very many years that Lafayette was to profit by his highborn mother's devoted care and foresight.
Most Noble Highborn Prince, Most Highborn Prince, my last letter to Your Princely Excellency was dated May the 20th last from the Taefelbay near Cabo de bonne esperance with the ship Anna from England.
I heard a hound, highborn sister, Stood baying at the moon; I rose and drove him from your wall Lest you should wake too soon.
When she entered the field she was conducted by her juvenile escort to the throne, on which she seated herself, and with a playfully assumed queenly dignity that became her highborn air.
Now it remains for me, ere he can learn the secret of his birth, to send him where low and highborn are all on a level!
He carried himself at all times with a gallant but proud air; and his demeanour was like that of the highborn youths of his time, taught to regard all of low degree as created for their use and pleasure.
What had he to do with the love of highborn maidens?
His mind was struggling between filial affection and ambition--between love for the highborn maiden and duty to his grandsire.
Like many among the highborn and educated of that day, Lester was not above the superstitious notions of the times, and assented to, perhaps without firmly believing, the existence and power of sorceresses.
Can the highborn heiress of Earl Fitzgerald be served by one so humble?
In plain words, the poor fisher's lad fell deeply in love with the highborn heiress of Castle Cor.
It is only for the lowborn virgin to be taught it by somehighborn youth.
When he had been about two years away, he wrote to announce his intended marriage with a highborn young lady in Sweden, and to ask for his father's consent.
I fancy more than one of these highborn ladies, must have gone green and yellow with envy and jealousy.
Counts, and princes, and princely prelates; even a few highborn dames had been pleased to immortalize their luck.
A Princess of India might inaugurate it, but others as fair and highborn were to come after her, recipients of the same worship.
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