From Tudor times onward the once waste land in the immediate vicinity of castles and palaces was cultivated, and the gardens of the nobility along the Strand in London were full of beautiful stonework and statuettes.
Kings, princes, and the nobility received gold and jewelled snuff boxes on occasions when in more modern days they would have been given a scroll of vellum in a golden casket.
With the court followers and the nobility of the last days of the monarchy it was the same thing; the Tuileries was but a temporary shelter.
The suggestive comparison is made because of the close liens with which royalty and the higher nobility were bound.
And it was through Ibrahim that Hamza had entered the service of my Lord Arminigel; it was Ibrahim's unexampled generosity and nobility that had brought Hamza to the chance of this treachery.
His bungling search after nobility of spirit had roused the devil within her.
In one such book, for example, I come upon this: "What all the skill and constructive capacity of the physicians in the Crimean War failed to accomplish Florence Nightingale accomplished by her beautiful femininity and nobility of soul.
The Crowning Victory It is my sincere hope that nothing I have here exhibited will be mistaken by the nobility and gentry for moral indignation.
You set great store by the impoverished gentry and nobility who have you to stay with them when the worst comes to the worst, and secure a respite in exchange for introductions to their pals.
In private life, as well as in public performance, her personality remained one of earnest simplicity and nobility of thought.
Her house in Baden-Baden was the centre of attraction for a circle including not only musicians, but artists, poets, and nobility of the highest rank.
With her, nobility of thought and sentiment take first place.
The clergy were recruited from nobility and bourgeoisie--rarely from the villein class.
The English version of the last title, damsel, was used of the young nobility of both sexes.
She remarked, one day, that there was no crying need for the Russian nobility to follow her husband's teachings and give away all their goods in order to be on a level with the peasants.
Meilhan at once divined everything, that is to say, that I was her equal in rank, education and nobilityof soul; she knew it, she felt it.
All these turpitudes would be unimportant if our poor nobility were still triumphantly occupying their rightful position; but while they are struggling to recover their prestige what can be done with such representatives?
And he told me, not far: for ’twas only matter of decorum, to send the nobility to hell a-horseback.
Most people believed that the offices of power and influence in the realm belonged to the nobility and gentry as indubitably as the throne belonged to the king.
The fashion started in the nobility and the richest mercantile families that their wives should become ladies of leisure.
It served the profession of law, and was a training ground for the sons of nobility and the gentry and for those entering the service of the commonwealth.
They were the nobility and held the high political offices, the high ranks in the army and navy, and owned large estates, usually scattered over the country.
The nobilityand gentry became more mobile and now mixed together at parties.
Temptation is not in and of itself a blot, it may be even an emblem of nobility so long as one does not yield to it.
It is precisely the incertitude and the remoteness of their aim that constitute the nobility of certain enterprises; if one wants something very big, one must be resigned to want something a little vague.
The example of all nations proves that when the nobility thus indulge themselves, and become the devotees of passion and luxury, they do not need to wait long for imitators among the lower and poorer classes.
There were other members of the English nobility who used their influence for the introduction of French infidelity, literature, morals, and fashions.
On either side of the pavilion were others, each of a different style of architecture, for the use of the chief nobility of the realm.
Another mode Nicholas took of ruining the old nobility was to establish a pawn bank, where they could at all times pledge then property.
In the process of time Taddeo acquired so much money that, by steadily saving, he founded the wealth and nobility of his family, being always considered a wise and courteous man.
But although the nobility of this art was so highly valued, it is uncertain to whom it owes its origin.
There she stopped until the Spanish retinue, as well as all the nobility of England, could make the necessary preparations for her grand entry to London.
All the parliament and royal council assembled at the union of the young king and his bride, as well as a hundred of the principal nobility of Scotland, who came to conclude a final peace with England.
Queen Marguerite is the ancestress of all the English nobility bearing the name of Howard, who unite in their veins the blood of St. Louis with the greatest of the Plantagenet kings.
A guard of nobilityand gentry escorted her in state to London, and she went in company with her mother to live at Westminster Palace.
After them came the abbots, then the nobility and the bishops.
A sort of recoronation then took place at St. Stephen's Chapel, when the nobility renewed their oaths to the young sovereign, who thenceforth governed the kingdom himself.
On the Monday following the battle of Hastings, William rode into the city of London, on horseback, followed by a long train of the nobility of England and Normandy.
Four kings and four queens were present, besides a larger number of princes and nobility than had ever met together on such an occasion, and the church presented an appearance of unusual magnificence.
On the labor of these deformed mothers, of these bent and wrinkled girls, of little boys with the faces of old age, the heartlessnobility live in splendor and extravagant idleness.
The great dramatist is, of necessity, a believer in virtue, in honesty, in courage and in thenobility of human nature.
Every one should be taught the nobility of labor, the heroism and splendor of honest effort.
The presence of so noble a man allures to light whatever nobility lies in us.
Prepared to have to combat the stubborn romanticism of her daughter--whose obstinate nobility of character she always feared,--she had suddenly heard this same daughter consent to all that her mother had required of her.
I came to you founding my hopes upon the generosity and nobility of your heart, Alexey Ivanovitch--upon those special tender feelings which may, perhaps, have been aroused in you by late events.
The sole order of nobility which, in my judgment, becomes a philosopher, is the rank which he holds in the estimation of his fellow-workers, who are the only competent judges in such matters.
The only figure which stands out with anything like nobility or dignity, on the French side, is that of the Empress, and she is only a second-rate Marie-Antoinette.
This most generous act of Mr. Coe reveals the large and unselfish character of the man and declares the nobility of his motive to promote the cause of high christian education in the west.
