Originally the estate had been, like the whole larger part of the island, the property of a noble family, and had lapsed back into the possession of the crown when that family had become extinct.
I, the enemy of the aristocracy, who hate all nobles, in the bosom of a noble family--half friend and half servant!
I knew that I belonged to a noble family," he began.
By a search in the family archives she had discovered--so she declared to her intimate friends--that she was the descendant of a noble family, and that one of her ancestors had held a most important position at the court of Francis I.
Born of a noble family, he had received an excellent education and had studied diligently.
You are sixteen and a half years old, you belong to a noble family, you have a handsome fortune, and you pass your life beneath the roof of these village folk!
He ain't a bit proud, although he's a valet de chambre in a noble family; we'll empty a few jugs together.
Etienne Pasquier remarks that there was no noble family in England without its French tutor to instruct the children in the French language.
On his arrival in England, he began his career as a teacher of French in the same way as many others; he became a tutor in a noble family, and shortly after produced a book for teaching French.
THIS saint was born of a noble family, of partly Saxon and partly Bavarian extraction, about the year 800.
HE was born of a noble family, allied to the kings of France, about the year 540.
He was descended of a noble family in Berry, and educated in learning and piety.
The Person I mean is Leonardo da Vinci, an Italian Painter, descended from a noble Family in Tuscany, about the beginning of the sixteenth Century.
He had married for his first wife Anne de la Vacquerie, of a noble family, which has merged in that of the Dukes of Saint Simon, and illustrious under the reign of Louis XI.
A certain man, of a noble family, has been lately thrown into prison, whose kind heart and generous nature render him still more worthy of commendation for his virtues, than for the nobility of his descent.
Laurent de Normandie, sprung from a noble family of Picardy, fellow-countryman and friend of Calvin, discharged the functions of master of requests and of lieutenant of the King at Noyon, before retiring to Geneva.
Ambroise Blaurer, of a noble family of Constance, entered in early youth a convent, which he soon left to become a preacher of reform, for which he had contracted a taste from reading the writings of Luther.
In Munich I made the acquaintance of a young lady belonging to a noble family; I eloped with her and brought her to Venice, where we were married.
Her name was Clara Scifi, and she was of noble family.
Amongst those who followed in the train of the king was a young man some twenty-five years old, of noble family, named Fernandez.
She was of noble family, and though she did not leave the world like Clara, yet she served the cause right nobly.
Angelo Tancredi was a young knight, rich, and of noble family.
Berenger von Landenberg, a man of noble family in Thurgau and governor of Unterwald, infamous for his cruelties to the Swiss, and particularly to the venerable Henry of the Halden.
According to the custom by which, when the last male descendant of a noble family died, his sword, helmet, and shield were buried with him.
My being allied to a noble family was no recommendation to those who had acquired their wealth by trade, and were possessed of the most sordid principles.
I shall begin my narrative from the commencement of that union; only premising, that I was the son of the younger branch of a noble family, whose name I bear.
To make a more forcible impression on your mind, your Ladyship must allow me to lay before you a piece of private history, in which a noble family of this town was deeply involved.
I have the honour of some acquaintance with his Excellency's noble family.
The usual greetings having been exchanged, he asked quietly whether Senor Don Carlos had come in search of him, and hoped that he did not owe the honour to any indisposition in his worship's noble family.
Don Rodrigo de Valer," continued the young monk, "was of a noble family, and very wealthy.
She belonged to a good though not a noble family, which for many generations possessed a good estate in Hertfordshire.
It happened that a learned ecclesiastic of noble family lived in this place, and she sought relief in confessions to him.
But it was not a chivalric admiration; she did not belong to a noble family, nor did she defend an institution.
She was given to John of Brienne, of a noble family in Champagne, by the public voice, and the judgment of Philip Augustus, who named him as the most worthy champion of the Holy Land.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "noble family" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
