Of course, in many cases it happens that the oldest man or woman in the town is a nobleman or a noblewoman; in which case, after the lapse of a certain space of time, further enjoyment of the royal hospitality is politely declined.
Exercise is considered a degenerate habit, fit only for people who have to earn a living; and, as for manual labour, a Corean nobleman would much prefer suicide to anything so disgraceful.
Indeed, the conversation of the whole town is often concentrated on some small act of benevolence done by such and such a prince, nobleman or magistrate.
Self-denial and self-inflicted discomforts are virtues much appreciated in the Land of Cho-sen, and when a nobleman sets a good example in this respect it is invariably thought highly of, and emulated by others.
The appetite, however, remained; the old nobleman saved nothing but his stomach from the wreck of his hopes; though he languidly prepared his pinches of snuff, he ate alarming dinners.
He had received the most violent knock-down blow that ever struck a man; any nobleman would have lost his senses for less.
A touch of rouge carefully applied destroyed the hopes of the Chevalier de Valois; could that noblemanperish in any other way?
The nobleman of the novelette may not be sketched with any very close or conscientious attention to the daily habits of noblemen.
It is, as I have said, immeasurably more contemptible than the snobbishness of the novelette which describes the nobleman as smiling like an Apollo or riding a mad elephant.
Ought he to censure her severely, if, submitting to dissimulation for his sake, she had permitted the young nobleman to entertain hopes which she had no intention to realize?
The success of our Lord's method was proved by the result; which was, that the slender faith of this nobleman became a genuine faith in Christ as the Lord, a faith which his whole household shared.
The nobleman saith unto Him, Sir, come down ere my child die.
Though it was only one in the afternoon when the nobleman was dismissed he did not go back to Capernaum that night--why, we do not know.
He made no bargain with thenobleman that if his son recovered he would let the cause be known.
No commoner has any objection to raise because a nobleman in the bosom of his family finds comfort in his pedigree and in his lands.
Before parliament met, an anonymous pamphlet appeared by some English nobleman on the encroachments of the House of Austria, and on the treatment of other countries which had fallen through marriages into Austrian hands.
Such a time they look for, and such a time they say some nobleman hath promised to provide for them.
The interest of the public in the long confinement of this young nobleman had invested him with all imaginary graces of mind and body.
He concealed his intention till it was betrayed by the departure of one Spanish nobleman after another.
The Veronese nobleman shewed however the spirit of his country, if we let loose the genius of ours.
Such a sentiment, so expressed by a footman, would set a plain man in London a laughing, and make a fanciful Lady imagine he was a nobleman disguised.
I heard a lady there call a runaway nobleman Profugo mighty prettily; and added, that his conduct had put all the town into orgasmo grande.
He found on one occasion that by some curious oversight the Duc de Biron, who had come on an embassy from Henry of France, was at Crosby Hall, with not one nobleman or gentleman to accompany or guide him.
In a play by Field of 1618, a foolish nobleman is asked by some boon companions in a tavern: "Will your lordship take any tobacco?
A negotiation had been carried on between the father and an old nobleman of Bavaria, to unite the dignity of their houses by the marriage of their children.
Not forty minutes ago a Russian nobleman was murdered by the Nihilists.
The situation he had filled with so much honour and advantage, was now occupied by a nobleman who could neither appreciate nor imitate his lofty example.
There is a curious story traditionary in some families connected with the nobleman who is the subject of it, which, I am assured, is true, and further, that it has never yet appeared in print.
The second anecdote relates also to a Scottish nobleman labouring under aberration of mind, and is, I believe, a traditionary one.
This was said to a Scottish nobleman on his giving a great entertainment, and who readily answered, "Ay, and Wise men make proverbs and fools repeat 'em.
The first is of a Scottish nobleman of the last century who had been a soldier the greater part of his life, but was obliged to come home on account of aberration of mind, superinduced by hereditary propensity.
This Marquis of Lothian was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Cumberland at the battle of Culloden, who sullied his character as a soldier and a nobleman by the cruelties which he exercised on the vanquished.
It delights me to hear this hopeful young nobleman talk with sense and firmness about his plans for improving his estate, and employing the poor.
When he was in London, in April 1820, a nobleman called upon him, and asked if he could find him in Edinburgh some clever fellow to undertake the editorship of a paper about to be established.
I trust this young nobleman will be "A hedge about his friends, A hackle to his foes.
Unwilling to disturb the audience, the nobleman delayed for a while the delivery of his royal master's message.
The nobleman promised to the king to comply with his royal order.
The sovereign of Kapilawot, seeing that his nobleman did not return from the country of Magatha,[2] and that no news was heard of him, despatched a second messenger with an equal number of followers on the same errand.
He therefore ordered a nobleman of his court into his presence, and said to him: "Nobleman, take with you a retinue of a thousand followers, and go forthwith to the city of Radzagio.
This nobleman was a just man, and it had been in a great measure through his influence that the judgment of Calas had been reconsidered and reversed.
The name of the Protestant nobleman was not known.
He was encouraged in his wise intentions by the Baron D'Aigalliers, a Protestant nobleman of high standing and great influence, who had emigrated into England at the Revocation, but had since returned.
This nobleman entertained the ardent desire of reconciling the King with his Protestant subjects; and he was encouraged by the French Court to endeavour to bring the rebels of the Cevennes to terms.
The credulous nobleman listened to his story, and repeated it to others of the nobility, who in time diffused it throughout all ranks of society.
Emmeline and Eleanor Manvers were the daughters of Lord Delmont, a nobleman whose title and rank were rather burdensome than otherwise, from the want of sufficient means to keep them up as inclination and position warranted.
It was a curious spectacle--the impotency of this burly noblemanin the hands of his slight adversary.
I sent her a choice bouquet, having the card of a nobleman attached to it, together with a message of respectful admiration.
As I laid down my knife upon the paper which had been wrapped around the bread and cheese, and raised the bottle to my lips, the enamoured nobleman stepped out from the trees and bowed low before Zara el-Khala.
Nothing is sacred to a valet, and from Casimir I counted upon learning the real reason which had led this nobleman to visit Paris at so troublous a time.
He was a man of fortune outside his bishopric; and, as he never went up to London, and had no children on whom to spend his money, he was able to live as a nobleman in the country.
The nobleman who had been elevated out of his seat by the death of his father had been a great Whig magnate, whose family was possessed of immense wealth and of popularity equal to its possessions.
A millionaire, if you please, sir--a rich noblemanin disguise.
I was unwilling to lose time to find him, and by the way I met with this young nobleman whom you see, and to whom I am under a thousand obligations; for, knowing my debtor, he would needs do me the favour of going along with me.
But the nobleman was, as I have said, wonderfully fine-mannered.
He was dressed in the height of the mode, combined with a novel and eccentric fashion, which had been lately set by that extraordinary young nobleman whom everybody talked about--my Lord Byron.
The young nobleman coloured, as if with ingenuous shame at what he had been implying.
