As we gather from their letters and records, they had begun to realize in themselves the upholders and missionaries of a nobler life.
Add to that personal appeal and that absolute fairness to humanity the constant challenge of the Bible to the nobler elements of humanity.
If you want to know the language of their own times, read these translators' servile, unhistorical dedication to the king, or their far nobler preface to the reader.
But as the girl who proffers the plucked fruits is more and nobler than the natural element with all its details of tree, air, light, &c.
Some unity there always is: but in the life of mere appetite and impulse, even when these impulses are our nobler sentiments of love and hatred, the unity falls very far short.
The savage and the new-born child give us far less occasion to admire the range of their mind than do the nobler animals.
He had wondered whether humanity might not have had a nobler destiny, had fate given supremacy to some heresy rather than the orthodox creed of Christendom.
It is not that passion has ceased; but its nature is so transfigured, that it seems worthy of a nobler name, which yet we cannot give.
The American would say to the Almighty: 'Thou gavest me life, and thou gavest me freedom; freedom, that is the nobler gift of the two.
Their nobler part had projected itself beyond its limitations.
At length his companions recalled him tonobler sentiments, and he received their admonition gratefully.
The Count Orlando felt pity for so much gallantry, and he said, "The nobler you show yourself the more it grieves me to think that in dying without a knowledge of the true faith you will be lost in the other world.
Old forms must modify themselves to suit younger and nobler purposes.
June praised the pigeon and touched it, giving it nobler plumage.
So the fairy's influence went round, and the distinguished company of commoners was linked together in a unionnobler than any of them knew.
Nevertheless, she felt sure now that she was right; it was easier as well as nobler to make the sacrifice than to yield.
And was not the greater the love the nobler the sacrifice?
Meantime the brave and heroic Godfrey--the true hero of the expedition, for he elevated the ordinary virtues of knighthood and feudalism into the nobler feelings of generosity and romance--gained the object of his earthly ambition.
The man of meditative soul, who raises and comforts and sustains his traveling companions, mortal and fugitive like himself, plays a nobler part still, for he unites the other two utilities.
The nobler the badge, the less estimable is the wearer of it.
True knowledge, which springs from fearless investigation, is a far nobler and more reliable conservator of pure vital Christianity.
I owe much to mamma, and something to Erle Palma, who is a nobler man than I have deemed him, less a bronze Macchiavelli, with a heart of quartz; and I shall never again as heretofore rashly defy their advice and wishes.
Of my proud unsullied name I am fastidiously careful, and can even you demand or hope a nobler one than that I now lay at your feet?
Who would not do this for a friend is lost To every nobler principle.
Women who hold the names of wife and mother, Far nobler than the title of a Queen.
Enough will have been said if this one truth is established: there is scarce a fish or fowl, scarce any meat or vegetable, that is not the better and the nobler for the temporary union with the tomato.
There is no desire more natural than that of knowledge; there is no knowledge nobler than that of the "gullet-science.
But, if you would be wholly reckless, why, then try Macaroni a la Pontife, and know that human ambition may scarce pretend to nobler achievements.
Instantly, on the heels of that small pain came a greater andnobler pain: "I can't bear it if he has done anything wrong!
But answer makes the Lord in stern denial: "Leave thou, for nobler verse, to pain and trial Thy heart, the open book the angels read.
How can a cord attract his eyes Who gives away the nobler prize?
There shone with gems that flashed afar The marvel of the Flower-named(811) car, Mid wondrous dwellings still confessed Supreme and nobler than the rest.
Then brightly clad, in warlike guise, With long swords girt upon their thighs, Let soldiers of the nobler sort March to the monarch’s splendid court.
The bow the warrior joys to bend Is lent him for a nobler end, That he may save and succour those Who watch in woods when pressed by foes.
Obedient to the saint’s request Himself he hurried forth, and pressed Each nobler chief and lord and king To hasten to the gathering.
The soul which gentle passions sway Ne’er throws its nobler part away, Nor will the mansion of the base Long be the good man’s dwelling-place.
Out of that deadly suffering of Achilles--out of the paroxysm of grief beside the body of his friend--has grown a nobler form of anger, which will bring salvation to his country at the certain loss of his own life.
Meanwhile the popular polytheism continued to flourish, though enfeebled, degenerate, and disconnected from the nobler impulses of poetry and art.
The Jews, who gave a nobler place in social life to women, ascribed the fall of man to Eve.
There couldn’t be a sweeter, purer, or a nobler woman than she was, though she was a bit proud.
How much nobler it was, contrasted with Redworth's amassing of wealth!
Their mother inspired them carefully with the religion she opposed to the pretensions of a nobler blood, while instilling into them that the blood they drew from her was territorial, far above the vulgar.
She says, 'The vices of the world's nobler half in this day are feminine.
Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!
Thus boyish Will the nobler mastery learned Where inward vision over impulse reigns, Widening its life with separate life discerned, A Like unlike, a Self that self restrains.
Shall then our noblerjaws submit To foam and champ the galling bit?
Even the ardour of his love, for which vanity would have found ready excuse in many a female breast, was to Laura subject of unfeigned regret, as excluding him from the dominion of better motives, and the pursuit of nobler ends.
You glittering toys of earth, adieu, A nobler choice be mine; A real prize attracts my view-- A treasure all divine.
My life, my joy, my hope, I owe To thine amazing love; Ten thousand thousand comforts here, And nobler bliss above.
Till the communion be complete, In noblerscenes above.
Had I the tongues of Greeks and Jews, And nobler speech than angels use, If love be absent, I am found, Like tinkling brass, an empty sound.
Fixed on this blissful center rest; Here have I found a nobler part, Here heavenly pleasures fill my breast.
But Christ, the heavenly Lamb, Bears all our sins away; A sacrifice of nobler name And richer blood than they.
O come, and with his children taste The blessings of his love, While hope attends the sweet repast Of nobler joys above.
Be thou a temple set apart; So shall thy Sovereign enter in, And new and nobler life begin.
Now to the Lord, who makes us know The wonders of his dying love, Be humble honors paid below, And strains of nobler praise above.
Hosanna in the highest strains The church on earth can raise; The highest heavens in which he reigns, Shall give him nobler praise.
Let others boast their ancient line, In long succession great; In the proud list let heroes shine, And monarchs swell the state, Descended from the King of kings, Each saint a noblertitle sings.
Would it be nobler of me to give him up before he is really mine, knowing that in this way I am advancing his worldly interests?
She says marriage is something loftier and noblerthan pleasing one's self; that it ought to mean growth and development both to the man and the woman.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nobler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
