In throwing off a foreign tyranny and successfully vindicating national independence the burghers and nobles had not had leisure to lay down any organic law.
Soon afterwards Barneveld was vehemently urged by the nobles and regents of the cities of Holland to accept the post of Advocate of that province.
Great nobles and scions of sovereign houses were his pupils or satellites.
The nobles shrank back, whispering together for a few moments.
I ran my blade straight through the rotten heart of Okar's rotten ruler, and before the white, drawn faces of his nobles Salensus Oll rolled, grinning in horrible death, to the foot of the steps below his marriage throne.
As I entered the brilliantly lighted apartment, filled with the nobles of Kaol and the officers of the visiting jeddak, all eyes were turned upon me.
As one, the nobles and the people lifted their voices in a long cheer of approbation.
I breakfasted with a number of the Kaolian officers, whom I found as courteous and delightful hosts as even the nobles of Helium, who are renowned for their ease of manners and excellence of breeding.
Without another glance toward me, who had stood a spectator of the tragic scene, the nobles wheeled and fled from the apartment through another exit.
Nobles of Okar, unsheathe your swords and do homage to Dejah Thoris, Princess of Helium and future Queen of Okar, for at the end of the allotted ten days she shall become the wife of Salensus Oll.
So when the nobles neither by advice nor by intimidation could prevail upon them to take up arms, they concocted the following scheme.
By this act Marius, who previously had been the darling of the populace alone because sprung from that class and raised to power by it, now won over even the nobles by whom he was hated, and was praised equally by all.
Hannibal had obtained the most important office at Carthage and in his tenure of it had offended the most powerful nobles and incurred their hatred.
As the nobles were irritated at this, he gave instructions that those liberated should perform some services, in requital, for the men that had liberated them.
The nobles intended that the tribunes and the populace should not accomplish easily everything they pleased, but should sometimes be prevented under this plea of augury.
For this achievement the nobles distributed the plunder among them, and voted pay first to the infantry and later also to the cavalry.
Therefore the nobles then for the first time established a new office to have jurisdiction over both classes.
He secretly encouraged Baliol in his enterprise; connived at his assembling forces in the north; and gave countenance to the nobles who were disposed to join in the attempt.
If the king had possessed no arbitrary powers, while all the nobles assumed and exercised them, there must have ensued an absolute anarchy in the state.
His forefathers, like all the nobles of the island, had builded on a grand scale.
The majority of the nobles agreed upon an immediate retreat.
A murmur of choler and stupor ran through the ranks of the nobles who were eager to shed their blood for the monarch.
The nobles were Sez, and had to distinguish themselves by wisdom and learning.
So often did the great nobles of those centuries suffer from the headsman’s axe and with such frequency did they die on the battlefield that it became a matter of pride to declare how rarely they ended peacefully and of old age, in their beds.
The nobles looked at each other, but more with the purpose to see what each thought of the news, than to exchange any remarks on what had happened.
Richard glared round him with an eye that seemed to seek an enemy, and from which the angry nobles shrunk appalled.
The independent nobles of the country extended their protection to the Jews, either for their own interest or out of defiance to the king.
Besides Bulan, the nobles of his kingdom, numbering nearly four thousand, adopted the Jewish religion.
The Visigothic-Spanish nobles took the Jews more and more under their patronage, and against them the royal authority was powerless.
When Tarik appeared before the capital, Toledo, he found it occupied by a small garrison only, the nobles and clergy having found safety in flight.
The noble king Swintila was, however, dethroned by a conspiracy of nobles and the clergy, and a docile tool, Sisenand by name, raised to his place.
The great nobles sought to divide power with the crown: he demolished their fortresses, made them bow their necks to the royal yoke or chopped off their heads.
The nobles had risen and were rallying round Marie; the Protestants were defying the state; but Luynes was impotent, and soon went to a dishonoured grave, leaving chaos behind him.
In 1681 the permission already given to the princes and other nobles to take part in the ballets without derogation was extended to the ladies of the court, who in that year performed the Triomphe de l'Amour.
He retired to a hermitage of thatch and reeds, the famous Paraclete, but even there students flocked to him, and young nobles were glad to live on coarse bread and lie on straw, that they might taste of wisdom, the bread of the angels.
From earliest times of the Monarchy, the kings had dispensed justice, surrounded by the chief Churchmen and nobles of the land, thus constituting an ambulatory tribunal, which was held wherever the sovereign might happen to be.
The Prince of Condé, now a Catholic, the Duke of Mayenne, and a pack of nobles who professed solicitude for the wrongs of the pauvre peuple, fell upon the royal treasury like hounds on their quarry.
Majesty divided the powers of the state with the Huguenots; the great nobles demeaned themselves as if they were not your subjects; the governors of provinces acted as independent sovereigns.
Again the trumpets, clarions and hautboys played the Ave Regina cælorum, and the king, the cardinal of Louvain, and all the nobles presented their tapers to the Virgin.
There was much arson and pillage, but barely thirty of the nobles are known to have perished.
The nobles who at first sat among the lay members gradually ceased to attend owing to a sense of their legal inefficiency, and the Parlement became at length a purely legal body.
Zuanstroom and his son went their own way, for the most part making friends with the nobles and the chief citizens, and seemingly bent only upon the acquisition of useful knowledge concerning the country they were in and its inhabitants.
The nobles held their peace, and their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
Moreover in those days the nobles of Judah sent many letters unto Tobiah, and the letters of Tobiah came unto them.
They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.
Then the king of Babylon slew the sons of Zedekiah in Riblah before his eyes: also the king of Babylon slew all the nobles of Judah.
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
And next unto them the Tekoites repaired; but their nobles put not their necks to the work of their LORD.
Then he made him that remaineth have dominion over thenobles among the people: the LORD made me have dominion over the mighty.
Thy shepherds slumber, O king of Assyria: thy nobles shall dwell in the dust: thy people is scattered upon the mountains, and no man gathereth them.
And their nobles shall be of themselves, and their governor shall proceed from the midst of them; and I will cause him to draw near, and he shall approach unto me: for who is this that engaged his heart to approach unto me?
So she wrote letters in Ahab's name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.
Then I contended with the noblesof Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?
And the men of his city, even the elders and the nobles who were the inhabitants in his city, did as Jezebel had sent unto them, and as it was written in the letters which she had sent unto them.
The king, his father, and all the highest nobles of the court were standing round the bed in the blackness of sorrow, sad in their minds, and ready to receive the last sigh of the fair princess.
Pare was bearer of a letter from the King, thanking Guise and the other princes and nobles for all they had done and were doing to preserve his town of Metz, and assuring them he would remember and reward their services.
Dauphin, the Cardinals of Lorraine and Guise, and several nobles of the court, made a journey to Calais, which he entered with great pomp.
The first nobles of the land had recourse to his protection and support, and strove to propitiate him by presents and flattering letters.
William Wallace was none of the high nobles of Scotland, but the son of a private gentleman, called Wallace of Ellerslie, in Renfrewshire, near Paisley.
They tend to make it almost as much of a fetich as, in the last century, the French and German nobles made the chase of the stag, when they carried hunting and game- preserving to a point which was ruinous to the national life.
Thus Wallace's party grew daily stronger and stronger, and many of the Scottish nobles joined with him.
O our Scots nobles wer richt laith To weet their cork-heild schoone; Bot lang owre a' the play wer playd, Thair hats they swam aboone.
When next the nobles throng at night the royal banquet-hall, Another King will rule the feast, the drinking and the brawl, While Walter Tyrrel walks alone upon the Norman shore, And the Red King in the forest will chase the deer no more.
The courier who carried the news of the recognition to Loo arrived there when William was at table with some of his nobles and some princes of the German Empire who had visited him in his retreat.
This universal mourning had brought the ferocious nobles to a sense of their guilt, and more peaceful times had succeeded, so that an interdict was considered as one of the mightiest weapons in the armory of the Church.
In due time the nobles collected with their troops, and Geoffrey among them.
All the nobles who held with him accompanied him, and Bohun and Bigod were left to act in their own way.
The fame of Wallace's prowess swelled his party, and many knights and nobles began to join him.
Her nobles collected at Wallingford, and sent defiances to Stephen to fight a pitched battle with them; but he knew his own advantage too well, and took no notice.
On returning to Scotland, he assumed the title of Governor, and strove to bring matters into a more regular state, but without success; the great nobleseither feared to offend the English, or would not submit to his authority.
His son Edward was in his 22d year, and had not yet been knighted, and the King convoked all the young nobles to share in the solemnity.
The King issued writs summoning his nobles to meet for his coronation on the 25th of February, but they took the opportunity of insisting that Gaveston should be dismissed from favor.
Her nobles met at St. Malo, and deputed the seneschal of Rennes to inquire of her how they should act, and to assure her of their fidelity.
Still there must have been something striking and attractive about him, for, after his death, even his injured cousin Edward lamented him, and reproached his nobles for not having interceded for him.
They were the nobles with whom Josephine had formerly lived in terms of closest intimacy.
In the time of Guido in Brettinoro even the nobles ploughed the land; but discords arose among them, and innocence of life disappeared, and with it liberality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nobles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
