Here also was rendered to the representative of the French king, with all its ancient forms, the fealty and homage of the noblesse and military retainers, who held possessions in the province under the crown.
III Sir Tomas from his noblesse halle Did trend his path a somer's daye, And to ye hoyden he did call And these ffull evill words did say: "O wolde you weare a silken gown And binde your haire with ribands gay?
In soche a time yenoblesse liege that ben Kyng Arthure hight Let cry a joust and tournament for evereche errant knyght, And, lo!
Joyous-garde and eche adjacent spot A company of noblesselords fared unto Camelot, Wherein were mighty feastings and passing merrie cheere, And eke a deale of dismal dole, as you shall quickly heare.
And I think noblesse oblige ought to teach us another lesson in this matter of work.
The noblesse lost whatever political influence it had regained during the Restoration.
Under such a Constitution there was little room for the old noblesse to arrogate to itself any legal superiority over the mass of the French nation.
Even without these grievances the hostility of the mass of the Polish noblesse to Russia would probably have led sooner or later to insurrection.
The Napoleonic nobility was placed on an equality with the old noblesseof France, though neither enjoyed, as nobles, anything more than a titular distinction.
Of all the institutions of France the most thoroughly national and the most thoroughly democratic was the army; it was accordingly against the army that the noblessedirected its first efforts.
Before the Revolution the noblesse had possessed privileges; it had not possessed political power.
I suppose, though, there must be something of the fishwife in every woman--something that comes boiling up to the surface once in a while, and makesnoblesse oblige hard to remember.
All the military noblesse of the kingdom, with the exception of the partisans of the constitution, had quitted their garrisons or their Châteaus to join this crusade of kings against the French revolution.
Elected deputy of thenoblesse of Paris at Crespy and at Villars-Cotterêts, he selected Crespy, because the electors of this bailiwick were the more patriotic.
He dedicated them to Sir Philip Sidney as "the president of noblesse and of chivalrie.
Their first step should be to get themselves divided into two chambers instead of seven; the Noblesse and the Commons separately.
The Noblesse, and especially the Noblesse of Auvergne, will always prefer men who will do their dirty work for them.
The third, as the Noblesse is too numerous to be all of the Assemblée, to obtain permission for that body to choose its own deputies.
All that I have now told you can be summed up in two words, two old-fashioned words, "Noblesse oblige.
If the motto Noblesse oblige sums up the advice I gave you just now, my further advice on your relations to women is based upon that other motto of chivalry, "Serve all, love one!
It had found, at last, recognition more or less explicit in the noblesse and the "tiers état.
The course of politic humanity to which they pointed might have saved a monarch his head, the noblesse countless lives and the loss of large possessions, and France a bloody revolution.
The latter had that strong sense of family attachment which is so marked a characteristic of Scotsmen; and noblesse oblige was a maxim which for him had a very real and serious meaning.
Yet he saw in it no inconsistencies and, as men go (and as I have known them), the code had certain qualities of noblesse oblige.
But unfortunately, with a few exceptions, they rest contented with playing the Lady Bountiful and their only appreciation of the spirit of Noblesse Oblige has been the old, aristocratic idea of charity.
American women of leisure must awaken to an appreciation of the democratic idea of Noblesse Oblige.
And he hathe born before him also a vesselle of silver, fulle of noble jewelles of gold fulle riche, and of precious stones, in tokene of his lordschipe and of his noblesse and of his myght.
And he hathe born before him also a plater of gold fulle of erthe, in tokene that his noblesse and his myghte and his flessche schalle turnen to erthe.
For the noblesseof that contree is to have longe nayles, and to make hem growen alle weys to ben as longe as men may.
I tell you this fearing you may be wounded and you may fall in the hands of a cap and apron, and from a feeling of noblesse oblige you may not grasp the happiness within your reach.
Bits of gossip were recounted that had never come to light before, the noblesse oblige of the college spirit having kept matters dark, but now that the years had rolled by there seemed to be no longer reason for silence.
That can noman pleinli devise; Bot as the clerkes ous enforme, That lich to god it hath a forme, Thurgh which figure and which liknesse The Soule hath many an hyh noblesse Appropred to his oghne kinde.
Of the new words found in the Complaint of Womanly Noblesse (see vol.
The Balade to Rosemounde and Womanly Noblesse are certainly genuine; and there is a high probability that An Amorous Complaint is the same.
Why, if I had not recollected that noblesse oblige, I should not have been all alone now.
Yes, young gentleman: and if people are not gentlemen and ladies, and forget that noblesse oblige, they will find it as easy to get on in the world as other people who don't care what they do.
The small remnant of the noblesse that had any inclination to return to a world which had lost its charm for them found there a trace of the old politeness.
It was this spirit that lent a new and softer coloring to the intimate social life that blended in some degree the tastes and manners of the old noblesse with a refined and tempered form of modern thought.
Among the numerous salons of the noblesse there was one which calls for more than a passing word, both on account of its world-wide fame and the exceptional brilliancy of its hostess.
Their first step should be, to get themselves divided into two chambers instead of seven; the Noblesse and the Commons separately.
Full to overflowing with the realization of their "noblesse collective," they have an utter contempt for an individual nobility that borders close upon radicalism and republicanism.
In the Comte de Foix one finds a link which binds the noblesse of the south with that of the north.
The honour, power and profit derived by the noblesse in France all stopped with the Revolution.
The following, extracted from the book of accounts of one of the minor noblesse of Bearn in the sixteenth century, is intimate and interesting.
Nothing remains but the title, and the Grammonts, who figure in the noblesse of France to-day, are still by right Princes de Bidache, the eldest of the family being also Duc de Guiche.
Sometimes, too, inheritance was through the mother, not the father; this was known as the noblesse du ventre.
Its Parlement was composed of three orders, the clergy, the noblesseand the tiers.
All of these distinctions were hereditary, save, in some instances, the noblesse ordinaire.
Originally the nobility in France was of four degrees: the noblesse of the blood royal, the haute-noblesse, the noblesse ordinaire and the noblesse who were made noble by patent of the ruling prince.
The Revolutionary Assembly abolished such things in France, but Napoleon restored them all again, and created a new noblesse as well: "Aussitot maint esprit fecond en reveries, Inventa le blason avec les armoiries.
And the French noblesse of to-day, the proud old French aristocracy, is not, on the whole, as bad as it has frequently been painted.
Noblesse oblige," said the Marquis, putting his hand upon his bosom.
The Marquis had been walking about the room impatiently, while his didactic son was struggling to explain his own theory as to those words noblesse oblige.
The quhilk drede of schame suld haue in it fyve wittis to kepe, that throu nane of thai suld dishonour cum, and that the noblesse of his curage suld defend thai fyve wittis, that neuer throu thame euill na wikkitnesse cum.
But intelligence now came that the palace was roused at last, that troops were ordered from the country for its defence, and that the noblesse remaining in the capital were crowding to the Tuileries.
At this period many of the sons of the noblesse were sent to France to enter the army or navy as cadets.
The noblesse of Canada is in a condition of extreme poverty.
Among their noblesse were the gallant sons of Le Moyne, who distinguished themselves, although Jacques Le Moyne de Ste.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "noblesse" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: aristocracy; chivalry; elect; elite; nobility; peerage; royalty
