It has been often said that the true poet is a seer; and in the noble verse of an American poetess, we find expressed, what may prove to be the highest fact of science, the noblest truth of philosophy: God of the Granite and the Rose!
And in speculation it is the Tale, the fabula, the procession of impressive incidents and personages, which enthralls him, and with perfect fitness he closes his work with the noblest Invocation to Death that literature possesses.
But in this very strife, this zeal for the True for ever baffled yet for ever renewed, one of the noblest attributes of the present age discovers itself.
A fleet was equipped, and as an atonement for the wrongs done to the elder Northumberland, the King gave the command to his son, whose portrait as Admiral forms one of the noblest of Vandyck's canvases.
It appears in the duller work of the industrious Dion Cassius, and in the fourth century forges some of the noblest verse of Claudian.
Condorcet's biography (1786) of his master is one of the noblest works of its class in French literature.
Nevertheless the Truce of God is one of the noblest efforts of mediaeval Europe.
He must to Rome and afterward to Athens, and have all the chances which were open to the sons of the noblest families of the land.
In Constantinople is the fairest and noblest church in the world, called St. Sophia.
May we not hope that America's coming woman will combine these salient qualities, and with all the powers of mind, soul and heart vivified and developed in a liberal atmosphere, prove herself the noblest creature in the world?
He was endeavoring to soothe her trouble by applying to it some of the noblest religious thought of our day, expressed in the noblest language.
Thus it is that women--the noblest and the dearest--throw themselves away.
In other words, the truest aim we can set before ourselves during our existence on earth is to make it yield the greatest possible results of the noblest experience.
For how "Her fresh benignant look Nature changes at that lorn season when, With tresses drooping o'er her sable stole, She yearly mourns the mortal doom of man, Her noblest work!
The noblest representatives of the people believed this with unparalleled thoroughness and intensity.
There may be in the system of nature around us adaptations, gifts, glories, as much higher than any we enjoy as our noblest powers and privileges are in advance of those of the tiger or the lark.
The noblest and best spirits of all lands and ages have walked in full fellowship with this Being, seeking supremely to serve and love Him in the subjection of self will and in the doing of good.
Time is short; why should you give to it your noblest energies?
Yet "to girls have been denied the very thoughts of love,--even in its noblest and purest form.
Some of the noblest virtues of her sex imply great sensibility.
Whilst, on the other hand, the very noblest of false religions (the noblestas having stolen much from Christianity), viz.
They were married in the greatest and noblest church in the land before the stately altar, with all the Knights of the Round Table dressed in stainless white clothes, gathered about them.
In his "Idylls from the King" are found the loftiest and proudest deeds of English history and even in the retelling of these in prose the high spirit that is an inspiration to the noblest deeds cannot fail to be preserved.
Fair lord," said Elaine, "I don't know your name but I believe it is the noblest himself of them all.
Here lies, to my mind, the unreality of mystical books of devotion and piety, where one is instructed to practise a servile sort of abasement, and to beg forgiveness for all one's noblest efforts and aspirations.
Thomas, one of the grandest heroes and noblest men developed by the war, was able with a single corps to hold the entire army of Bragg at bay until our lines were established in and about Chattanooga.
Chickamauga was a battle where officers and men were all and each alike--heroes of the noblest type.
Rejected and despised of men--" Earth, which hath ever slain her noblest sons, Slays also her Redeemer!
The mysterious ages of antiquity have bequeathed to all succeeding time several of earth's noblest epics, while the contemporaneous prose, if any existed, has long lain buried in the inscrutable archives of the remote past.
All that the noblest nature shows most nobly I owe to thee!
With bitterness, when princely honour goads, And noblest blood proves no defence.
To Elizabeth Pease, one of the noblest of the English Abolitionists, and one of his stanchest transatlantic friends, he defended himself against the false and cruel statements touching his religious beliefs.
The scenes of that evening have been graphically described by the first speaker as follows: "The floor of the hall was densely crowded with women, some of the noblest specimens of our race, a large proportion of whom were Quakers.
And the latter artist produced a piece which justified the judgment of Maratta, representing in the noblest manner the triumphal memory of Morosini, surnamed by the Venetians, Peloponnesiaco, which adorns the forementioned hall.
The Repose of Egypt, in the dome of Palma, and his San Antonio in that of Gemona, are pronounced by the Abbate Boni among his noblest productions.
Was both a wise and winning heart, Whose sweet civilities could move Tartars and Goths to noblest love.
Her noblest work, "Romola" is yet one of George Eliot's most defective in what we may call the scaffolding of the building.
The compilers all agree in extolling her as thenoblest of queens and best of women.
His hair, fine as a woman's, was thin and scanty, but it fell low over the forehead, and concealed that noblest of our human features.
Aside from the success which attended our little vessels in encountering the perils of the polar seas, there are associations which must forever hallow the effort as one of the noblest exhibitions of the true glory of nations.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "noblest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
