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Definition of Nobles
1. noble [n] - See also: noble
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nobles
Literary usage of Nobles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon, Henry Hart Milman, William Smith (1862)
"THE nobles OF ROME. feudal tyranny, alike oppressive to the sovereign and the people
... The sword of the nobles was broken ; their slaves were enfranchised ..."
2. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Adolphus William Ward, Ernest Alfred Benians, George Walter Prothero, Stanley Mordaunt Leathes (1907)
"nobles. —Heretics. abstraction, the State—that monster of which Bonaparte was soon
... In both questions, that of the privileges of nobles and that of the ..."
3. Ancient Times, a History of the Early World: An Introduction to the Study of by James Henry Breasted (1916)
"THE DISAPPEARANCE OF THE KINGS AND THE LEADERSHIP OF THE nobles We have seen ...
This Greek vase-painting shows us the Greek nobles in the days when they ..."
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