noble
/ˈnoʊbəl/ noun B2- An aristocrat; one of aristocratic blood. · This country house was occupied by nobles in the 16th century.
- A medieval gold coin of England in the 14th and 15th centuries, usually valued at 6s 8d.
Plural nobles
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“No one can deny his being a noble-hearted young fellow.”
de Villefort may prove the moral and political physician of this province; if so, he will have achieved a noble work.”
“Ah,” said the Marquise de Saint-Méran, a woman with a stern, forbidding eye, though still noble and distinguished in appearance, despite her fifty years—“ah, these revolutionists, who have driven us from those very possessions they afterwards purchased for a mere trifle during the Reign of Terror, would be compelled to own, were they here, that all true devotion was on our side, since we were content to follow the fortunes of a falling monarch, while they, on the contrary, made their fortune by worshipping the rising sun; yes, yes, they could not help admitting that the king, for whom we sacrificed rank, wealth, and station was truly our ‘Louis the well-beloved,’ while their wretched usurper has been, and ever will be, to them their evil genius, their ‘Napoleon the accursed.’ Am I not right, Villefort?”
“You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins.
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