nobleman

• “November 2nd, 2009 Virgin nobleman SIR RICHARD BRANSON has abandoned his efforts to hire a heroic commander of a miraculous Hudson River plane crash for his intergalactic spaceship mission.”

  Archive 2009-11-01

• “The bird carols as sweet a lay for the toil-worn peasant, who labors from morn till night, to gain a scanty subsistence, as for the titled nobleman, who rolls along in his gilded chariot.”

  Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland

• “On the 14th of July, 1909, during the sitting of the British House of Commons, a certain nobleman-a real earl-charged a Labour member with being drunk, and a hub-bub arose and the Labour member resented it, and said he was not drunk.”

  Empire and Democracy

• “There had been much gossip about a certain Italian nobleman who had wooed her openly and madly.”

  The Vision Splendid

• “In that same world, one man, even a nobleman, is of little account.”

  John Halifax, Gentleman

• “He had informed them of the earl of Mar's danger, and the policy as well as justice of rescuing so powerful and patriotic a nobleman from the threatened execution.”

  The Scottish Chiefs

• “At one of the first of the evening parties which they attended, the general topic of conversation was the conduct of a certain French nobleman, the Baron”

  After Dark

• “The person whom you speak of as a nobleman was presented to me as 'Mr. Vincent, an artist.”

  Little Novels

• “When he became a man he mortally offended a certain Polish nobleman by some improprieties in which he became involved with the nobleman's wife.”

  Peter the Great

• “Did you ever hear that, in the last century, or in the century before the last, to put my story far enough back, so that it shall not touch anybody living; when a certain English nobleman, Lord”

  The Absentee

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