nobleness

• “And year by year,' said Harding, 'I watched to see whether the direst want could bring you to humbleness, and saw you only grow in nobleness; and year by year I lay in wait for my four-footed quarry each Midsummer Eve beside the Wishing-Pool, and saw it grow in kingliness.”

  Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

• “I am already considered by the French nobility as Thomas de Longueville; you may personate the Red Reaver: Scotland does not yet know that he was slain; and the reputation of his valor and a certain nobleness in his wild warfare having placed him, in the estimation of our shores, rather in the light of one of their own island sea-kings than in that of his real character – a gallant, though fierce pirate, – the aid of his name would bring no evil odor to our joint appearance.”

  The Scottish Chiefs

• “And year by year," said Harding, "I watched to see whether the direst want could bring you to humbleness, and saw you only grow in nobleness; and year by year I lay in wait for my four-footed quarry each Midsummer Eve beside the Wishing-Pool, and saw it grow in kingliness.”

  Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard

• “How great the sin of seizing on this very time, when special efforts are being made to enlist the world's sympathies in behalf of the millions of our robbed, outraged, crushed countrymen -- how great the sin, of seizing on such a time to attempt to neutralize those efforts, by ascribing to the oppressors of these millions a characteristic "nobleness" -- "enthusiastic attachment to personal right" -- "disinterestedness which has always marked the southern character" -- and a superiority to all others "in making any sacrifice for the public good!”

  The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus

• “A gentleman of blood is defined to descend of three descents of nobleness, that is to saie, of name and of armes both by father and mother" (p. 161).”

  Shakespeare's Family

• “In the third act there is a beautiful love-scene between Edgar and Lucy, the dialogue being especially felicitous in tenderness and grace and fraught with that reverential quality, that condition of commingled ecstasy and nobleness, which is always characteristic of the experience of this passion in pure natures.”

  Shadows of the Stage

• “Ah, the drama, and the 'nobleness' of those characters!”

  Absorbing Art from Newspapers

• “Speculation and conjecture create the contrivance, which is promoted (continuously, mind you) as the controversy, and then wrapped in the "nobleness" of a conspiracy.”

  Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?

• “Therefore, speculation and conjecture create the contrivance, which is promoted (continuously, mind you) as the controversy, and then wrapped in the 'nobleness' of a conspiracy – period. by”

  Swine Flu-- Normal or Malignant?

• “I know all you are going to say," she murmured, with a kind of nobleness which moved him even through his sense of its grotesqueness.”

  The Hermit and the Wild Woman

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