hochgeboren

The hochgeboren Graf von Winterfeld was also a light sleeper that night, but then he was one of these people who sleep little and play chess problems in their heads to while away the time — and that night he had a particularly difficult problem to solve.

The War in the Air Herbert George 2006

The hochgeboren Graf von Winterfeld was also a light sleeper that night, but then he was one of these people who sleep little and play chess problems in their heads to while away the time -- and that night he had a particularly difficult problem to solve.

The War in the Air 1906

Was she not a _hochgeboren_, a member of an ancient house, of luminous pedigree as far back as one could possibly see?

The Princess Priscilla's Fortnight Elizabeth von Arnim 1903

The Highnessess, the hochwohlgeboren privy councillors, the hochgeboren secretaries, even the untitled Herren who held some petty office, were ushered with profound deference to their seats at the long table, while Clara stood waiting.

Frances Waldeaux 1897

_Durchlaucht_, he was entitled to a seat in the front row, and I preferred prancing about with my _hochgeboren_ high-stepper to having to take a back seat in the third row with a minor _geboren_.

In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters 1886

He says, ` regarding you, as I do, in loco parentis to the hochgeboren Fraulein Dunbar. '"

Frances Waldeaux 1897

It is not, you perceive, dear lady, the same when the head of the House of Wolfburgh allies himself with a hochgeboren Fraulein as when the tailors marry -- -- "

Frances Waldeaux 1897