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After a break of sixty years in the ducal line of the English nobility,
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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Arthur's-court splendor of first, second, and third tables of nobility,
The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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During the rendition of this hallelujah-solo in praise of the nobility,
Gänsemännchen. English Jakob Wassermann 1903
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It costs no one anything to spend an hour a day in meditation on some aspect of life; in thinking of our eternal nature and striving to place ourselves en rapport with our highest ideals of purity, nobility,
AE in the Irish Theosophist George William Russell 1901
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In 1787, Calonne, who was at the head of the finances, persuaded Louis XVI. to convoke the assembly of Notables (i.e. men of the upper classes selected by government), in hopes to obtain their sanction to the extension of the taxes to the nobility,
A Parallel History of France and England; Consisting of Outlines and Dates 1871
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There were many of the clergy, and many of the nobility,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Let us pray for the honourable council and nobility,
A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 William Carew Hazlitt 1873
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Tall, slight, elegant, with no sign of a paunch, with a small mustache of doubtful shade, which might be called fair, he had a walk, a nobility,
Une Vie, a Piece of String and Other Stories Guy de Maupassant 1871
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Tall, slight, elegant, with no sign of a paunch, with a small mustache of doubtful shade, which might be called fair, he had a walk, a nobility,
Original Short Stories — Volume 08 Guy de Maupassant 1871
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Emperor placed on Moscow and especially on its illustrious nobility,
War and Peace Leo Tolstoy 1869
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