noble.

I want my estates to remain in the Vernon name, and one day you or your children will make my house and my name noble.

Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Charles Major 1884

But when Mr. Gundry, without any words, conveyed this piece of news to me, I immediately felt quite a liking for gaudy but harmless Pennsylvania — for so her parents had named her when she was too young to help it; and I heartily hoped that she might suit Firm, which she seemed all the more likely to do as his conduct could not be called noble.

Erema Richard Doddridge 2004

You are pitted against wrong, not right, and if you succumb, it will be in a cause you yourself would call noble.

The Bronze Hand 1897 Anna Katharine Green 1890

She is a very poor woman, but is one of those who in their bearing and manner, you, Charlotte, would call noble.

How It All Came Round L. T. Meade 1884

Firm, which she seemed all the more likely to do as his conduct could not be called noble.

Erema — My Father's Sin 1862

It was a venerable and very ancient building, containing several apartments of sufficient size and height to be termed noble.

Peveril of the Peak 1822

It was a venerable and very ancient building, containing several apartments of sufficient size and height to be termed noble.

Peveril of the Peak Walter Scott 1801

Nobel Prizes have been controversial lately -- President Obama in 2009 and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in 2010 come to mind -- but there is a relatively new prize that will likely earn positive global reviews this month for its recognition of something unquestionably "noble."

Terry Tamminen: A Noble Prize for the 21st Century Terry Tamminen 2011

Nobel Prizes have been controversial lately -- President Obama in 2009 and Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo in 2010 come to mind -- but there is a relatively new prize that will likely earn positive global reviews this month for its recognition of something unquestionably "noble."

Terry Tamminen: A Noble Prize for the 21st Century Terry Tamminen 2011

When I hear your name mentioned, or think of you, up, at once, flashes that memory picture, and with it, it's connotation, & its connotation is "noble."

Jack London's Literary Mother 2010