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  • noun Plural form of noble.

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Examples

  • For me, when I read now of England, it seems as if all the hereditary legislators -- it is what you call your nobles, eh?

    Three Weeks Elinor Glyn 1903

  • He created a veritable boatload of programmable robot musicians effectively a floating jukebox designed to entertain nobles as they drank and lounged at royal pool parties.

    Archive 2007-07-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • He created a veritable boatload of programmable robot musicians effectively a floating jukebox designed to entertain nobles as they drank and lounged at royal pool parties.

    Automata in the Ancient World Heather McDougal 2007

  • But when many years had come and gone, and when Scyld Scefing felt that death drew near, he called his nobles to him and told them in what manner he fain would pass.

    A Book of Myths Jeanie Lang

  • Rejoiced, he called his nobles together, divided his treasure among them, and appointed his successor, Lohurasp, whom he commanded to be the woof and warp of justice.

    National Epics Kate Milner Rabb 1901

  • Government demanded that compensation should be made to certain German nobles whose feudal rights over their peasantry had been abolished in

    A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878 Charles Alan Fyffe 1868

  • All their princes shall be nothing, saith the prophet, and when they call their nobles to the kingdom, none shall be there.

    Works of John Bunyan — Volume 03 John Bunyan 1658

  • You build castles (think companies as in Acquire), grow those castles, add little units called nobles into the castles, and merge the castles.

    Boardgame News 2010

  • Portuguese, flourished in nobles and palaces, in agriculture and manufactures, under the more prosperous reign of the Arabs,

    The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

  • I thought about the friends he had mourned to leave, the trombone-player, the great forest full of game -- belonging, as Antonia said, to the 'nobles' -- from which she and her mother used to steal wood on moonlight nights.

    My Antonia Willa Sibert Cather 1910

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