Sentence examples similar to former nobility from inspiring English sources

A new elite class arose in the late Chunqiu, composed of the former shi class and the descendants of the old nobility.

They constituted an early nobility of birth.

The new nobility, however, was fundamentally different from the old nobility.

The former consisted of the nobility and the priesthood, and the latter comprised the rank and file of the army, the peasantry, and artisans.

Stanislaw Krynski, the 30-year-old director of the local museum, has assembled a dozen or so Jewish tombstones neatly and prominently on the lawn alongside his museum, a former palace of the nobility.

Most concerts will be held in the Hall of Columns, the former ballroom of the prerevolutionary nobility club near the Kremlin.

It published studio photographs of actresses as well as aristocrats, including many in the former group who married into the nobility.

The case pits two former colleagues and rivals – each minor Arab nobility – against each other.

In 1871 the domains were abolished, and the former daimyo were converted into a pensioned nobility residing in Tokyo.

Both commoners and serfs constituted the audiences, the former sometimes doing serpent dances with the nobility, the latter sometimes ceremonially attacked and routed by the priests.

An association of nobles was formed as the National Heraldic Council of the Italian nobility, under the authority of former king Umberto II, and this association tries to regulate the use of arms and titles.