Sentence examples for nobility being from inspiring English sources

All this resulted in an increase in literacy, but which was largely concentrated among a male and wealthy elite, with perhaps 60 per cent of the nobility being literate by the end of the period.

All this resulted in an increase in literacy, although it was largely concentrated among a male and wealthy elite, with perhaps 60 per cent of the nobility being literate by the beginning of the sixteenth century.

Nobility is for losers.

For Wills, the nobility is less interesting than the cynicism.

Members of the local nobility were appointed to high offices.

Fendi's nobility is built from its Roman heritage.

The New Nobility is not a work of Kremlinology.

Thousands of the nobility were killed and hundreds of manor houses were burned.

And yet she knew that their nobility was often denied and ignored.

Haakon's law of succession was confirmed, and a hereditary nobility was established.

Most of them returned when the nobility was reorganized under Napoleon, he said.