Sentence examples for noble descent from inspiring English sources

Logau was of noble descent and became an orphan early.

Apparently the son of an innkeeper of noble descent, Grimmelshausen was orphaned at an early age.

Zinzendorf was the son of a Saxon minister of state of Austrian noble descent.

Vespasian did eventually decide to accept Galba, whose noble descent, given the standards of the day, would have been daunting to a man of Vespasian's position in society.

Even if a king (theoretically of Kshatriya descent) was not of noble descent, he was still clothed with divine authority as an upholder of dharma.

For example, the Cheka — the grandfather of Russia's security service, the F.S.B — preventively arrested those of noble descent or with relatives abroad.

"I heard of the division of property, of immense wealth and squalid poverty; of rank, descent, and noble blood".

Al-Kindī was born of noble Arabic descent and flourished in Iraq under the caliphs al-Maʾmūn (813 833) and al-Muʿtaṣim (833 842).

The young McNicoll was of noble Norwegian descent through his mother.

Of noble Burgundian descent, he was a student at the Brienne military school, then was a graduate of the Paris military school.

(Titles could be purchased, but the buyer first had to prove noble ancestry and a "purity of blood" — a phrase that effectively meant people of Jewish or Moorish descent need not apply).