Sentence examples for noble lines from inspiring English sources

Chatterton rewarded him with bitter but noble lines.

From roughly 1100 to 1500, the emphasis of genealogists was on pedigrees of royal and noble lines.

By the time that Henry VII took the throne in 1485, England's governmental and social structures had been substantially weakened, with whole noble lines extinguished.

Yet he also mentions many amusing characters, dramatic scenes, and noble lines of poetry he would not willingly part with, quoting at length long passages spoken by both Biron and by Rosaline.

Two further challenges to Eardwulf are recorded within the next two years, both apparently from among the noble lines that had been fighting for the throne over the previous decades.

His body is compact but stretched into a noble line.

Yet every arabesque is struck with muscular tension, not exhibited for noble line.

À rebours (1884; Against the Grain), Huysmans's best-known novel, relates the experiments in aesthetic decadence undertaken by the bored survivor of a noble line.

The concepts were of less consequence than my awareness of who the dancers were, their high caliber, their rarity as the last of a noble line.

Yet his noble line in the slow solo at the end of the first act indicated that Siegfried was sensitive and gregarious.

One thinks of the noble line of Edmund Gosse, JR Ackerley or Laurie Lee; or more recent accounts such as Tobias Wolff's This Boy's Life.