On that same day, the nobles mentioned above, with others, gathered to sign the document that has become known to history as the Boulogne agreement.
In the often-bewildering opening scene of Richard II, which begins with a list of characters and their achievements, Goold's camera can simply close in on the noble being mentioned, easily establishing characters in a way that, in the theatre, would require much fumbling with a programme in the dark.
It makes me feel noble to mention this — I am feeling noble right now! — as if I'm taking a brave stand against the vulgar superficiality of the age.
Even in the Gorgias, as we have seen, there is a distinction between rhetoric that instills belief, and rhetoric that instills knowledge, and later in the dialogue a form of noble rhetoric is mentioned, though no examples of its practitioners can be found (503a-b).
Byzantine written sources had mentioned nobles eating bears and donkeys, but nobody had known whether the stories were true.
She's been lured into the political wife's cheerleader-in-chief slot and must now accept a period of wailing into microphones about how noble, human, fallible, "snorey" (did she mention noble?) her husband is, disagreeing with him just enough to make it cute.
Virtually every single European language apart from English carries a noble, honest mention of the fineness of the day: "Bonjour", "Buenos dias", "Bom dia", "Buongiorno", "Guten tag".
The anonymous monk who wrote the Annales Herbipolenses chronicle in Würzburg mentioned that for decades afterwards noble families in Germany were ransoming back knights who had been taken prisoner in Anatolia using Armenian middle-men.
Although his funeral was attended by the nobles of Scotland, no major politician or diplomat mentioned his death in their letters that survive.
They are fickle, fiendish beasts that have no right being mentioned in the same breath as the noble knobbed whelk, our state shell.
I agreed on both counts, but mentioned that the commercial shoot has a noble pedigree: Charlie Chaplin's whiskey commercial in "A King in New York".
