Sentence examples similar to noble returns from inspiring English sources

The peasants turned over much of their produce to the nobles in return for military protection.

However, powerful reform-minded nobles Edward Seymour and John Dudley returned to England during the summer from overseas and they were able to turn the tide against the conservatives.

They were ordinary men and women with a noble purpose who returned to civilian life, changed forever.

Andrew III of Hungary (1290 1301) even ordered, in 1293, that all the Romanians who had been settled without royal permission on noble domains be returned to the royal estate of Armeni.

A new surge of violence postponed the back to school campaign with its noble aim of returning children back to school.

Pardoned with the rest of the nobles, La Trémoille eventually returned to court shortly before his death.

One worry of theirs is that a return based on noble sentiments, but scattershot evidence, only opens a museum to a time-consuming flurry of similarly meritless demands.

Nicolas Sarkozy, whatever he says or does, will have difficulty being accepted as a modern-day Cincinnatus, ready to relinquish power to return to the noble serenity of private life after imposing the right reforms in his country.

He was obsessed with a return to a noble Aztec past and lectured his hapless audiences on the need to improve their brains by eating more beans — or so his listeners recall.

He was obsessed with a return to a noble Aztec past and lectured his hapless audiences on the need to improve their brains by eating more beans or so his listeners recall.

Cameron clearly isn't an advocate of the return to the noble savage, but his "big society, small state" rhetoric taps into the same kind of romantic nostalgia for a simpler age where values were not distorted by an overweaning state.