Sentence examples for of 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.
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.
Her name may be hijo de algo "the son of noble descent" in Spanish, but Hidalgo grew up on gritty French housing estates surrounded by other émigrés from Armenia, Portugal, Italy, Russia, the Maghreb, living in "rabbit-cage" homes from which they "just wanted to escape".
Eventually Machado took a post in the Ministry of Agriculture, married a Portuguese woman of noble descent and settled into a middle-class life that allowed him to build a parallel career as a translator of Shakespeare, Hugo and other literary lions.
We greeted the decade with sugary, vodka-based "-tinis" — which, despite their suffixed claim to noble descent, were in some ways extensions of the neon drinks of the '80s: alcoholic candy.
Zinzendorf was the son of a Saxon minister of state of Austrian noble descent.
They are recognized to be of the most noble descent of Islam and are respected as Sufi teachers and erudite scholars.
There he's reunited with his love, who he thought to be dead at the hands of his former African king, and is recognized by his white owner to be of royalty and noble descent.
The body lying on the bed was most likely that of a woman of very high-ranking noble descent, possibly royalty, as the quantity and quality of the jewellery found in the grave is indicative of a woman ranking at the top of Anglo-Saxon society.
