Sentence examples for too highborn from inspiring English sources

They were too old for college, too old to marry and too highborn to work.

The setup is exciting too: a highborn lady takes Aza as a lady's companion to the wedding of King Oscaro and the porcelain-skinned Ivi; when Oscaro is struck down by an accident during the festivities, Ivi begins to dismantle the king's council and strip the Ayorthaians of their civil rights, and demands that Aza serve her as a lady-in-waiting.

Random, too, is the behavior of these highborn heroes and heroines.

Descended from highborn European parents (a Hollywood publicist's dream), her story also contained an element of tragedy in the privations she and her mother experienced when they were trapped in Nazi-occupied Holland during the Second World War.

Service there became a recognized avenue of promotion to the episcopate for highborn clerics.

Maybe with the Romans, who insisted on teaching Greek to all their highborn citizens.

Where he could imagine scullery maids as highborn princesses, here the aristocratic women are real.

"The pungency," according to Alice B. Toklas, is that of "a highborn radish bred to a lowbrow cucumber".

This explains why the first writers of literary prose in Japanese were highborn women, as were their readers.

Nicole Kidman is Sarah Ashley, a rich, highborn Englishwoman with clipped diction and jackets that fit as tightly as a toreador's.

Mr. Saxton entered Harvard in 1936, but never felt comfortable among his highborn classmates, one of whom was John F. Kennedy.