NOBILITY in a Sentence

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He hardened his heart against the senator who was introducing this set and narrow attitude into the deliberations of the nobility.

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 Meanings and Examples of NOBILITY
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nobility
 n.  quality or state of being noble; superiority of mind or of character; commanding excellence; eminence
Classic Sentence: (41 in 3 pages)
1  I make it to those of you who understand wherein lies nobility of thought.
Dead Souls By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: CHAPTER IV
2  Only the other day when the marshal of the nobility came into the class-room, he made such a face at him as I had never in my life seen before.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT I
3  Yes, the nobility, you monkey-faces.
The Inspector General By Nikolai Gogol
Context  Highlight   In ACT V
4  there's to be an Extraordinary Meeting of the nobility, and they are talking of a levy of ten men per thousand.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XX
5  In the first were the nobility and gentry in their uniforms, in the second bearded merchants in full-skirted coats of blue cloth and wearing medals.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
6  and so on; but as soon as the war was touched on, or what the nobility had been convened for, the talk became undecided and indefinite.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
7  He hardened his heart against the senator who was introducing this set and narrow attitude into the deliberations of the nobility.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
8  In the first place, I tell you we have no right to question the Emperor about that, and secondly, if the Russian nobility had that right, the Emperor could not answer such a question.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXII
9  The secretary was told to write down the resolution of the Moscow nobility and gentry, that they would furnish ten men, fully equipped, out of every thousand serfs, as the Smolensk gentry had done.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXIII
10  From what he did hear he understood that the Emperor spoke of the danger threatening the empire and of the hopes he placed on the Moscow nobility.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXIII
11  From the hall of the nobility the Emperor went to that of the merchants.
War and Peace 3 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 9: CHAPTER XXIII
12  At the same time as the traveler there was announced a provincial marshal of nobility on a visit to Petersburg, with whom Alexey Alexandrovitch had to have some conversation.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 2: Chapter 26
13  He looked more robust, had let his whiskers grow, but was still the same graceful creature, whose face and figure were even more striking from their softness and nobility than their beauty.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 21
14  He despised the nobility, and believed the mass of the nobility to be secretly in favor of serfdom, and only concealing their views from cowardice.
Anna Karenina 1 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 3: Chapter 26
15  The district marshals of nobility were all occupied with the elections, and it was impossible to get the simplest thing done that depended upon the court of wardship.
Anna Karenina 2 By Leo Tolstoy
Context  Highlight   In PART 6: Chapter 26
Example Sentence:
1  He is remembered for the nobility of his character.
2  Her color photographs describe a special kind of aristocrat, one with innate dignity and nobility.
3  In the right hands, there's nobility in unfettered eccentricity.
4  The nobility during the Renaissance led voluptuous lives.
5  Virtue is the only true nobility.
6  As a member of the nobility, his life had been one of wealth and privilege.
7  Being neither jealous nor greedy, being without desires, and remaining the same under all circumstances, this is nobility.
8  I am conscious of how my father carried himself and I see my family in this, my point of reference is a combination of their dignity and nobility.