noble - use in sentences

Adjective complement with noun phrase

  • make: I would have you curse yourself now, that your bounty ( Which makes men truly noble ) e'er should make me A villain.

Adjective modifier

  • Protestant: James VI is kidnaped by Protestant nobles wishing to separate him from the influence of his Catholic favorites.
  • Scottish: He, along with most Scottish nobles, changed sides on more than one occasion depending upon how the wind blew.
  • Russian: In exile following the Revolution of 1917 Russian nobles continued to give witness to the tradition.
  • great: The source states simply that one of the great nobles had knighted him.
  • other: Like a Scottish Robin Hood, Rob Roy hid in the hills and led raids against Montrose and other nobles.
  • local: Soldiers were made available to assist the Intendants if they needed them and local nobles were put under intense pressure to assist them.

Modifies a noun

  • baroness: The selection favored by the noble Baroness 's party would stop them getting into the school in the first place.
  • savage: There's an air of " noble savage " about this headline.
  • lord: I'm sure it was only modesty which prevented the noble lord himself from mentioning it.
  • Odysseus: If only bright-eyed Athene would choose to love you, as she once cherished noble Odysseus on the Trojan fields where we Achaeans suffered.
  • deed: So he quickly sets out to do a noble deed.
  • truth: The four folds of the cloth symbolize the four noble truths.

Modifying Another Word

  • truly: Just beyond the wall a truly noble prospect presented itself to our eyes.
  • however: Our services and activities offer the clearest possible indication of our refusal to be trapped or imprisoned by our history however noble.
  • so: Oh you heavens, dares any So noble beare a guilty busines!
  • very: All very noble sentiments from comfy seats in leafy Britain.
  • too: It is too noble to be conceived by the intelligences... It is too elevated for thoughts to grasp It.

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