It is not for Kings to drink wine, nor for Princes strong drink. It becomes not them who are highborn to be intemperate.

His acquaintance with this high-born dame gave wit no opportunity of boasting its influence; she was not to be subdued by the powers of verse, but rejected his addresses, it is said, with disdain.

Was he not Rajah Hassim and was not the other a man of strong heart, of strong arm, of proud courage, a man great enough to protect highborn princes?

He is a career rather than a conviction politician, but too highborn to be written off as a mere scaler of the greasy pole. He is a scion of the class that, deep down, believes it was born to rule.

The selfish, base, covetous, father-in-law was not at all desirous to have a highborn beggar and the posterity of a highborn beggar to maintain.

The references to the lady's long-standing affection for her loyal, high-born servant girl provide a succinct intimation that the lady herself is not a wholly repellent character.

Mrs Monteith was able to tell her son about their high-born slave ancestor because he had left a memoir.

In this illustrious throng, your lofty flood
Swells high, fair confluence of all highborn Blood.

I should have then
Been trained in no highborn necessities
Which I could meet not by my daily toil.

Dowling says that most performances of Chekhov plays have been filtered through translations into a British highborn sensibility.

If anyone in the highborn sport known as thoroughbred horse racing has swagger these days, it is Baffert.

The tires are highborn Pirelli P Zeroes in appropriately majestic sizes.

Gearhart is worth taking a bit of time to ogle the highborn homes along the backroads near the beach.

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