Such as you are, you will soon find ten wealthy noblemen who will vie for the honour of making up for the absence of salary.From theCambridge English Corpus
This is another dedicatory chanson, one that praises anoblemanwhose heraldic colours are red and gold.From theCambridge English Corpus
At the same time, educational reforms placed greater emphasis on training young noblemen for state bureaucratic service.From theCambridge English Corpus
Spirited young noblemen defied tradition and rejected the formal sartorial trappings of their birth.From theCambridge English Corpus
Archbishops still kept a public dinner table as noblemen once did.From theCambridge English Corpus
He asks for consultation with the other noblemen before speaking, in order to reach mutual agreement.From theCambridge English Corpus
The accounts of noblemen and religious institutions offer some idea of the way these wage labourers were contracted.From theCambridge English Corpus
His solution was therefore a court of honour which would solve all the disputes of honour between noblemen and gentlemen.From theCambridge English Corpus
Something in this young nobleman's noble act - it has since been not without a parallel among our aristocracy - silenced the tongue of gossip itself.From theCambridge English Corpus
Even before the 1789 fire leading noblemen were exploring the possibility of establishing a new and better company in another theatre.From theCambridge English Corpus
From the narrator's perspective, either the notification of a mournful event or a detailed description of the nobleman's death are beside the point.From theCambridge English Corpus
Large landowners - such as sovereign lords, noblemen, monasteries and chapters - were almost entirely absent there : they held less than a fifth of the land.From theCambridge English Corpus
Because of her moral character traits and perspicacity, the girl outsmarts thenoblemanand escapes.From theCambridge English Corpus
At this juncture the king was evincing interest in this particular issue not as the greatest among grand noblemen but as the absolute monarch.From theCambridge English Corpus
By the mid-seventeenth century the patronage of classical music had become central to the notion of what it meant to be a mirza ornobleman.From theCambridge English Corpus
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