Nobilities

The nobilities were the people who were nobles by birth, priests, and those who earned their rank. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Our press does not reverence kings, it does not reverence so called nobilities, it does not reverence established ecclesiastical slaveries, it does not reverence laws which rob a younger son to fatten an elder one, it does not reverence any fraud or sham or infamy, howsoever old or rotten or holy, which sets one citizen above his neighbor by accident of birth: it does not reverence any law or custom, howsoever old or decayed or sacred, which shuts against the best man in the land the best place in the land and the divine right to prove property and go up and occupy it. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)

I don't think according to my dictionary that an individual can be a "nobilities". ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

If therefore they shall stand in neede of any thing, we desire you of all humanitie, and for the nobilities which is in you, to ayde and helpe them with such things as they lacke, receiuing againe of them such things as they shall be able to giue you in recompense. ❋ Unknown (2003)

What am I to say for your kindness in holding a torch of this kind (perfumed for the 'nobilities') between the wind and my poems? ❋ Browning, Elizabeth B (1898)

There are names for both those "nobilities" and neither is pretty. ❋ Rev. Barbara Kaufmann (2011)

Emperor Ling favored "barbarian" music, clothes, curtains, beds, chairs, and dances. 166 And it was during the Han period that Buddhism, a "barbarian" religion, was adopted by the Chinese, first by nobilities and then by the masses. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Melanie don't you feel a bit awkward interfering these nobilities 'proud march into Islamic slavery? ❋ Unknown (2009)

Anything to get her off the op-ed page of the Times, where her imaginary conversations and malicious projections sully the crystal waters of insight and reason, the oasis of measured reflection, into which William Safire, John Tierney, A.M. Rosenthal, William Kristol, Ann Althouse, and other intellectual nobilities have peed. ❋ Wolcott, James, 1952- (2009)

Communists wiped out their nobilities, took their land, and nationalized whatever companies existed. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I do not believe that generations of US patriots fought for the triumph of nobilities and elites. ❋ Unknown (2008)

How many of that group of nobilities are sitzpinklers? ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Rosenthal, William Kristol, Ann Althouse, and other intellectual nobilities have peed. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

Ann Althouse, and other intellectual nobilities have peed. ❋ Ann Althouse (2008)

“Dissertation on Paradise,” informs us that the elect will forever sing and play the guitar: “They will have,” says he, “three nobilities — three advantages, viz.: desire without excitement, caresses without wantonness, and voluptuousness without excess” — “tres nobilitates; illecebra sine titillatione, blanditia sine mollitudine, et voluptas sine exuberantia.” ❋ Unknown (2007)

These two nobilities coalescing after the Revolution, had now transformed themselves into a landed aristocracy. ❋ Unknown (2007)

There were usually tiny nobilities who lived far better indeed, but numerically those nobilities were quite insignificant. ❋ Steven E. Landsburg (2007)

[Caligula] demanded sex from not only slaves, but from family members, senators, and the nobility. The worst cruelties were [inflicted] on the [peasants] by the nobility who ruled over them. ❋ Lorelili (2011)

The [nobility] have no [place] here [in America]! ❋ Real_NoobToob (2020)

The peasants resented the [nobility] for their [frivolity], but at least these farmers had little to lose; the courts of the elite were [swarming] with ruthless intrigue, often with plots of overthrowing the royal family. Noblewomen were married off young, had little real power, and just served to manage households and produce many children (who were raised by [nannies]) to continue the family dynasty, never free to live or choose as they wanted. [Nobility] had/have everything to lose: wealth, reputation, position, allies, public support, political influence, and life. A very public life with numerous people breathing down one's neck and threats on one's person did not help matters, either. ❋ Lorelili (2011)

[Hey]! [Go] [mow my lawn] you nobile! ❋ Joey Fredup (2005)

that [nobile] is [guan] [waste away] eating only 1 noodle a day ❋ Boobmaster3000 (2008)

bro y [aree] u such a nobile [nigga] [i cant] help it ❋ Michael Catanzaro (2009)

You are a being of awsome power, on [a walk in the woods] you encounter two [swords] in a river. Both swords belong to a hated foe. You have four options, keep one sword, both swords, leave them, or return them. As a being of moral integrity, what do you do? As a noble of morals you destroy both, ensuring no [immoral] use may come of them. ❋ Ragnar Snorison (2004)

With the re-ordering of social values resulting from the [epidemic] and the market [crash], he increasingly found himself invited to the best parties, asked to speak in a [spectrum] of venues, and was quietly made aware of his upward nobility. ❋ Monkey's Dad (2020)

[Warrior nobility] is [the path] to eternal life and [glory]. ❋ Tradical (2023)

[Lindsy] [Lohan] is suck a human stain yet she is still carry in Disney movies ....it's as if she was [raped by nobility] or something ❋ Evil Genius Aka Cameron Frew (2019)