Restoration, nobility became a sort of perquisite to the "roturiers" who served in the Guard. ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
For relations of the second degree on one side, and the fourth on the other; nobles to pay one thousand four hundred and thirty livres; roturiers, one thousand one hundred and fifty livres. ❋ Unknown (2007)
The morality between Spartans and Helots, between planters and negroes, between princes and subjects, between nobles and roturiers, between men and women, has been for the most part the creation of these class interests and feelings: and the sentiments thus generated, react in turn upon the moral feelings of the members of the ascendant class, in their relations among themselves. ❋ Unknown (2002)
But, on the Continent, this was equivalent to saying, that the Commons were _roturiers, bourgeois_ -- in fact, mechanic persons, of obscure families, occupied in the lowest employments of life. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Ah, but roturiers, madame!" said a stiff old duke, with a scorn worthy of ten generations of ribands of St Louis. ❋ Various (N/A)
For my part, I believe that there are so many worthy knights and gallant gentlemen in heaven who know how such things should be arranged, that there is little fear that we shall find ourselves mixed up with base roturiers and swine - herds. ❋ Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 (1902)
For my part, I believe that there are so many worthy knights and gallant gentlemen in heaven who know how such things should be arranged, that there is little fear that we shall find ourselves mixed up with base roturiers and swine-herds. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
Bathurst qui a raconté ceci à l'auteur -- les fils de nobles étaient assis sur un banc à part, loin du contact avec les roturiers. ❋ George William Erskine Russell (1886)
I remember well, when Almack's was first set up, the intention was to keep away the rich roturiers from a place, the tone of which was also intended to be contrary to their own. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
It was the hauteur of foolish duchesses or purse-proud roturiers that she loved, and scrupled not, to abase. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
In one respect at least the brothers closely resembled each other, -- in that exquisite graciousness of manner for which the genuine French noble is traditionally renowned; a graciousness that did not desert them even when they came reluctantly into contact with _roturiers_ or republicans; but the graciousness became _egalite, fraternite_, towards one of their caste and kindred. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
In one respect at least the brothers closely resembled each other, -- in that exquisite graciousness of manner for which the genuine French noble is traditionally renowned; a graciousness that did not desert them even when they came reluctantly into contact with roturiers or republicans; but the graciousness became egalite, fraternite, towards one of their caste and kindred. ❋ Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton (1838)
