Perhaps this was a function of his personality and his natural nobility and pride in his heritage.
There is a certain nobility and dignity on the faces of these soldiers.
It is the sense of nobility and morality enshrined in Greek mythology.
During the Crusades, the nobility and peasantry of Europe abruptly crossed the known world and fought for places they had only ever read about.
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Both lucid and learned, Lattimore writes with a certain grace, capturing the combination of nobility and speed which over 100 years ago Matthew Arnold famously heard in Homer's work.
Stories sympathetic to virtue, preservation of property and admiration of nobility and of wealth can be told beautifully and to wide audiences, and I suspect they will be more and more in the future.
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But compared with their Islamic, Indian, and Chinese counterparts they were latecomers, originally interested in importing luxury Asian goods for the European nobility and bourgeoisie in exchange for wool and woollen products or silver and gold.
At its core, the nobility and the majesty of Memorial Day can be found in the story of ordinary Americans who become extraordinary for the most simple of reasons: They loved their country so deeply, so profoundly, that they were willing to give their lives to keep it safe and free.
He was inspired by the messages left on answering machines, by the courage and nobility of their final words of reassurance and love.
In the cross, he concludes, the beautiful gains "new depth and realism, " showing us both the nobility of man and his fallenness.
Among the dominant themes are the courage and nobility of Southern soldiers in the face of great odds and the indifference or even dislike of slavery felt by many of them.
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When painting royals and nobility, Zoffany only occasionally got beyond the superficiality of his subjects' clothes and settings.
Among the first such adventurers were the two John Tradescants the Elder and his son the Younger, both 17th-century gardeners to royalty and the nobility, who made pioneering expeditions to the Orient and North America.
Silence and immunity became the measure, the flattering reflection of his growing power and nobility.
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Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries this was a favorite destination for politicians, artists and nobility.
Once a country retreat for Inca royalty and nobility, Ollantaytambo is also where the Incas also fought some of their last battles, resisting Spanish conquest from the still intact fortress and staggered terraces rising up around the town.
Born a commoner, she won the affection of King Louis XV in 1745, becoming his chief mistress and gaining nobility.
Along the way he offers lively summaries of some of the key dramas of Russian history, including the exploration of Siberia, the tragic nobility of the Decembrists and the unspeakable siege of Leningrad.
Even at the ripe age of 98, Dr. Height still exuded class, dignity and an air of nobility.
That's when I remember the famous Rupert Brooke poem about the nobility of dying for your country and the "corner of a foreign field that will be forever England".
The store at 173 Bond Street, was visited by royalty, nobility, potentates, tycoons, socialites and connoisseurs from around the world.
No longer would you need to be a first-born male in a wealthy family, in many cases descended from nobility, it order to inherit property and financial security.
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Requested to do so by King John, the turnaround was deeply unpopular, and encouraged stirrings of revolt amongst the nobility.
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Salcedo, born to wealth though not to the nobility, survives a loveless father, a mad wife and a liaison with his former wet nurse to develop into an astute and innovative businessman.
And The New Elite will be more than hopping on their private jets to move from castle to castle to yacht, pushing up the prices of art and trying to emulate the Roman Emperors, the 18th century French nobility or the Russian Tsars.
Wright Penn searches for him, and he turns out to be Kevin Costner, widowed and in retreat withdrawn, surly, but shining with inner nobility.
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