"Highborn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "This highborn Captain," said the Vizier, "snatched some women from their beds and pushed them before his men so that the enemy ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, September 2nd, 1914 • Various
... Boys," played also to some extent in the form of "London Bridge," and much resembling "Barley Break," a pastime of highborn lords and ladies in the time of Sir Philip Sydney, who describes it in his Arcadia. The boys first choose sides. The two chosen leaders join both hands, and raising them high enough to let the others pass ...
— Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories - A Book for Bairns and Big Folk • Robert Ford
... at this highborn Englishwoman whose true Christian humility enables her to do the scavengering work usually ...
— Autobiography of a YOGI • Paramhansa Yogananda |
