baseborn

Example Sentences

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Some young squire or hedge knight, like as not . . . though by the vehemence with which Lord Hoster had opposed him, he might have been a tradesman's son qr baseborn apprentice, even a singer.

From Literature

Jacob the supplanter, Jacob the changeling, Jacob the baseborn!

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For they honor money; and the noble weds the baseborn, and the base the highborn; wealth has mixed the race.

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If it were so, the Countess would be no Countess, Anna Lovel would simply be Anna Murray, penniless, baseborn, and a fit wife for the tailor, should the tailor think fit to take her.

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One might be a noble and still not belong to the knightly order, and, on the other hand, one baseborn might be raised to knighthood on account of some valorous deed.

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