highborn
Example Sentences
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A highborn Athenian named Thucydides recognized at once that a transformative conflict was beginning.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025
He signs his poems — and, later, his scabrous articles in the Parisian press — Lucien de Rubempré, using his highborn mother’s maiden name.
From New York Times • Jun. 9, 2022
That a hotheaded, highborn Southerner killed a working man confirmed Northern fears about the intemperate behavior of Southern defenders of slavery, according to Gugliotta.
From Washington Post • Jun. 23, 2018
Unless you, gentle reader, are a highborn scion of the landed aristocracy, the inheritor of wealth and privilege, the proud bearer of a patrician sigil, do you imagine they would care about you?
From Salon • May 1, 2016
“In Westeros, highborn ladies dream of such a necklace.”
From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin
