| He was standing in the middle of the room, dressed richly, like a duke or a nobleman. |
| It is another anachronism to think that the author of his plays must have been a nobleman. |
| The story goes that as a boy, he saw a local nobleman set his dog on a peasant woman who was knocked to the ground and battered. |
| His father had inherited the Acton family baronetcy and his mother was the heiress of a German nobleman, the Duke of Dalberg. |
| Both were riding horses, the villager on a fat grey pony and the nobleman on a lean sorrel. |
| He entered with the trained dignity of a nobleman and met the duke's steely gaze. |
