| Though high-born, he was propelled more by his conviction that he was a man of destiny than any class or tribal loyalty. |
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| Helena, played by Janet Moran, is a lowly physician's daughter who has her eye on her high-born master, Bertram, Count of Roussillon. |
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| The thought of a high-born babe with the hots for him convinces Fred that it's time to explore the charms of the English countryside. |
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| Barrett's wife Wakaiwa, or Rawinia as she was known, was a tall, handsome, high-born woman who towered over her husband. |
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| Will the high-born ever cease to believe that they weren't simply born better? |
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| He portrayed saints and sinners and the high-born and the lowly with equal expertise. |
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| The fake-English accent is impeccable, the gracious, high-born manners firmly in place. |
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| In fact, they used them both as a currency and for a drink which they called xocolatl and which they restricted to high-born males. |
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| French subjects, high-born or low-born, were hanging on to their safety by a thread. |
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| I don't know whether Satish had read the Bhagavad Gita, but he was a Hindu, a high-born Brahmin at that. |
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| Traditionally, a colonel in the British Army would likely be from a high-born, well-known family with documented heraldry and pedigree. |
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| I am not some high-born aristocrat that cannot get her own food. |
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| Sensing a threat both to their property and their prerogative, the high-born gentlemen put an end to the little experiment in selfless utopianism. |
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| Hand washing was also part of social protocol and table etiquette among the high-born. |
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| But as royalty goes, his place in Xhosa tribal society was barely of the high-born. |
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| Alas, Paquita rejects Lucien's proposal of marriage because she thinks that she is not high-born. |
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| He respects me, though I am neither beautiful nor a high-born noblewoman. |
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| After all these years he still marveled that he, Gaetano Nicola Russo, was deemed equal under law with anyone in the country, no matter how wealthy or high-born. |
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| Both writers are obsessively interested in wealth and high-born privilege. |
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| Over time, however, the word became interchangeable with cad, and was liberally applied to high-born sophisticates who also happened to be black-hearted drunkards. |
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| Joost Vijdt, the work's bald and formidable-looking patron, and his modestly cowled wife, the high-born Elisabeth Borluut, kneel prayerfully in panels of their own. |
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| Mrs Monteith was able to tell her son about their high-born slave ancestor because he had left a memoir. |
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