"Lowborn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... shame,' said the lady, 'that so lowborn a churl as thou art should have knights yield to thee who should ...
— King Arthur's Knights - The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls • Henry Gilbert
... the last card has been played, and the game ended; for I gave her distinctly to understand that at my death, Prince would inherit every iota of my estate, and that my will had cut them off without a cent. I meant it then, I mean it now. I swear that lowborn fiddler's brood shall never darken these doors; but somehow, I am unable to get rid of the strange, disagreeable sensation the girl left behind her, as a farewell legacy. She stood there at that glass door, and raised her hand like a prophetess. 'General Darrington, when you lie down ...
— At the Mercy of Tiberius • August Evans Wilson
... had never fully approved of Ragnar's last marriage, and murmured frequently because they were obliged to obey a lowborn queen, and one who bore the vulgar name of Krake. Little by little these murmurs grew louder, and finally they came to Ragnar's ears while he was visiting Eystein, King of Svithiod (Sweden). Craftily his courtiers went to work, and finally prevailed upon him to sue for the princess's hand. He ...
— Legends of the Middle Ages - Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art • H.A. Guerber
... individual, what was the romance of a childish girl, to the honour and well-being of an ancient and noble family? It was her ambition to see her girl become the Countess Lovel, and no feeling of gratitude should stand in her way. She would rather slay that lowborn artisan with her own hand than know that he had the right to claim her as his mother-in-law. Nevertheless, the slow tears crept down her cheeks as she thought of former days, and of the little parlour behind the tailor's shop at Keswick, ...
— Lady Anna • Anthony Trollope
... Courteous besought: "Though thou art wan of face, Thou wear'st a noble air, which through thy griefs Shineth as lightning doth behind its cloud. Tell me thy name, and whose thou art, and whence. No lowborn form is thine, albeit thou com'st Wearing no ornaments; and all alone Wanderest—not fearing men—by some spell safe." Hearing which words, the child of Bhima spake Gratefully this: "A woful woman I, And woful wife, but faithful to my vows; High-born, ...
— Hindu Literature • Epiphanius Wilson
... virtue. Let us teach our children, as grand old Lilly taught our forefathers 300 years ago—"It is virtue, gentlemen, yea, virtue that maketh gentlemen; that maketh the poor rich, the subject a king, the lowborn noble, the deformed beautiful. These things neither the whirling wheel of fortune can overturn, nor the deceitful cavillings of worldlings separate, neither sickness abate, nor ...
— Historical Lectures and Essays • Charles Kingsley |
