1.   According to legend, Eurosia was a maiden of noble birth, who was promised to a pagan.

2.   He had seen her sitting at the high table among the other ladies of noble birth who served the Empress.

3.   His long fingernails attest that his was not a life of hard physical labour but that he was probably of noble birth.

4.   Its ranks are open to all young men of noble birth regardless of where they live within the Empire.

5.   This woman of noble birth chose to study philosophy rather than relish in her beauty.

6.   Their heads, none of whom was of high noble birth and some of whom were of relatively humble origins, were officials rather than statesmen.

7.   There is nothing surprising in this continuing emphasis on noble birth and high social rank.

8.   At the same time, Rembrandt was giving to his dull bankers and bureaucrats an air of profundity, an illusion of noble character if not noble birth.

9.   By tradition, commanders are of noble birth, and Estermann was not.