"Highborn" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... really liked Stephanie, nevertheless her opinions carried weight. A school-mate who dresses well, talks continually of highborn friends, and "gives herself airs" can nearly always command a certain following among the more unthinking of her comrades, and such girls as Beth Broadway, Alice and Merle Denham, and Mary Acton were easily ...
— For the Sake of the School • Angela Brazil
... reason that, long ago, In this kingdom by the sea, A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling My beautiful Annabel Lee; So that her highborn kinsmen came And bore her away from me, To shut her up in a sepulcher In this kingdom by ...
— Four Famous American Writers: Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe, • Sherwin Cody
... Austrian boy, smiling faintly. "I am highborn and very highborn, although it's not my fault. You, I take it, by your accent, are American and these things, of course, don't count ...
— The Hosts of the Air • Joseph A. Altsheler |
