These and such-like deeds alienated the minds of all his chief nobility from him.

The victor king sat in judgment upon the recreant, surrounded by his chief nobility and vassal kings.

The princes accordingly, or chief nobility, in the German communities, assembled together to judge of such matters.

He had married a Scottish lady, heir of a great family, and allied to all the chief nobility.

Eighty of his principal officers followed his example, and were united to the daughters of the chief nobility of Persia.

A large procession, headed by the Czar, the Czarina, and all the chief nobility of the court, followed in the funeral train.

Unhappily, his mother and most of the chief nobility still are heathens, while the severe edicts against the Christians yet remain in force.

James Harrington's ideal of a commonwealth was the design, therefore, of a man in many ways connected with the chief nobility of England.

On either side of the pavilion were others, each of a different style of architecture, for the use of the chief nobility of the realm.