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Meanings of noblesse oblige in English

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Usage of noblesse oblige in English
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It's noblesse oblige in politics as well as in society, you know.
The Lion and the Mouse; a Story of an American Life
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The officers marched more stiffly as though conscious of official noblesse oblige.
Port O' Gold / A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts
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Female emancipation is not quite complete even in America, and noblesse oblige!
At the Mercy of Tiberius
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It was a case of noblesse oblige; their youth constrained them.
The Tree of Heaven
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Will did protect blacks out of a sense of noblesse oblige.
Rising tide: the great mississippi flood of 1927 and how it chan...
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But noblesse oblige: an admiral does not desert his ship or its crew.
Maximilian in Mexico: A Woman's Reminiscences of the French Inte...
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Mostly, they just put up with the blog out of sheer noblesse oblige.
Wired
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It's a sort of offshoot from that very tyrannical law of noblesse oblige.
The Small House at Allington
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Jackie smiled graciously and did her part, the noblesse oblige she had talked about.
Dexter’s Final Cut
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He was maturer, with a deeper sense of noblesse oblige.
Balloons
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As for you and me, noblesse oblige'-hewatched me narrowly.
My Antonia
12
The lady I speak of lived and died under the old regime of noblesse oblige.
Vendetta: A Story of One Forgotten
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Tildy put herself into noblesse oblige mode and stepped out onto the driveway to meet Chloe.
Unfinished desires: a novel
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Nevertheless, noblesse oblige was the watchword at Severndale.
Peggy Stewart, Navy Girl, at Home
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So much for noblesse oblige and sportsmanlike conduct.
The Irish Times
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Vanity is the secret of noblesse oblige; not radical virtue-sincewe are beginning to be bookish again.
Mrs. Falchion, Volume 1.
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