Word: noblemen
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Sophomore Theatricals were acted to a full house last night. The performance began at 8.30, with a chorus of gorgeous, though needy, noblemen, who explained to music from. "Fra Diavolo" that, having been crossed in love, ruined, and otherwise maltreated, had taken to piracy to retrieve their broken fortunes; that their captain, Stubbs, having insisted on taking a ship with ladies on board, they had put him in irons, and now fresh from a ship-wreck were in doubt what to do. A solo, rendered by Weaver as Stubbs, and a chorus tune, "The Bowery Grenadiers" deserve notice. The stage...
Each college has its own standing, either social or literary, and its men are judged accordingly. Christ Church has always been pre-eminently the college for noblemen, and many of England's most distinguished sons, among the nobility, have been graduated there...
...earl smiled indulgently. He was charmed with her artlessness and spontaneity. She had a delightful little nose, too. He admired the set of her drapery. He thought of her well-invested dividends. His heart was touched. He glanced sideways - English noblemen never stare - at the title of the book she carried. It was Joseph Cook's Heredity...