To his eyes their historic past clothed them with its interest, and the long patience of their hope and hatred under foreign rule Ennobled them, while to hers they were too often only tiresome visitors, whose powers of silence and of eloquence were alike to be dreaded.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
It was a doctrine suited to the easy social life which succeeded to the great political career, the energetic ambition, and the creative genius which Ennobled the great age of Athenian liberty.
"The Roman Poets of the Republic"
W. Y. Sellar
Wealth Ennobled by a cultivated mind, and refined taste, but which had lost all charms for her, in the danger which threatened her most precious treasure.
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse