Careful Words

nobly (adv.)

  The nobly born must nobly meet his fate.

Euripides (484-406 b c): Alcmene. Frag. 100.

  Had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Coriolanus. Act i. Sc. 3.

The reason firm, the temperate will,

Endurance, foresight, strength, and skill;

A perfect woman, nobly planned,

To warn, to comfort, and command.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): She was a Phantom of Delight.