Noble in example sentence

'If, with his poverty, Julien had been noble, my love would be nothing more than a piece of vulgar folly, an unfortunate marriage; I should not object to that; it would lack that element which characterises great passion: the immensity of the difficulty to be overcome and the black uncertainty of events.'

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I wrote about Emily Apt who initially became a caseworker in the welfare system because she decided that was the most noble thing she could do, but quickly learned, not only did she not like it, but she wasn't really good at it.

And I said, "Well it's odd that you've learned of this as a noble kind of pursuit, but yeah, I know those guys."

One great challenge of modern life is to find the staircase amid all the clutter and then to do something good and noble once you climb to the top.

But if you can't win, then you should fight for a noble cause, because then you'll be remembered.

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