base-born

An exchange of cradle-babes, and the base-born slave may wear the purple imperially, and the royal infant begs an alms as wheedlingly or cringe to the lash as abjectly as his meanest subject.

CHAPTER 20 2010

Then I'm a wretch, a base-born wretch: say whence.

Ion 2008

Those which can look at the rays of the sun, without blinking, it loves and holds dear; those which cannot stand to look at the light, it abandons, as base-born, nor troubles itself henceforth concerning them.

Currently reading: The Master of the Saint Ursula Legend Confusion 2008

Could you learn jurisprudence under a base-born blotter of parchment, such as Saunders Fairford; or from the empty pedantic coxcomb, his son, who now, forsooth, writer himself advocate?

Redgauntlet 2008

Those which can look at the rays of the sun, without blinking, it loves and holds dear; those which cannot stand to look at the light, it abandons, as base-born, nor troubles itself henceforth concerning them.

Archive 2008-08-01 2008

To me art thou a worthier lord than that base-born king, who now lets it be plainly seen in this struggle

Heracles 2008

To me art thou a worthier lord than that base-born king, who now lets it be plainly seen in this struggle

Heracles 2008

Then I'm a wretch, a base-born wretch: say whence.

Ion 2008

If I say I'm for change, then that should be good enough for base-born scum like you!

A Candidate Everyone Can Agree On Don Lewis 2008

Cervantes, who lost an arm at the battle of Lepanto, and helped to win that famous day, was called a ‘base-born, handless dotard’ by the scribblers of his day; there was an interval of ten years between the appearance of the first part and the second of his sublime Don Quixote for lack of a publisher.

A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007