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Once upon a time there was a peer who knew the frailty of unennobled man.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 21, 1914 by Various

There was much mourning in England among all sorts of people for this rarely noble, unennobled man.

From Queen Victoria, her girlhood and womanhood by Greenwood, Grace

Visions of close and dear companionship appealed to me but the more strongly for my wanderings in the wilderness, my grasping at pleasures unennobled by thought or feeling.

From The Country Doctor by Marriage, Ellen

It may be taken almost as a rule by the unennobled ones of this country, that the sudden possession of a title would at once raise the price of every article consumed twenty per cent.

From The Eustace Diamonds by Trollope, Anthony