| 1. | I even tried a Carlyle-like scorn of this wretched aristocracy in decay. - from The Time Machine by H. G. (Herbert George) Wells |
| 2. | I believe the aristocracy are suffering very much from it just at present. - from The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde |
| 3. | No oppressive aristocracy has ever prevailed in the colonies. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 4. | But allow me to ask what it consists in, that aristocracy of Vronsky or of anybody else, beside which I can be looked down upo. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |
| 5. | The aristocracy of the lance has allied itself with the nobility of the cannon. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 6. | Thus arises timocracy, which is intermediate between aristocracy and oligarchy. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 7. | There was another clan of aristocracy around there--five or six families --mostly of the name of Shepherdson. - from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Complete by Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) |
| 8. | More nearly than any other government of Hellas, the Pythagorean league of three hundred was an aristocracy of virtue. - from The Republic by Plato |
| 9. | First, then, I said, let us enquire how timocracy the government of honour arises out of aristocracy the government of the best. - from The Republic by Plato |