Aristocracies had risen and tottered since history had kept its score, but here, surviving all change, remained a simple graciousness, and a stamina of great heartedness like that which royal breeding had instilled into those satin-coated horses out there in their barns; steadfastness of courage and a high spirit.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
There are some Americans who are so foolish as to affect the pride of the hereditary Aristocracies, and who have some fancied traditional standard by which they think to keep their blue blood pure.
"Manners and Social Usages"
Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
"We have two Aristocracies," said she.
"Lady-Betty-Across-the-Water"
Lowell, Orson