From humble beginnings

Usage examples of lowborn.

Yet it was not politic to cast her off, for she was no Metella Calva, coupling indiscriminately with the lowborn, nor did she couple with the highborn.

Metellus Numidicus, who was feeling the strain of having to house his sister, Metella Calva, and whichever lowborn lover she fancied.

Accompanied only by List, he rode with the Wickans, to the flanks and to the rear, he marched with the Seventh, with the Hissari Loyals, the Marines, the sappers, the nobles and the mud-bloodsas the lowborn refugees had taken to calling themselves.

Tis a pity that thou beest not of noble blood, for thy mien appearth not like that of one lowborn.

The sin of concupiscence, a weakness for the pleasures of the flesh, afflicted high and lowborn alike: I Once she was gone, the old margrave returned immediately to the matter at hand.

If we were to go out into the Forum Romanorum now this minute, and ask passers-by to define informers, I believe their answers would include: immoral patricians, men who are intent on rising rapidly despite lack of personal talent, men without principle, and lowborn toadies hanging around the skirts of power.

This was apparently something in the way of a lowborn toast, for the six dregs of the earth raised their teacups in unison, pinkies politely extended like so many small cannons, and slurped noisily.