Today's starflights are the ignominious end to a noble dream that is slowly winding down to its natural conclusion.

He was an experiment, a noble dream gone wrong.

A noble dream," I said, "if you can manage it.

It may be a dream, but it is a noble dream.

Perhaps he owed them, and the noble dream of Chrysalis, something better than a final bloody massacre?

Women will cooperate to give men higher aims, to give their sons nobler dreams.

Mr. Perot asserted that America's social programs started with "noble dreams" but have been broken for quite some time.

It all seemed like a noble dream which was coming true.

Even now, it seemed a noble dream to turn barren matter into a thriving paradise that could rival this one.

To unite the Elder Isles once again, as of old: that is a noble dream!