How To Use gentlefolk In A Sentence
- Perhaps only the grooviest gentlefolk get to venture beyond the shop. Times, Sunday Times
- But Katy didn't care what "gentlefolks" did or did not do, and insisted upon having Punch called back. What Katy Did Next
- In the case of "gentlefolks" the question is generally solved to the satisfaction of everybody by the man marrying the woman, and by his gracefully presenting "veils of friendship" to all her relations and friends, together with articles of food; but if by mischance she should be placed in an awkward position before the eyes of the world, and the man will not hear of a matrimonial union, then efforts are made to prevent the birth of the child alive. In the Forbidden Land
- 'What your Honor pleases,' was the answer, 'but gentlefolks gives half-a-crown.' Camilla
- It were a better feeling if the "gentlefolk" would only patronize ornaments of a certain value, or none at all, but I suppose such a stretch of self-denial would be quite beyond the powers of resistance pertaining to human, or rather woman's nature. Shams
- They are real gentlefolks, that is what they are. Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
- For much of the 19th century wave upon wave of gentlefolk of both nations descended on the Riviera, sketching, botanising and indulging in soirées musicales, and all for the sake of their health.
- Mrs. Poyser has something almost of Yankee shrewdness and angularity; but the figure of a New England rural housewife would lack a whole range of Mrs. Poyser's feelings, which, whatever may be its effect in real life, gives its subject in a novel at least a very picturesque richness of color; the constant sense, namely, of a superincumbent layer of "gentlefolks," whom she and her companions can never raise their heads unduly without hitting. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
- It is often debated whether there was a real distinction, in later medieval England, between the culture of the expanded aristocracy of gentlefolk and that of the higher, traditional, chivalrous aristocracy.
- He had the character, among the gentlefolks, of being such a well-behaved man, that they were determined to bring him in. Charles Dickens and Uriah Heep