How To Use Gentlefolk In A Sentence
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Perhaps only the grooviest gentlefolk get to venture beyond the shop.
Times, Sunday Times
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But Katy didn't care what "gentlefolks" did or did not do, and insisted upon having Punch called back.
What Katy Did Next
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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
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'What your Honor pleases,' was the answer, 'but gentlefolks gives half-a-crown.'
Camilla
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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
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They are real gentlefolks, that is what they are.
Doctor Luttrell's First Patient
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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He knew that his daughter had made great strides in social elevation, and that her children, when he had seen them last, had been quite like "gentlefolk's children;" but to see this young princess step forth graciously out of a first-class carriage, and address him as "grandpapa," took away his breath.
Phoebe, Junior
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The huntsman stood halfway up the knoll holding up his whip and the gentlefolk rode up to him at a footpace; the hounds that were far off on the horizon turned away from the hare, and the whips, but not the gentlefolk, also moved away.
War and Peace
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I might well be excused, a raw provincial lad, if I did feel shyish in the presence of such gentlefolk.
Marjorie
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You see, you must get down beneath the gentleman or would-be gentleman-farmer, down to the man who never conceived the idea of ruffling it with gentlefolk.
The Bed-Book of Happiness
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'What your Honor pleases,' was the answer, 'but gentlefolks gives half-a-crown.'
Camilla
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gentlefolk" followed Reynolds 'lantern towards the vicarage, and Mr. Thomas Reid, the conservative and melancholic sexton, put out the lights and locked the church doors, muttering a sour laudation of more primitive times, when "the gentlefolk minded their business.
A Tale of a Lonely Parish
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We have had gentlefolks down from London about it, men who argue and palaver, and wear high hats and are said to have long bills, and there is talk of a Government cutter to protect us, towed by red tape, and the trawlers are to cast their nets farther asea.
Without Prejudice
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They attempt to replicate domestic society, driving to the club with ‘the jog-trot of country gentlefolk between green hedgerows.’
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For much of the 19th century wave upon wave of gentlefolk of both nations descended on the Riviera, sketching, botanising and indulging in soirees musicales, and all for the sake of their health.
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These are what she calls gentlefolk's airs, I suppose!
The House of the Seven Gables
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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.
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Go along about your business, miss; and don't you preshume to come to such a house as this durin 'gentlefolks' dinner-hours another time.
Henry Dunbar A Novel
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In them he tells various fairy tales, of changeling children, and of the "gentlefolk".
Susan Hated Literature
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Perhaps only the grooviest gentlefolk get to venture beyond the shop.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tussaud modeled the heads immediately after these gentlefolks were guillotined.
Halloween Blogging 2008: "Residents" of Madame Tussaud's Chamber of Horrors, 1886
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Hedin was no unwelcome guest in the houses of gentlefolks, and he was often seen at the judge's and the pastor's omber parties.
Tales From Two Hemispheres
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'Why you've no nous, Mr. Dubster; Mrs. Purdle's a very good sort of woman and the best friend I have in the world, perhaps, at the bottom; but she i'n't a sort of person to talk of before gentlefolks.
Camilla
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Outside the towns in the West there are few of what _you_ would call gentlefolk," said he, with just the faintest emphasis of good-natured scorn for English prejudice; "nor are there any 'country houses' as you understand the name in England.
Lady Betty Across the Water
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'gentlefolk' in the book are the merest marionettes, but there are descriptive passages of first-rate vigour, and the voice of wisdom is heard from the lips of an early Greek choregus in the figure of an old parson called Mr. Wyvern.
The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories
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Perhaps only the grooviest gentlefolk get to venture beyond the shop.
Times, Sunday Times
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The sum is the money lost on sales of cigars and brandies when gentlefolk once repaired after dinner to the Oval Office downstairs to blow rings of smoke and converse.
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To slightly rephrase Hal in his next play, Henry V, ‘And gentlefolk in New York now abed / Shall think themselves accursed they were not here.’
