How To Use Gentleman In A Sentence

Then I saw how the ladies came alive at his gentlemanly attentions, how flattered they were by them.
The one are fellows called devilish good -- the other, fellows called devilish gentleman like. Godolphin, Complete
He was a true gentleman and always had time for fans. The Sun
The term "gentilhomme" is so liable to be confounded with "gentleman" that it needs explaining, for, despite the similarity of derivation, no two words can be more distinct. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876
That is a significant achievement, of which the hon. Gentleman should be aware.

I was haunted by the beauty of the landscape all about, of the natural ferneries then disappearing, and of the domed forest-trees on the slopes, and was fortunate in meeting a gentleman intent on preserving in art the beauties of his country. Sailing Alone Around the World
They took it in a very gentlemanly manner and directed me to a top-class agent. Times, Sunday Times
When the gentleman who guided me through the bush left me on the side of a pali, I discovered that Kahele, though strong, gentle, and sure-footed, possesses the odious fault known as balking, and expressed his aversion to ascend the other side in a most unmistakable manner. The Hawaiian Archipelago
But it was the bowler's general bearing and neatness which charmed the young writer almost as much as the name he'd been seeking for his newly conceived character of a gentleman's gentleman. From Jeeves to Herriot: all creatures great and sporty | Frank Keating
If he is anything of a gentleman, he will pay the money.
On an ancient stone stump, about three feet thick and three feet high, used for securing ships by ropes to the shore, and called a bollard or holdfast, an elderly gentleman sits facing the land with his head bowed and his face in his hands, sobbing. Back to Methuselah
I yesterday had a present of a guinea from a gentleman, a Mr Vaughn, who had read my book, and had desir'd the publisher to send me to his house, I write now to Mr Lofft, and Mr Gedge. Letter 30
The commander was an English gentleman Communist, the kind that he had come to think of as the deadliest. THE WHITE DOVE
It was of course the law of the place that they were never to take no notice, as Mr. Buckton said, whom they served; but this also never prevented, certainly on the same gentleman's own part, what he was fond of describing as the underhand game. In the Cage
Whatever the reason, I'll be wishing him well because, in our adversarial, interrogative culture, there's still a place for Parkinson's gentlemanly, self-effacing approach.
Even so, there's something odd about finding the everyman denim dungaree for sale at the store that once offered the promise of making every man a gentleman. 'Fake Authenticity' for Sale
The gentleman had a valet to wait on him hand and foot.
Otherwise, the sketch is exactly accurate, and is here presented as the unprejudiced description and estimate of a foreign gentleman, who had no inducement, such as might be attributed to a Southern writer, to overcolor his portrait. A Life of Gen Robert E Lee
This does not reflect well on the sedate, calm and collected gentleman that I hallucinated myself to be.
If I encounter a gentleman in such a state of déshabillé, I generally point and raise an eyebrow.
The sound of a car stopping outside the hotel drew me to the window as the waitress left me, and I was in time to see an old gentleman with a long white beard step from the interior of a Daimler landaulette, the door of which was held open by a dignified chauffeur, whose attire seemed to consist mainly of brass buttons. The Best British Short Stories of 1922
Perrault's ‘Bluebeard’ is the story of a rich, middle-aged gentleman, named for his swarthy chin and saturnine manner, who marries a young woman.
He'd become quite the little gentleman.
It seems this gentleman was waiting for the doctor.
In frame 15 the referee warned Holt for ungentlemanly conduct, in this case swearing.
Last evening a gentleman arrived here from Providence, by whom we are favour'd with the following, fresh advices from the northern army.
He was born and bred a gentleman.
The participants are middle-aged men in tweed hats that you might expect to see on a British gentleman farmer.
The spirit of my father grows strong in me, and I will no longer endure it; therefore allow me such exercises as may become a gentleman, or give me the poor allottery my father left me by testament; with that I will go buy my fortunes. Act I. Scene I. As You Like It
The forbearing use of power does not only form a touchstone, but the manner in which an individual enjoys certain advantages over others is a test of a true gentleman.
The wigged gentleman sitting opposite, still looking at the ceiling of the court.
Mr. Clarke I hesitate to intervene again, as the hon. Gentleman is getting near to the time left for my contribution.
The order of gentlemanly parleying and brokery has, therefore, with many apprehensions of calamity, been reluctantly and tardily giving ground before something that is of a visibly underbred order. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with. George Washington
An action has been taken against Mr Warden Harding, on behalf of the almsmen, by a gentleman acting solely on public grounds, and it is to be argued that Mr Harding takes nothing but what he received as a servant of the hospital, and that he is not himself responsible for the amount of stipend given to him for his work. The Warden
We walked up to the whites hill reserve and I got mud all over my white denim jeans, Anthony holding onto my waist and being a perfect gentleman.
_ Oh! 'Tis an Abomination to look like a Gentleman; long Hair is wicked and cavalierish, a Periwig is flat Popery, the Disguise of the The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume I
I take on board what my honourable friend and the right honourable gentleman say. Times, Sunday Times
It looked, to be sure, nothing like the milky portraits we had been shown in Sunday school, looked hardly at all like the handsome gentleman with the Aryan profile and the five-hundred-watt glow who effulged at us from calendars in Protestant parlors all over Dixie. Another Roadside Attraction
This was an ai or three-toed sloth. It was in the possession of a gentleman, who was collecting curiosities.
The elegant gentleman before us had acquired a certain fierceness. The Filigree Ball
He was a little gentleman, very polite and kind but he also had a cheeky sense of humour. The Sun
He'd been a perfect gentleman, lauding me with compliments, calling when he said he would.
‘Well, the evening began at the gentleman's club, where we were discussing Wittgenstein over a game of backgammon.’
American defender of theirs says just the same of their industrialism and free-trade; indeed, this gentleman, taking the bull by the horns, proposes that we should for the [78] future call industrialism culture, and the industrialists the men of culture, and then of course there can be no longer any misapprehension about their true character; and besides the pleasure of being wealthy and comfortable, they will have authentic recognition as vessels of sweetness and light. Culture and Anarchy
A Gentleman refers to Cordelia in eremite terms: she "redeems inlet from a ubiquitous curse" of sinfulness so dramatically demonstrated in Lear's elder daughters. Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
Is the hon. Gentleman suggesting that a person under the age of 18 should not have joined his unit in the Gulf?
One gentleman is so dedicated to locating obscure dispensers that he actually uses city transit to visit remote suburban garage sales.
Because even though he's a doofus, he is a gentleman.
The gentleman turned to a fine Newfoundland dog that stood near, looking up into his face.
As the male voice completed its speech, she slowly shifted herself around to face a gentleman of medium height who had a smiling, benign countenance on his careworn features.
It is not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
A kind, good natured and most conscientious gentleman, Jimmy was well qualified in his career and always brought the personal touch to his dealings with people.
There seemed something raffish and ungentlemanly about dealing in used cars, at least to the members of the court. TANK OF SERPENTS
If a gentleman cuts canals and erects terraces in his garden, their intrinsic value will be proportionable to the land and labor; but the price in reality will not always follow this proportion.
‘A gentleman never turns away from the opportunity to perform brave and noble deeds,’ Conor said.
The gentleman of the buckskins was the proprietor, with whose bailiff Harry Wakefield had dealt, or was in the act of dealing. Chronicles of the Canongate
As you probably know, Herr Sanders is a gentleman of advanced years, inclined to be a little vague.
Martin frowned inwardly at the citation of that worthy gentleman, and went on: I put stamps on all my manuscripts and started them off to the editors again. Chapter 22
‘Whisht, woman! whisht!’ said the blind man, angrily, shaking his locks; ‘dinna deave the gentleman wi’ your havers. Redgauntlet
‘He was a real gentleman and a lot of people had great affection for him,’ she said.
It was expected that a gentleman would pay a polite compliment to a lady of his acquaintance, but quite another matter to be seen to mean it.
He is undoubtedly a ** sonorous dactylist'* — and to him I add Mr. Jenner, Proctor of the Commons, and Commissary of St. PauVs, who is a gentleman of indefatigable politeness in opening the Archives of a The Rolliad, in Two Parts: Probationary Odes for the Laureatship; and Political Eclogues and ...
No, Sahib; no _khidmutgar_ waits on more than one gentleman," replied Across India Or, Live Boys in the Far East
She is certain that cruelty could never be apprehended from the Gentleman to whom this is addressed; and the poor animal would have suffered more as the victim of domestic economy, than of philosophical curiosity. Poems
They are already praising you for being ‘such a gentleman’ and promising next time the treat's on them!
Theda was therefore acutely conscious of one gentleman, rather stout and red of face.
Fracking divides neighbor from neighbor, roughly speaking the penurious locals from the weekend residents and gentleman farmers. Americans (Sort of) Fracking
Manager of its football team from 1963 to 1974, this prince of charm was a true gentleman, magnanimous in defeat and generous in victory.
Men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen.
Both gifted swordsmen, and both left-handed, uncle and nephew were putting on a skilled display-a show made more impressive by the fact that they were fighting in accordance with the most exacting rules of French dueling, but using neither the rapier-like smallsword that formed part of a gentleman's costume, nor the saber of a soldier. Dragonfly in Amber
Shame fa' him, say I,'at made his siller as a flesher i' the wast wyn' o' Howglen, to ettle at a gentleman o' a thoosan' year for ane o' his queans! Warlock o' Glenwarlock
Speaking of the produce in Tirhoot, the same gentleman says the "luggie," or measuring rod, varies throughout the district. The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
While his mind had been pursuing its intangible phantoms and turning in irresolution from such pursuit he had heard about him the constant voices of his father and of his masters, urging him to be a gentleman above all things.
“A troublesome, inquisitive old gentleman,” said Tyrrel to himself; “I remember him narrowly escaping the bastinado at Smyrna, for thrusting his advice on the Turkish cadi — and then I lie under a considerable obligation to him, giving him a sort of right to annoy me — Well, I must parry his impertinence as I can.” Saint Ronan's Well
He is such a gentleman, always polite and smiling for the crowd. The Sun
A good man to handle a shovel or spade, Eddie went quietly about his business, a gentleman throughout his life.
Yet there was the sense of an older gentleman wondering about the younger generation. Times, Sunday Times
Seamus was a grand gentleman who commanded great regard in the community Funeral obsequies will be published later.
Here he produced a decanter of curiously light wine, and a block of curiously heavy cake, and administered installments of those dainties to the young people: at the same time, sending out a meagre servant to offer a glass of something to the postboy, who answered that he thanked the gentleman, but if it was the same tap as he had tasted before, he had rather not. A Christmas Carol
I say that as a graduate of the University of Virginia who collapses in helpless laughter whenever I hear someone use the term “Virginia gentleman”. Matthew Yglesias » A New First
He thought vaguely what a good moral the contrast would have pointed to the sixteenthly of one of his great ancestor's sermons; then he fell to wondering if the old gentleman's theology would have stood the strain of an experience like this. Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes
A broadcaster of gentlemanly calm and courtesy, he was unsympathetic to the more confrontational style which increasingly became the norm. Times, Sunday Times
I thought it wise not to engage in any further confrontation with the gentleman on the issue.
The sportsmen cried out, "A hen pheasant!" but a gentleman present, who had often seen grouse in the north of England, assured me that it was a greyhen. The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1
Those times were somewhat wild and barbarous, signore, and a gentleman who protected his estates and asked tribute of strangers was termed a brigand, and became highly respected. Aunt Jane's Nieces Abroad
A gentleman or a person of noble birth to be seen perspiring wasn't recommended.
He had to be a gentleman: clubbable, competent, courteous and fair; but he had also to be not so gentlemanly as to be lazy or independent of his master.
That elderly gentleman was exceedingly on the jump , as nervous as a man well could be.
Is he the large, dark-haired, somewhat corpulent gentleman who favors brown coats? THE PROMISE IN A KISS
A ruddy, white-haired old gentleman, cordial, cultivated, and a little shyly if gladly reminiscent, received me in the office of his ship chandlering store in Bay Street, Charleston. The Rise of Cotton Mills in the South
The Abbot of that monastery was a gentleman by birth, a learned writer and a starets, that is, he belonged to that succession of monks originating in Walachia who each choose a director and teacher whom they implicitly obey. Father Sergius
Mr. Norman Lamont I assure the right hon. Gentleman that what he has said is not correct.
It was a dodgy existence, sharing more with high-risk adventure sports than gentlemanly pursuits.
In the beginning, the Troop had been recruited exclusively from the sons of planters, a gentleman’s outfit, each man supplying his own horse, arms, equipment, uniform and body servant.
Everybody in the parish who was not a boatman was a quarrier, unless he were the gentleman who owned half the property and had been a quarryman, or the other gentleman who owned the other half, and had been to sea. The Hand of Ethelberta
He is humble and a true gentleman who makes his choices based on honesty and integrity.
Such a curious thing for an established and respected elderly gentleman to do, now that she came to consider it seriously.
Realising that he wasn't getting any money from me, he began to glance away, and fastened his eyes on a wallet that a gentleman who passed us had in his hand.
Men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen.
Ye see, they say Dunbog is nae mair a gentleman than the blunker thats biggit the bonnie house down in the howm. Chapter III
A gentleman to his fingertips, Mattie commanded great regard and respect wherever he went.
No one hears a word from your mouth unbecoming the character of a polite gentleman; and I shall always be very regardful of what falls from mine. Pamela
‘Whisht, woman! whisht!’ said the blind man, angrily, shaking his locks; ‘dinna deave the gentleman wi’ your havers. Redgauntlet
As a disseminator of the news, the paper shall observe the decencies that are obligatory upon a private gentleman. Wonk Room » George Will’s Lies Live On
a bald-headed gentleman
(Let me again remind our readers that the rhetorical figure I so much enjoy using is called preterition, as in: "If I were as mean as my opponent, I would remind him that his mother sold not only homemade cakes to her male customers, but, being a gentleman, I will pass over that fact.") OUPblog
Cousin Mary was the very type of the beautiful old lady, with her silver hair and her sweet Southern Irish voice; foreigners must be warned that this resembles what they call a "brogue" about as little as the speech of a Highland gentleman resembles the jargon of the Glasgow slums. Surprised by Joy
A brown sunburnt gentleman, who appears in some inaptitude for sleep to be wandering abroad rather than counting the hours on a restless pillow, strolls hitherward at this quiet time. Bleak House
Here was no blue-jacketed, weather-beaten son of the sea, but a soft-spoken gentleman, for all the world the type of successful business man one meets in all the clubs. CHAPTER I
There were stables and linhays to the rear, landscaped gardens and, to cater for the most popular gentleman's sport of the day, a small bowling green was created on the site of the current swimming pool.
‘There was something ungentlemanly about a man who was so obviously on the make,’ says Ingrams.
I can quote a final figure to the hon. Gentleman, as he enjoys my quoting figures.
However, I advise the hon. Gentleman that crime has increased throughout the western world during the past half century.
Let me just point out that even addlebrained as he is, Theodore is still a gentleman.
He was stung by a person who looked like a gentleman.
The young gentleman listens manfully to my abortive attempts to demonstrate my interest with a light smile, while I slowly turn an inelegant purple.
At the same time, the expert Capuchin let his master see that he held upon his arm one of his victims, whom he was forming into a docile instrument; this was a young gentleman who wore a very short green cloak, a pourpoint of the same color, close-fitting red breeches, with glittering gold garters below the knee-the costume of the pages of Monsieur. The French Immortals Series — Complete
The individual bearing the name Kemble, with whom I should have been proud to claim even remote kindred, was a young gentleman Further Records, 1848-1883: A Series of Letters
The comic conflict between the man of business and the true-hearted old gentleman is done with in the early stages of the novel, for all Lorry's actions are motivated by service and duty rather than by self-interest.
Madame Monconseil assures me that you are most surprisingly improved in your air, manners, and address: go on, my dear child, and never think that you are come to a sufficient degree of perfection; Nil actum reputans, si quid superesset agendum; and in those shining parts of the character of a gentleman, there is always something remaining to be acquired. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
A kike is the Jewish gentleman who just left the room. Eastwood thinks political correctness has made society humourless
The right hon. and learned Gentleman has advanced his idea of how to encourage manufacturing investment.
This year the 40th anniversary of Plantagenet Wine, is the story and history of its wines and founder Tony Smith. In 1960 Tony Smith, an English gentleman, migrated to Australia.
Edinburgh, which no other city has to shew; a college of the deaf and dumb, who are taught to speak, to read, to write, and to practice arithmetick, by a gentleman, whose name is Braidwood. A Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland
“We have no doubt his liberality is well represented by his surviving partner,” said the gentleman, presenting his credentials. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Stave 1 Marley’s Ghost | Solar Flare: Science Fiction News
He speaks of an 84-year-old gentleman who comes into his post office once a week and stays to chat for an hour.
Does John Footman, when he asks permission to go and spend the evening with some friends, pass his time in thuggee; waylay and strangle an old gentleman, or two; let himself into your house, with the house-key of course, and appear as usual with the shaving-water when you ring your bell in the morning? Roundabout Papers
A gentleman by the name of Martin responded to my e-mail.
Which banquet being ended, the Spaniardes in recompence of our courtesie, caused a great heard of white buls, and kyne to be brought together from the mountaines, and appoynted for euery Gentleman and The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation. Vol. XIII. America. Part II.
After dinner, he took me out to a movie and was a complete gentleman the entire time.
Peacham, indeed, offered drawing as ‘a gentleman's exercise’ which could also serve ‘for the necessarie use and generall benefite of diuers trades-men and artificers, as namly painters, ioyners, free-masons, cutters, and carvers.’
It's not the gay coat that makes the gentleman.
Opposite, a portly gentleman with a magnificent beard adjusted his sword and bowed his head minutely in welcome.
I remember one gentleman saying he felt anybody else in the room was like an intrusion on his privacy.
A small dapper gentleman two seats away knocked back a shot of something and exhaled an invisible sweet cloud.
[228] This chivalrous gentleman, well known as the personification of integrity and honour, had resided many years in the Islands and spoke Tagálog fluently. The Philippine Islands
For some reason I always imagined the author to be some tweedy pipe smoking gentleman - so I was surprised to discover the author's name behind the initials - Henrietta Elizabeth Marshall!
Ever since I was a wee lad of five, it's been imprinted on my brain to be chivalrous and gentlemanly.
Kindness is a spiritual gentleman. Meanness is a spiritual rascal. Dr T.P.Chia
It's the mark of a gentleman to stand up when someone enters the room.
Then ships bearing news might reach Alexandria by the dozen -- that is, the greybeard added with a defiant glance at the daintily clad city gentleman -- if they were allowed to pass the Pharos or go through the Poseidon basin into the Eunostus. Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works
HONOWITZ: Yes, I mean, the source and what I've read is -- is the bottom line is -- people that were up from this gentleman Gonzalez, who they say is the shooter, knew what was going on and the people lower were just kind of lassoed into this robbery. CNN Transcript Jul 31, 2009
If you see him very savagely cut up in "The Revolver," you will recognize the kindly hands which held the bistoury, scalpel, and tenaculum, and the gentleman who wept while he wounded. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859
All I can manage to say is that Melody defended me like a saint, and Pete acted… very… unbefitting of a gentleman.
And be sure that close to little Georgiana, also under inspection by the same gingerous gentleman, sits Fledgeby. Our Mutual Friend
On the bus on my way home, I was very polite to an elderly gentleman by offering him my side of the seat where he'd be more comfortable.
That gentleman bellowed in an infuriated manner.
oughta be a gentleman, since his name is William.
Go is one of the most ancient games, and is considered one of the four arts of the Chinese gentleman, along with calligraphy, painting, and playing the guqin. Archive 2007-03-01
He was a gentleman in the true sense of the word, a man who never spoke ill of another human being and always allowed for human frailty.
He believed that no ladies were to be of the party, and that the gentlemen were chiefly of the King's new friends among the Huguenots, such as Coligny, his son-in-law Teligny, Rochefoucauld, and the like, among whom the young gentleman could not fall into any very serious harm, and might very possibly be influenced against a Roman Catholic wife. The Chaplet of Pearls
It is no wonder that the right hon. Gentleman wants to support elements of the social charter being imposed here.
Mr. Lawrence Is the hon. Gentleman in favour of reducing the age of consent in homosexual offences to 16?
This showed a dark-suited gentleman, reclining languidly on a cushioned backrest, gazing through the eyepiece of an immense telescope.
Such an education would produce a cultured gentleman, a well-rounded person in whom knowledge and virtue would mix perfectly. Christianity Today
Antiquity to angling is like social position to the gentleman:I would rather prove myself a gentleman, by being learned and humble, valiant and inoffensive, virtuous and communicable, than by any fond ostentation of riches, or, wanting those virtues myself, boast that these were in my ancestors; and yet I grant, that where a noble and ancient descent and such merit meet in any man, it is a double dignification of that person. . . The ideal of the gentleman
Mr. Darnay tells Sydney Carton, the wigged gentleman who resembles him (and who is an attorney working for the defense), to tell Miss Manette that he is deeply sorry to have been the cause of her agitation.
He's a real gentleman, always kind and considerate.
“Ta deil ding out her Cameronian een — what gies her titles to dunch gentlemans about?” The Heart of Mid-Lothian
May 12th, 2006 at 10: 09 pm james risser says: tice will turn around at some point in his testimony to see at least one of his family members sitting rather close to a man in black trench coat with a gun pointing to said family member, in the right-hand pocket of the mysterious gentleman … or, Think Progress » NSA Whistleblower To Expose More Unlawful Activity: ‘People…Are Going To Be Shocked’
Such an attachment from so true and loyal a gentleman could make no woman angry. Vanity Fair
Under them, the entire company -- most notably McLeavy as a tender-tough Stella and Tim Richards as unpolished but compassionate gentleman-caller Mitch -- vivify a revival that works to remind anyone who's forgotten that here's one of the handful of preeminent 20-century American plays. David Finkle: Blanchett as Blanche in Tennessee Williams's Streetcar Named Desire
Is Obama checking out a girl's dress? www. metee.com Obama: More of a Gentleman Than Sarkozy and Berlusconi www. buzzfeed.com Politics WN.com - Photown News
Here and there a gentleman was teaching a lady to swim, with his arms round her; here and there a wild nereid was splashing another; a young Jew pursued a flight of naiads with a section of dead eel in his hand. Short Stories and Essays (from Literature and Life)
How can such an indelicate phrase come from a gentleman like yourself?
Activities such as picnics, walks, riding, croquet, billiards and lawn tennis could show off the young lady at her best angle and prove to the gentleman her intelligence and worthiness of being his bride. The Country House Party | Edwardian Promenade
It was not till after a regular battle royal that that young gentleman could be brought to submit to be "larned" by any one but his own special My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life
He's a real gentleman, always kind and considerate.
The battle could not have been fought forty years ago, because, on one side, the Church was an idle phantasm, the gentleman too ignorant, the workman too merely animal; while, on the other, the Manchester cotton-spinners were all Tories, and the shopkeepers were a distinct class interest from theirs. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography
The Gentleman was as diligent to do Justice to his fine Parts, as the Lady to her beauteous Form: You might see his Imagination on the Stretch to find out something uncommon, and what they call bright, to entertain her; while she writhed her self into as many different Spectator, April 13, 1711
It's an amazing gentleman's type of music from the 1960s: a mix of traditional Cuban styles with doo-wop, bossa nova and rock. Luciano Q&A
In the afternoon, however, they were joined by some players who were performing in the town; and from one of those he learned that the two strangers were from Ireland -- He who gave him the crownpiece being a gentleman of the name of Comerford, a merchant -- he who gave him his blessing, a Mr. The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Volume I, Number 3
The gentleman had a valet to wait on him hand and foot.
It was thought," says Nashe, in his Quaternio, "a kind of solecism, and to savour of effeminacy, for a young gentleman in the flourishing time of his age to creep into a coach, and to shroud himself from wind and weather: our great delight was to out-brave the blustering boreas upon a great horse; to arm and prepare ourselves to go with Mars and Bellona into the field was our sport and pastime; coaches and caroches we left unto them for whom they were first invented, for ladies and gentlemen, and decrepit age and impotent people. Bracebridge Hall
Kindness is a spiritual gentleman. Meanness is a spiritual rascal. Dr T.P.Chia
Our vast inside sources cued us in about this extraordinary gentleman.
At four o'clock, we may expect this peace - making gentleman.
For all his foppish tendencies, Falworth was an amiable gentleman and an unexceptionable partner. WHOLE SECRET LOVE
The clean-shaven gentleman on the couch, with the excellent posture, the pastel golf shirt, and that strangely chaste yet fiery look in his eye?
But I need not have used all that caution, for the old gentleman was grown dim-sighted by some distemper which had fallen upon his eyes, and could but just see well enough to walk about, and not run against a tree or into a ditch. Moll Flanders
The tall, well - dressed gentleman standing before me was crythe old sea wolf of my imagination.
He retired to his estate in Norfolk, and lived the life of a country gentleman.
Theda was therefore acutely conscious of one gentleman, rather stout and red of face.
It is not the gay coat that makes the (fine) gentleman.
Barber, the gentleman farmer and cheesemaker, is singularly privileged. Times, Sunday Times
Bearing this in mind, special mention must be made of one visibly refreshed gentleman who was wearing a sort of tartan mannequin jacket and matching bondage trews.
For a gentleman there are only two decorous states , absolute poverty or overpowering wealth.
[Illustration: "A Solemn Gentleman, with a troublesome cough, reading aloud to his Wife."] _Miss P. _ (_standing opposite "The Flight into Egypt" reading_). Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 102, January 16, 1892
You dies _straight, _ like a gentleman -- not cribbled up like a snow-fish, chucked out on the ice of the river St Lawrence, with your knees up to your nose, or your toes stuck into your arm-pits, as does take place in some of your foreign complaints; but straight, quite straight, and limber, like a _gentleman_. Peter Simple; and, The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2
Mr. Brooke I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his opening expression of sympathy.
The young gentleman declared, rubbing his eyes, that he did not want it now; but however Fleda contrived to dispel that illusion, and bread and butter was found to have the same dulcifying properties at Queechy that it owns in all the rest of the world. Queechy
Traditional freaks challenged audiences 'notions of sexuality: the bearded lady was an early drag queen, contortionists challenged the mind to consider sexual impossibilities and the sword swallower spoke for itself, gentleman. Piper Weiss: What's So Freaky About a Pussycat Doll?
The old gentleman won't have bad behaviour.
The large bluish stone which the gentleman acquired with the red stones proved to be iolite, sometimes called cordierite or water-sapphire A Text-Book of Precious Stones for Jewelers and the Gem-Loving Public
Martin - always the perfect gentleman - got to his feet when my mother walked in.
A gentleman decked out in silver spandex, moonboots and a sequined tank top was too tired and sweaty from dancing to talk but there was plenty of Ms. Bartsch's old flock that would ― about their hopes for nightlife, now that $1,200 bottles of Cristal might be a harder sell. Move Over, Kids! Original Club Mama Susanne Bartsch Has Still Got It
My father, a fresh-faced young man, newly employed by a paper company, looks very proper and gentlemanly.
The door flew open and in dashed a gentleman with a serviette round his neck.
Gentleman, you see, do not play cricket with knaves.

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