How To Use Gentlewoman In A Sentence
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An adolescent girl being prepared for her role as a gentlewoman, Elizabeth would have been provided with a well-furnished room and fine bed.
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Madam, said the gentlewoman, wit ye well he shall be with you tomorn by dinner time.
Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
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Before Lady Macbeth is shown walking in her sleep and wringing her hands that are sullied with the damned spot that all great Neptune's ocean could not wash away, her doctor and her waiting gentlewoman are sent to tell the audience of her "slumbery agitation.
The Theory of the Theatre
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The King, who (till then) had beene very bad, dull, and slothfull, even as sleeping out his time of governement; beganne to revenge the wrongs done to this Gentlewoman very severely, and
The Decameron
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A mere gentlewoman would be the wife or daughter of one of the gentry.
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The mother, being needy, was pleased with the offer; algates, having the spirit of a gentlewoman, she said, 'Madam, tell me what I can do for you; if it consist with my honour, I will willingly do it, and you shall after do that which shall please you.'
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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I have not been terribly interested in the Post/Baldridge/ et al. cyclopedia approaches how to set the table and arrange your guests ,and which forks and spoons to use when and how, which glasses for the reds, whites, burgundies, etc., is pretty ubiquitously available, in as little or much detail as one might desire but rather in deeper treatments of the underlying elements of gentlemanly and gentlewomanly character and conduct.
Archive 2008-09-07
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The gentlewoman of the period is acknowledged to be active in the household and estate management, public affairs and even government.
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It traces from Norman times into Victorian, although its definition of ‘servant’ is rather broad, seemingly from the lowest scullion to the Queen Elizabeth's Chief Gentlewoman, Blanch Parry.
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Tho when they were at rest there came a gentlewoman knocking at the door, and called Galahad, and so the good man came to the door to wit what she would.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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Independent-minded Bess Crawford's upbringing is far different from that of the usual upper-middle-class British gentlewoman.
A Duty to the Dead by Charles Todd: Book summary
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And for that I know that thou art a good knight, I beseech you to help me; and for ye be a fellow of the Round Table, wherefore ye ought not to fail no gentlewoman which is disherited, an she besought you of help.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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She is a Protestant gentlewoman and a Fenian, more renowned for her high society literary salon than her Republican poetry.
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I am, said she, a gentlewoman that am disherited, which was sometime the richest woman of the world.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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He ogled the venerable gentlewoman his commere, who sat by him.
Travels through France and Italy
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By this and some other of my talk, my old tutoress began to understand me about what I meant by being a gentlewoman, and that I understood by it no more than to be able to get my bread by my own work; and at last she asked me whether it was not so.
Moll Flanders
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Heere I am to tell you, that this Gentlewoman had a servant, in the nature of an old maide, not indued with any well featured face, but instead thereof, she had the ugliest and most counterfeit countenance, as hardly could be seene a worse.
The Decameron
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She gave me the like cue to the gentlewoman.
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At the French court, the Princess Catherine is learning English from her gentlewoman Alice, finding the English words ‘foot’ and ‘gown’ shockingly immodest.
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His wife was an even-tempered gentlewoman from a respectable British family.
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Helena, a lowborn beauty, serves as a gentlewoman in the household of the Countess of Rousillion.
Capsule Summaries of the Great Books of the Western World
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She had never met a Norman gentleman or gentlewoman, only traders on market or fair days.
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After a moment, Olivia lowered her cup, looking the epitome of the composed gentlewoman, and said, ‘Oh, Elizabeth, I'm certain that isn't true.’
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Wherefore they sent the waiting Gentlewoman to have a diligent eye on t way where they entered, least any one should chance to steale upon them.
The Decameron
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Because they cannot ride an horse, which every clown can do; salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make congees, which every common swasher can do, his populus ridet, etc., they are laughed to scorn, and accounted silly fools by our gallants.
Mangan's
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We are reminded of Defoe's Moll Flanders, whose narrator ruefully recalls aspiring as a young maidservant to be a ‘Gentlewoman’ like a woman in her village who sits at her window dressed in fine clothes.
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Though charming and pleasant, she was too ill-tempered to be a perfect gentlewoman.
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But she is really quite the gentlewoman.
Emma
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But she is really quite the gentlewoman.
Emma
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Caroline died at Matta House on 10 July 1874, to be remembered as a clever, courageous, kind and courteous gentlewoman.
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Her small hands bore no calluses, and there were no visible scars on her person; she was obviously a gentlewoman.
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Because they cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do, salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make congees, which every common swasher can do … they are laughed to scorn and accounted silly fools by our gallants.
Inside Higher Ed
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These hours of drowsihead were the season of the old gentlewoman's attendance on her brother, while Phoebe took charge of the shop; an arrangement which the public speedily understood, and evinced their decided preference of the younger shopwoman by the multiplicity of their calls during her administration of affairs.
The House of the Seven Gables
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Gentlewoman — query — If I am confoundedly violent who never use violence in private or public — what are the Demagogues — the Consuls the
Letter 130
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Then she called the hermit: Sir Ulfin, I am a gentlewoman that would speak with the knight which is with you.
Le Morte d'Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory's book of King Arthur and of his noble knights of the Round table
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She was another Catholic gentlewoman of the 17th century, who spent her entire fortune making vestments of silk, gold and pearls, to the rage and despair of her relatives.
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However, this dreadful purpose was prevented, partly by the interposition of his wife, whose aim was not the death but immurement of his daughter, and partly by the tears and supplication of the young gentlewoman herself, who protested, that, although the ceremony of the church had not been performed, she was contracted to Fathom by the most solemn vows, to witness which he invoked all the saints in heaven.
The Adventures of Ferdinand Count Fathom
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In 1645 he was reported to be taking serious steps to carry out his views on divorce by paying his addresses to ‘a very handsome and witty gentlewoman’.
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She looked confused, a true gentleman, or gentlewoman in my case would never look a servant in the eye.
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His relationship with his patroness was a comfortable and easy one, and he did not hesitate to ask directly, "Will he indeed find the gentlewoman he's seeking at Elford?
The Confession of Brother Haluin
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For one middle-class gentlewoman who understands anything about cookery, or who really cares for it as a scientific art or domestic necessity, there are ten thousand who do not; yet our mothers and grandmothers were not ashamed to be known as deft professors, and homes were happier in proportion to the respect paid to the stewpan and the stockpot.
Modern Women and What is Said of Them A Reprint of A Series of Articles in the Saturday Review (1868)
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The skill of some of these amateurs is hardly surprising in view of the attention paid to drawing, painting, and other artistic pursuits in a gentlewoman's education.
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The Religious getting up at that Hour, going through the Cloyster to their Church, to chaunt Mattins, they found this young Gentlewoman sprawling in the midst of the Cloyster, almost dead with the Fall: They took her up, and put her into a warm Bed, let her blood, and apply'd all other
The Lining of the Patch-Work Screen
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The spirit she brought to the ship surprised him, for a gentlewoman.
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As subsequent events make clear, a well-dressed gentlewoman, walking the winter roads of outer London, is a sight that sticks in observers' minds.
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Some of the choicest specimens of old Brussels are shown in the now discarded "lappets," which when a lace head-piece and lappets were part of every gentlewoman's costume, were actually regulated by Sumptuary
Chats on Old Lace and Needlework
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When she was informed of his identity, she countered that she was a gentlewoman of some birth herself, and introduced herself as Mlle. d' Aubigny, dite La Maupin.
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He intended thus to see, while himself unknown, "the gentlewoman who sould have been his spouse, thinking to spy her pulchritud and behaviour unkenned by her.
Royal Edinburgh Her Saints, Kings, Prophets and Poets
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From large merchant Margaret Duncan, to innkeeper Sarah Dyer, [126] to tutoress Mary Pine, [127] to gentlewoman
Women and Finance in the Early National U.S.
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PETRUCHIO. Tell me , sweet Kate, and tell me truly too, Hast thou beheld a fresher gentlewoman?
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Because they cannot ride a horse, which every clown can do; salute and court a gentlewoman, carve at table, cringe and make conges, which every common swasher can do, [1990] hos populus ridet, &c., they are laughed to scorn, and accounted silly fools by our gallants.
Anatomy of Melancholy
