gentry

How To Use gentry In A Sentence

• How often I have I known him affect an open brow and a jovial manner, joining in the games of the gentry, and even in the sports of the common people, in order to invest himself with a temporary degree of popularity; while, in fact, his heart was bursting to witness what he called the degeneracy of the times, the decay of activity among the aged, and the want of zeal in the rising generation. Redgauntlet
• The so - called golden - collar gentry are essentially nothing but brain - workers with high income.
• He walked his audience through a litany of invaders: Mongol khans, Turkish beys, Swedish feudal lords, Polish and Lithuanian gentry, British and French capitalists, Japanese barons.
• It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.
• His early acting career probably began with performances before a network of recusant gentry in the Warwickshire area where he served as a resident player under the pseudonym Shakeshaft.
• This was a heavily populated region of numerous towns and nucleated villages, with dispersed patterns of landholding, small parishes and manors, and political power shared between the nobles, rich merchants, and a prosperous gentry.
• This profession scandalizes her mother, a member of the local gentry, a class slightly above that of most of the people Enid cares for.
• The landed gentry lost almost all of their power and status in the industrial revolution.
• There was no striking surge of bourgeois capital into land, no great expropriation of the landed aristocracy or gentry.
• Municipal reform might well replace a patrician oligarchy of local gentry and merchants, weakening collective action and undermining the corporate, civic culture.