How To Use Gentry In A Sentence
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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
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The so - called golden - collar gentry are essentially nothing but brain - workers with high income.
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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.
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It was built originally by one of the old wool merchants, who wanted to establish his family as landed gentry.
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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.
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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.
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This profession scandalizes her mother, a member of the local gentry, a class slightly above that of most of the people Enid cares for.
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The landed gentry lost almost all of their power and status in the industrial revolution.
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There was no striking surge of bourgeois capital into land, no great expropriation of the landed aristocracy or gentry.
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Municipal reform might well replace a patrician oligarchy of local gentry and merchants, weakening collective action and undermining the corporate, civic culture.
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More numerous than the gentry-become-townsmen were the burgesses who fraternised with the gentry.
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While it can all seem a bit smug to some, it is a more democratic scene than in decades past, though a fascination with the gentry remains.
Times, Sunday Times
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Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
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The so - called golden - collar gentry are essentially nothing but brain - workers with high income.
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But times have changed and the chatelaine, Lucinda Shaw Stewart, has diversified into other businesses, like so many other members of the landed gentry.
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The methods they employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour.
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He was a very free-spoken man (the gentry of those days were much prouder than at present), and used to say to me in his haughty easy way,
The Memoires of Barry Lyndon
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Hoyle's rebellions were revolts of the commons, taken over and defused by the gentry and nobility.
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One of the gentry he used to ferry about, a decent cove who always treated him civilly, writes letters and the sentence is commuted to transportation.
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Most of the country estates were built by the landed gentry during the late 19th century.
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These are the people who make up the country, in his eyes, not the scheming gentry and generals who composed bourgeois nationalist parties.
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The gentry of a small country town could then afford to do with humble attainments in that line, and I am inclined to think the tradespeople were as a rule better informed.
Autobiography and Other Memorials of Mrs. Gilbert, Formerly Ann Taylor
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In some ways the gentry group was the motive power behind the establishment of Hua County.
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But it certainly suited the dominant landed gentry to interpret him in that way.
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Theoretically the number of baronets and knights can be established at different periods, but this is not the case with the third and fourth categories of gentry, esquires and gentlemen.
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That debate might have been economically suspect, but it further drove the idea that the American economy needed to be more efficient, which meant more tax cuts, more reductions in the safety net, more free agentry, more dependence on markets.
Robert Teitelman: A Few Lessons From the Crisis
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The source of ruling-class opposition was a distinct sector of the class, the landed gentry, and was perfectly rational in basis.
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The parade was crowded with nobility and gentry, and I had to pull past them in this ridiculous fashion.
Three Men in a Boat
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The same seems clearly true of the conception of pedigree that came to loom so large in the social thinking of the gentry of the late medieval and early modern ages.
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From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident.
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Payment was resisted in Yorkshire and Durham, and the Earl of Northumberland thereupon summoned the nobility and gentry of the North to meet him at York, and told them they must obey the King's demands.
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Historically, public service was the honourable vocation of the nobility and gentry, whose younger sons went into the army, the Church or the law.
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A number of these historians have remarked on the extent to which the very fluidity of the gentry's social composition promoted its obsession with form.
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From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident.
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Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
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Portraits of the aristocracy of the viceregal era include members of the clergy, the military and the landed gentry.
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Towering over the viewer, it is an imposing icon, with a size and status which at the time would have been customary for portraits of the aristocracy or gentry.
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As a result, many gentry and nobility families abandoned their country houses for large parts of the autumn and winter.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Dr. Gentry is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America.
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Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
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Opposite to exercise is idleness (the badge of gentry) or want of exercise, the bane of body and mind, the nurse of naughtiness, stepmother of discipline, the chief author of all mischief, one of the seven deadly sins, and a sole cause of this and many other maladies, the devil's cushion, as [1540] Gualter calls it, his pillow and chief reposal.
Anatomy of Melancholy
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As a result, a kind of semirural gentry grew up early in such places.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gentry said in an email to Delahanty last week that it cost about $182 to reunite Hensley with his family, which she called "priceless.
Proposal aimed at chronic panhandlers
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The code of gentility was far more pervasive and important than the influence of the group of self-styled gentry.
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And if I had been an impecunious younger son of the gentry, or a farmer struggling to survive an agricultural depression, or a soldier discharged from the army with little prospect of finding a good job, or a poorly paid artisan in a grimy and unsanitary city, I might well have decided to take the risk and opt for the bright, prosperous future and healthful climate that Poyais appeared to offer the adventurous.
A Talk with David Sinclair, author of The Land That Never Was
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The survival of the old elites extended to the gentry and petty nobility.
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They were quite distinct from the plushly carpeted front stairs, reserved for the gentry when accessing the living quarters and drawing rooms above.
What the Help Really Saw
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All this drew the nobility and gentry to the city.
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The city suffered economically from the dissolutions at the Reformation, but revived modestly through silk-weaving introduced by Walloon refugees, and later as a social centre for gentry and clergy.
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After 1603 he visited Scotland only once, in 1617, but he conciliated the gentry and, through the ‘Scottish Council’, got his way in Parliament.
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The fair days of the early years were occasions when only the gentry were in a position to buy and sell.
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Hundreds of thousands of people who would never consider themselves rich find they may be at risk from a tax they once associated with the landed gentry.
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Players were recruited from the area, fans lived in the shadow of the stadium and clubs were owned by local gentry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Suppress Voice of Dissent in Bengal Murders are common for CPM We killed less than a dozen village leaders or bad gentry or informers who incidentally were CPIM members or ‘Marxist’s sarkari men, and now Anil Biswas is trying to label us as annihilationist.
A Maoist critique of the CPI(Marxist)
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Over time the issue was complicated by the idea of the gentleman, a social construct which could incorporate all members of the peerage and gentry.
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(pray bear that in mind, gentle reader), gentry by birth, and incontestably so by my father's bearing the commission of good old George the Third, we were _not fine gentry_, but people who could put up with as much as any genteel Scotch family who find it convenient to live on a third floor in London, or on a sixth at Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest
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For the agricultural writer Arthur Young, yeomen were only freeholders who were not gentry, and the same definition was used by witnesses before the 1833 Select Committee on Agriculture.
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Provided that the barbarians remained amenable, any of these arrangements might suit the gentry better than direct imperial rule.
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By not including him on its "most wanted" list, RD is performing a similar press agentry service for Mr. Bush.
The Reader's Digest, "Dangerous Leaders," And The Little Man Who Wasn't There
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She also sympathetically records the sometimes conflicting desires of the participants, their fellow villagers and the local gentry.
The Times Literary Supplement
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You're the daughter of untitled gentry, holding little to no social status.
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They had been three times beaten back from the breached walls of Changsha by similar gentry-led local levies.
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Other members of the country gentry pursued foxes; he pursued churches.
Times, Sunday Times
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Staying here, it's easy to imagine that you have joined a private house party with the landed gentry.
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She also sympathetically records the sometimes conflicting desires of the participants, their fellow villagers and the local gentry.
The Times Literary Supplement
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In medieval tower houses and castles, the gentry and their servants often slept in the same room, separated only by curtains.
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His portraits already included classical allusions which gained him many patrons among the grand tourist gentry.
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I set as little by princes, lords, clergy, critics, etc., as, all these respective gentry do by my bardship.
The Letters of Robert Burns
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The sharp Bohemian, by playing at all trades, brushing against gentry of all sorts and scouring all neighborhoods, becomes at length a living cyclopaedia.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
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'Beruna!' he shouted, 'gibel a chiv for the gentry cove.' [
Venetia
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Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords.
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My point is simple: In the competitive world of dog-eat-dog (forgive the cliche) agentry, cyber trumps snail every day of the week and twice on Sunday (and Friday the 13th).
Why Exclusives Stink -more
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The 59-year-old, with the courtly manner of the southern black gentry, shrinks from criticizing others.
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The provincial gentry's disunity reduced their capacity to obstruct the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
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But the secret agentry has brought him to the attention of the wrong people.
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
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Dukes, duchesses, and barons made up the nobility, while the gentry consisted of knights and lords.
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It was an oval shape with cabriole legs and a folding arm, and it resembled a small version of the old hunting tables used by the gentry when they were served drinks after a fox hunt.
Deadly Intent
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Everyone in period costume - meet the Gentry; servants; soldiers; craftsmen.
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They had less involvement in the gentry-dominated magistracy, which completely controlled the county police until 1888.
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The movement was taken over by the notables - local gentry, clergy, and officials - as the only way to control it.
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Country people were more practical, but from the 17th century, cottagers as well as landed gentry took immense pride in their plants.
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An awful lot of landed gentry are going to end up in the docks for cultivation of a Class A drug on their land.
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George Washington was a scion and leader of Virginia's landed, slaveowning gentry.
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Scarce two gentlemen dwell together in the country, (if they be not near kin or linked in marriage) but there is emulation betwixt them and their servants, some quarrel or some grudge betwixt their wives or children, friends and followers, some contention about wealth, gentry, precedency, &c., by means of which, like the frog in
Anatomy of Melancholy
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On both sides of her family she could trace her ancestry back to Puritan settlers and landed gentry.
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Something else apparent is the multiple mythoi melting pot/crossover: from the sequences where Vampire Hunter D was visiting the surrealistic court of vampire servitors I now have a better idea of what Laurell Hamilton's eventual Anita Blake-meets-Meredith Gentry story is going to be like at least in part.
Dust&bleach, ozone, buffalo&garlic, chai, blood, and ginger
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The prestige of the gentry remained high, since they often owned the advowson and had a cousin or an uncle in the rectory as well.
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But throughout the early modern period, men from the labouring poor, and women of all ranks below the gentry, were illiterate.
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Since the province was a hotbed of gentry resistance to the emancipation, confrontation looked a real possibility.
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These well-to-do, often politically connected professionals—including the increasingly intertwined wealthy of Wall Street, Hollywood, and Silicon Valley—espoused what might be called gentry liberalism, a creed according to which the middle classes had to be punished for their racism, sexism, and excess consumption.
Who Lost the Middle Class?
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Authors of county histories devoted much space to pedigrees of families, since this would induce the gentry to subscribe to their volumes.
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The members of the new gentry used their commercial connections and strategic land holdings to engross trade.
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This was the countryside seen through the eyes of the landed gentry.
Times, Sunday Times
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Through the windows, he had seen sunlight streaking the Georgica Pond - the name a deliberate understatement typical of the local gentry, it being more the size of a lake - like pigment upon a painter's brush: there was a sense about the light of incipience, of colour that was not yet vivid, of an idea not yet formed.
Black Blade
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You get plumbers and electricians right through to landed gentry.
Times, Sunday Times
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The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers urinating against inn walls, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages.
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Landed income was the true measure of the gentry.
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These counterreforms included the establishment of land captains, gentry named by the minister of the interior to provide direct supervision of peasants (1889), and the creation of a distinct group for the gentry in the zemstvo system with increased representation (1890).
1881-87
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Neither working class nor gentry, the family was passably well to do, passably well educated, and, I suppose, somewhere in the lower middle of middle class.
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He was for the common people and against the corrupt and corrupting power of the gentry, nobility and royalty.
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While it can all seem a bit smug to some, it is a more democratic scene than in decades past, though a fascination with the gentry remains.
Times, Sunday Times
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Leland added: Since none the less the gentry of the vicinity were anything but affluent, the profits may have been largely illusory.
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For almost a century, in fact, the local gentry formed a united front against greedy royal appointees.
America Past and Present
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Carla Gentry of Styles Hair Salon in New York gave this look a twist with a layered bang and stacked layers at the base.
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The Glamorgan gentry patronized the boisterous village wakes, and even established new ones in communities which lacked them.
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Since the province was a hotbed of gentry resistance to the emancipation, confrontation looked a real possibility.
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For years, the landed gentry have striven to keep secret the payments they received from Europe.
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In the 18th century, when the gentry were yabbering away in the opera house stalls, it was hard enough to get their attention.
Times, Sunday Times
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PETER DEWAR, BURKE'S LANDED GENTRY: I think Princess Margaret will go down in the world history books as someone who is very glamorous, very edacious (ph), and indeed very hard working, especially in her earlier years, because she did undertake a great many Royal duties of one kind or another.
CNN Transcript Feb 11, 2002
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Better be the head of the yeomanry than the tail of the gentry.
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The sons of the nobility and gentry were counselled to "Consort yourself with gentlemen of your own rank and quality.
HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
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The dissolution of the monasteries strengthened the influence of the gentry and nobility and the shire became famous for its landed estates.
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But unlike the southerners, voters did not tend to defer in politics to the landed gentry.
The American Nation: A History of the United States to 1877
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The so - called golden - collar gentry are essentially nothing but brain - workers with high income.
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My grandmother was a nursemaid in high demand with the richest echelons of the London gentry.
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In the 1930s it was used as a hunting lodge and was visited by royalty and landed gentry during weekend retreats.
Times, Sunday Times
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The peasants'revolt disturbed the gentry's sweet dreams.
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The shelty had been recovered, and Sim to his pride found himself riding in the front with Wat and young Harden and others of the Scott and Elliot gentry.
The Moon Endureth: Tales and Fancies
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Still, that must be better than causing an uproar by taking the landed gentry by surprise?
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It has always seemed to us that some of these gentry were influenced by resentment because a humorist had dared to attempt novelism.
Twain, Mark: Selected Obituaries
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They came of gentry stock, and their father exhibited one of the occasional weaknesses of that origin - an incurable optimism in money matters which left him penniless.
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The hard favour'd authority that the workers have presumably seen in the faces of the landed gentry is absent here.
'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillies Poems (1790)
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Only two groups had ‘social’ status in seventeenth-century England - the gentry and the peerage.
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These sites were still towns, but very different from those of the 2nd century - no longer the local centres and garden-cities of a Romanising gentry, but heavily defended outposts of an embattled empire.
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In the 1930s it was used as a hunting lodge and was visited by royalty and landed gentry during weekend retreats.
Times, Sunday Times
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This step was taken much earlier in London, where the Philharmonic Society was founded by an élite of the aristocracy, gentry, City, and professions in 1813.
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The clerks, who prepared legal documents, registered deeds, and issued licences, were commoners who did not own property, hold degrees, or belong to the elite gentry families.
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Moreover, some of the riots were incited by local High Church clergy and gentry.
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Mainly, the landed gentry did not want a messy, noisy railway anywhere near them.
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Another is an idealization of the recusant gentry and their houses.
The Times Literary Supplement
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The so - called golden - collar gentry are essentially nothing but brain - workers with high income.
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The rumour that went round my school was that this achingly trendy troupe were actually landed gentry who didn't need the money.
Times, Sunday Times
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Gentry eventually became planning director and assistant to the city manager for special projects, before leaving city employment in 1987.
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Ye'll just mistryst aince and for a 'with the gentry in the bents.
David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
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He was wont to "burgle" the houses of the gentry round, and his favourite method of proceeding was to get on the roof and descend the chimneys, which in those days were wide.
Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
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On this question all social grades had taken the same line - the need to seize local gentry estates.
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There is, I think, no country side in Ireland where they will not tell you, if you can conquer their mistrust, of some man or woman or child who was lately or still is in the power of the gentry, or ‘the others’, or ‘the fairies’, or ‘the sidhe’, or the ‘forgetful people’, as they call the dead and the lesser gods of ancient times.
Later Articles and Reviews
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See to yon gentry cove," cried one of the band; "'tis the same we saw in the forenight crossing the ford above.
Godolphin, Complete
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She added that when Gentry refused to acknowledge the loan publicly, she resigned as his treasurer and broke off their engagement.
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Sir Francis's two surviving sons were both destined for active service rather than the leisurely life of gentry on a country estate.
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An exegetic argument about Bobbie Gentry's "Ode to Billy Joe" between Gerry, a gangster's moll and the chief drug dealer could have come out of Reservoir Dogs, or Tipperary Terriers as they might well call it out there.
The Guard – review
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The Methods: They employed were heavily biased in the gentry's favour.
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Godless by American standards, the soulless corporations and GOP agentry are the clear and present danger, while they ridiculously and bigotedly purport Islam as a threat to hide behind.
Stephen Herrington: There's No Difference Between Democrats and Republicans
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County government was in the hands of 3,000 or so prominent gentry in the early seventeenth century.
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The 59-year-old, with the courtly manner of the southern black gentry, shrinks from criticizing others.
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It initially attracted some gentry support; though when savage repression was applied to suppress it, proletarian anger was unleashed in a wave of incendiarism.
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The "mountainous flunkeydom" at Royal levées is a frequent incentive to ridicule with pen and pencil; Punch is happy in pillorying the Morning Post for the use (A the phrase, "the dense mass of the nobility and gentry" at one of Lady Derby's receptions; while he applauds the Queen for setting a good example by giving early juvenile parties in
Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857
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The most striking of these is the dominance of the landed orders, the nobility and those representatives of the nobilitas minor who were known as gentry in England and Wales or lairds in Scotland.
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The area became very popular with the landed gentry and a number of substantial houses were built, including Foots Cray Place, Sidcup Place and Lamorbey.
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The new men were not aping the landed gentry; they were basing their careers upon the infrastructure provided by urban Britain.
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the landed gentry
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A mere gentlewoman would be the wife or daughter of one of the gentry.
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In the 18th century, when the gentry were yabbering away in the opera house stalls, it was hard enough to get their attention.
Times, Sunday Times
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In Elizabethan times the roots were dried and crushed and the powder was mixed with water and used to stiffen the ruffs worn by the gentry.
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They were outnumbered hugely both by the gentry classes above them, and by the general peasantry below.
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V. ii.114 (330,6) the card or calendar of gentry] The general preceptor of elegance; the _card_ by which a gentleman is to direct his course; the _calendar_ by which he is to choose his time, that what he does may be both excellent and seasonable.
Notes to Shakespeare, Volume III: The Tragedies
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He has buried landed gentry as well as people whom he describes as being less well off.
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Not that the landed gentry would be caught dead with a Bristol glass full of backstreet gin on their persons.
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the grammar schools were assuredly not intended for the gentry alone
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The sons of the nobility and gentry were counselled to "Consort yourself with gentlemen of your own rank and quality.
HISTORY PLAY: The Lives and After-life of Christopher Marlowe
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And there were occasional cracks in gentry solidarity — especially when opportunity for preferment presented itself.
Gutenber-e Help Page
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The heritage publishing specialist is also changing the way it chooses entries to reflect that the celebrities are now more likely to be role models than the landed gentry.
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He disbelieves the commons who testified that the gentry willingly took command, shared their grievances, and led them on.
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In my father's day the great gentry sold wine by the barrel only; but now they have leave to cry it, and sell it by the galopin, in the very market-place.
The Cloister and the Hearth
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These jumped-up City Aldermen had strange new ways, and odd formalities like gentry through the front door, servants through the back.
THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
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His father was a wealth sugar planter and his mother came from the Cuban landed gentry.
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The landed gentry had some sympathy with popular resentment of the activities of moneyed and mercantile entrepreneurs.
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In the past, the country manor house welcomed gentry for deer hunting.
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For recreation he played the violin, read widely, painted, dined with the local gentry, and, it seems, indulged his considerable interest in women.
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The spirit of Agrarianism reduced the nobility and gentry of France to a social level with the miserable "sans-culottes" of Paris, and the vile "canaille" which seems to raise itself from the midst of civil disturbances with the same ease and as naturally, as all the living engines of corruption burst into activity on the decay of the human body.
N. Carolina University Magazine
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“We were simply bowled over by Madame, who was way ahead of her press agentry,” said David O. Selznick, adding that he was disappointed that people did not seem to have paid enough attention to the “symphonic narrative” and “march” created for the occasion—compositions he called “the first important serious music to come out of the war.”
The Last Empress
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Gentry treasure (SAAB) is a special development formerly strategical the factory of the plane, produce opportunity for combat for Swedish air force since 1937.
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The ravelled is a kind of cheat bread also, but it retaineth more of the gross, and less of the pure substance of the wheat; and this, being more slightly wrought up, is used in the halls of the nobility and gentry only, whereas the other either is or should be baked in cities and good towns of an appointed size (according to such price as the corn doth bear), and by a statute provided by King John in that behalf.
Of the Food and Diet of the English. Chapter VI. [1577, Book III., Chapter 1; 1587, Book II., Chapter 6
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In a rush, she said, "My mother was a member of the minor gentry, a parson 's daughter who worked in a great house as the governess.
MY FAVORITE BRIDE
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There were twenty-one knights, but these too were more often lawyers, merchants and colonial administrators rather than landed gentry.
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She added that when Gentry refused to acknowledge the loan publicly, she resigned as his treasurer and broke off their engagement.
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In the beginning they came from the leisured class of doctors, clergymen, and the landed gentry.
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Yet some men _had_ "chaffed" him, and found out to their cost that they had picked upon the wrong sort of man; for if he was slow with his tongue he was quick with his hands, and knew how to use them in a manner which had given intense pleasure to numerous gentry who, in South Sea ports, delight to witness a "mill" in default of being able to take part in it themselves.
Tessa 1901
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In fine, The Gentry are very Rich, live of all Men the most careless and contented Lives, keeping the Poor as Drudges and Slaves for them; and as it is said of the Tyrant _Polycrates_, _Have nothing to trouble them, but that they are troubled with nothing_.
The School of Recreation (1684 edition) Or, The Gentlemans Tutor, to those Most Ingenious Exercises of Hunting, Racing, Hawking, Riding, Cock-fighting, Fowling, Fishing
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Worn down with oppression, the French peasants broke into a rebellion known as the Jacquerie, from the nickname of Jacques-Bonhomme, which the gentry gave to them.
A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII
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Things go south, however, once the chevalier meets the noble gentry and gets down to the business of solving the mystery.
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Death duties probably appeal to old Labourites as a way to punish the landed gentry.
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She added that when Gentry refused to acknowledge the loan publicly, she resigned as his treasurer and broke off their engagement.
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Plowden, the Roman Catholic historian, says: "A very great preponderancy in favour of the Union existed in the Catholic body, particularly in their nobility, gentry and clergy.
Is Ulster Right?
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And I hae as little doubt that the poor deevil Morris, whom he could gar believe onything, was egged on by him, and some of the Lowland gentry, to trepan me in the gate he tried to do.
Rob Roy
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She expressed bewilderment about her ill-treatment, stressing the country loyalties that bound the gentry together.
The English Civil War: A People's History
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From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident.
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Gentry sent to market will not buy one bushel of corn.
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So this reform of death tax will benefit a much wider group than the landed gentry who used to worry about IHT.
Times, Sunday Times
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Landed income was the true measure of the gentry.
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The gentry gritted their teeth and stoically endured the offense, hands hovering over their cell phones ready to summon the gendarmes should the intruder decide to prolong his incursion long enough to constitute a public nuisance.
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(pray bear that in mind, gentle reader), gentry by birth, and incontestably so by my father's bearing the commission of good old George the Third, we were not _fine gentry_, but people who could put up with as much as any genteel Scotch family who find it convenient to live on a third floor in London, or on a sixth at Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2)
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There are even cellars, stables and a coach house, a hint to its previous life as a home for landed gentry, before the property was surrounded by a modern housing estate.
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In the 1930s it was used as a hunting lodge and was visited by royalty and landed gentry during weekend retreats.
Times, Sunday Times
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My father wanted him to stay at Ringwood and learn to be what he called a committed member of the landed gentry.
Slightly Married
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Another is an idealization of the recusant gentry and their houses.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Lord's annals bear witness to the first Gentlemen v Players encounter at Eton in 1806, when amateur gentry from schools and universities took on semi-professional cricketers in a match which emerged as a highlight of the calendar.
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The clerks, who prepared legal documents, registered deeds, and issued licences, were commoners who did not own property, hold degrees, or belong to the elite gentry families.
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Godless by American standards, the soulless corporations and GOP agentry are the clear and present danger, while they ridiculously and bigotedly purport Islam as a threat to hide behind.
Stephen Herrington: There's No Difference Between Democrats and Republicans
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The streets teem with hustling, bustling humanity, hag-like beggar women, street urchins and drunken revellers urinating against inn walls, all rubbing shoulders with the gentry in their smart clothes and carriages.
