Sentence examples for Italian gentlemen from inspiring English sources

On the ride she was accompanied by Mrs. Natalia Murray and a couple of Italian gentlemen.

The business recalls the obeisance to certain Italian gentlemen once required of American presidential candidates.

Aside from a few distinguished Italian gentlemen and a young couple playing with their Labrador, the streets were nearly deserted on a recent weekend.

Some Italian gentlemen, apparently, became so fixated on the rules — splitting hairs over some minor point of honor and writing to one another about it — that they never got around to the duel itself.

Two Italian gentlemen fell out over the respective merits of Tasso and Ariosto, an argument that ended when one combatant, mortally wounded, admitted that he had not read the poet he was championing.

Some Italian gentlemen, apparently, became so fixated on the rules splitting hairs over some minor point of honor and writing to one another about it that they never got around to the duel itself.

KNIFE SKILLS Like any self-respecting Italian gentleman, Della Valle sets a high premium on masculine connoisseurship.

One, "Summertime" (1955), finds Katharine Hepburn in Venice, enjoying a bittersweet vacation fling with a married Italian gentleman.

Hang on, an ageing Italian gentleman with a predilection for hair dye, plastic surgery and glamorous youths?

Journal of Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world in 1522, written by Antonio Pigafetta, Italian gentleman from Vincenza who survived the trip.

And though Roosevelt was from the outset an opponent of Hitler – he had spent some months in Germany in his boyhood and formed an abiding dislike of German militarism – he showed a weakness for Mussolini, "the admirable Italian gentleman".