The book's success set Gentleman's career on its track.
The colt is set to confront Gentlemen today in the $1 million Hollywood Gold Cup in California.
You two gentlemen set the bar for debate with civility toward one another.
In a corner, an unusually precise dress code was set out: for gentlemen, black tie and a black mask; for ladies, a black or white dress, white mask and fan.
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, set in a universe where all fictional characters co-exist, teams Shakespeare's Prospero with Woolf's Orlando, and Lemuel Gulliver with his contemporaries Natty Bumppo and Fanny Hill.
The latter was so keen on De Rome's film-making that he wrote a short script which would have been set in a gentlemen's outfitters, but was never made.
Though ostensibly unconnected to ABC's other books, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen set the tone for the rest of the line: Moore drew on heroic archetypes for his models, basing the new characters on pulp adventures, classical literature, and even mythology.
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At this, an elderly gentleman, set down his coffee cup and peered up from the financial page of the times.
Of a certain general, Hawthorne observes, "He is a small, thin old gentleman, set off by a large pair of brilliant epaulets".
