Sentence examples for To gentleman from inspiring English sources
noun
A man of gentle but not noble birth, particularly a man of means (originally ownership of property) who does not work for a living but has no official status in a peerage; an armiferous man ranking below a knight.
- Being a gentleman, Robert was entitled to shove other commoners into the gongpit but he still had to jump out of the way of the knights to avoid the same fate himself.
Small boys would catch rarities and sell them to gentleman collectors for princely sums.
The build-up to "Gentleman" has distracted Koreans from the sabre-rattling by Kim Jong-unn across the border.
After 40 minutes without a single interested customer, and clearly frustrated, Gentleman No. 1 said to Gentleman No. 2, "Now I see why Dylan dumped her!" But, as evidenced later that night, it seems she is doing just fine without him!
He plays Howard Marks, the Oxford-educated Welshman who, chaotically and bizarrely, stumbled into the game of importing hashish from Pakistan to the UK in the early 70s, back in the days when this lucrative and unexplored market was still open to gentleman amateurs.
Listen to Gentleman here The odds are stacked against an artist hoping to achieve success in pop, but if success does come, then building it into a lengthy career rests on recreating the series of happy accidents, coincidences and right-tune-right-time-right factors that secured the initial burst of interest.
The device remained a curio, confined to gentleman's laboratories and scientific showrooms.
"Where are we off to, gentlemen?" Bocartes ventured.
He sets to elaborating on Gilbert White's suggestion to gentlemen of fortune in his book "Natural History of Selborne".
Madonna tried it for years and her "Material Girl" video is an outright homage to Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.
Edmund Burke, philosopher (1729 97), Two Letters to Gentlemen of Bristol (1778)"Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them".
The game belonged to gentlemen and players; sponsorship and long-term contracts were unheard of; the pay was poor.
