Sentence examples for To gentlemen from inspiring English sources

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To gentlemen

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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.

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"Where are we off to, gentlemen?" Bocartes ventured.

The game belonged to gentlemen and players; sponsorship and long-term contracts were unheard of; the pay was poor.

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".

In the Victorian era, the word "bull" was considered too strong for mixed company; instead, one referred to "gentlemen cows".

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The ceilings are high to permit gentlemen to enter without removing their top hats.

The device remained a curio, confined to gentleman's laboratories and scientific showrooms.

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.

I was single and wanted to talk to other gentlemen".

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