Sentence examples for a dashing gentleman from inspiring English sources

Born in 1883, O'Brien made his name as a dashing gentleman jockey in the late 1900s.

One photograph of a dashing gentleman apparently paying court to an enamored woman in a garden ("Cupid at Work," 1886) actually does look a bit lifelike, even, in this context, uncharacteristically human.

A lifted flap reveals a far more scandalous scene; instead of a chaperone, the lady is accompanied by a dashing gentleman who appears to be feeling her up. .

We love the excitement of a good polo match, but having a dashing gentleman riding the horse just takes the game to new heights.

Shapiro, 37, says "unREAL"  isn't based on "The Bachelor" per se, but let's read between the lines: The program Rachel works on is about a dashing gentleman who lives in a mansion and courts dozens of attractive women.

Her first major published work was Whose Body? (1923), a detective novel in which Lord Peter first appeared as a dashing gentleman-scholar.

When he painted himself as a dashing gentleman-artist apparently in the prime of life, he had about a year to live – he died in 1641 in England in his early 40s.

For example, Emily Dickinson frequently uses personification in her poems, as in this poem about a snake: "A narrow fellow in the grass / occasionally rides; / You may have met him, -- did you not, / His notice sudden is".[6] Here, the snake is a "narrow fellow" who "rides" in the grass, which makes it seem almost like a dashing Victorian gentleman, rather than a reptile.

"You are far too trusting and too independent of convention for your own good," scolds her mother, with whom Jane is living in the port city of Southampton when Lord Harold Trowbridge, the dashing "Gentleman Rogue" she much admires, enlists her to spy on a seductive and possibly treasonous beauty who may have engineered the destruction of a Royal Navy vessel.

The name of the dashing gentleman with whom she was spending her afternoons?

The "Rite of Summer" arts festival, at Governors Island, presents the dashing gentlemen of the New York-based JACK Quartet, who will perform pieces both medieval (by Guillaume de Machaut) and modern (by Ives, Ken Thomson, and others) in a relaxed outdoor setting.