Sentence examples for a gentleman only from inspiring English sources

Shortly thereafter he leaves to make his mysterious fortune and be transformed into a gentleman, only to find on his return that Cathy has married Edgar Linton.

When a family and children's theater presents a play based on Dickens's novel "Great Expectations" — the tale of Pip, a poor, uneducated orphan who grows up, with the help of a secret benefactor, to be a gentleman, only to realize guiltily that he has become a snob — the hope is that the mystery, passion and excitement of the book will translate into the 80 minutes allotted (no intermission).

He calls Giovanni a gentleman, but realizes eventually that he's a gentleman in name only".

Dazed from the fumes, I walked smack into an older gentleman only to realise it was, in fact, Bill Murray.

For the author of The Poor Man and the Lady the idea of God as a gentleman can only be a bitter joke.

The firm tone along the lines of 'Please, madam, move away from the bar,' turned to a stern grab of my elbow and being led out with the words: 'Madam, this is a gentleman's-only bar.' Of course this was nothing to match Ms McGowan's treatment, but it still stings.

The character was modelled on George Cecil Ives, a Cambridge-educated criminologist and talented cricketer who, like Raffles, was a resident of the Albany, a gentlemen's only residence in Mayfair.

She showed me many splendid buttons - and one from a man's fly, inscribed 'Gentlemen Only.' A useful and inexpensive book is "Buttons" by Diana Epstein, published by Studio Vista.

The locker-room quip for which "golf" is an acronym ― "gentlemen only, ladies forbidden" ― may no longer be totally accurate but it certainly captures the sensibility of the game.

Lee Heffernan, who wrote a book on Augusta National, "Gentlemen Only," with her mother, Robbie Williams, said the committee asked Roberts for advice on ways to improve attendance.

Zeitoun remembered Gadahn as "a gentleman" and the only convert in the group.