Sentence examples for among gentlemen from inspiring English sources

This was not the way business was done, he thought — not in France, and certainly not among gentlemen.

Fowler and Pyle's friendship, which rests on quaint notions of gallantry and honor among gentlemen, is also a metaphor for competing styles of imperialism, one wearily resigned, the other aggressively intrusive.

"He does not put on his gentility among gentlemen and gentlewomen only to turn ruffian among ruffians and among those of the other sex who from any cause are not recognized as ladies.

Tonight the Center for Contemporary Opera, which does such essential work, will give local audiences one more chance to attend the first fully staged New York production of one of Mr. Floyd's lesser-known works, "Markheim," set in London on Christmas Eve in 1880 and based on a Robert Louis Stevenson story of gambling, deception and murder among gentlemen.

It was stuck down, and for a moment he felt a flash of irritation at the prats who ran the bank, the kind of people who didn't know the convention about hand-delivered letters, that they were never stuck down, on the basis that it was an implied insult to third parties handling the letter; the convention was that among gentlemen you could rest assured that private correspondence would go unread.

Their sissy unconditional love and affection for all living creatures has no place among gentlemen.

In "The Honor Code," we accompany Detective Appiah as he tries to figure out who killed three morally repugnant practices: dueling among British gentlemen, foot-binding among the Chinese elite and slavery in the British Empire.

Set-piece meetings among robed gentlemen (and a few long-suffering ladies) won't by themselves solve the world's problems, or even the world's inter-religious strains.

Two months after the Anti-Masons met, the National Republican Party held a Convention of its own, in which it called on the states not in alphabetical order but in "geographical order," beginning with Maine, and working down the coast, causing no small amount of consternation among the gentlemen from Alabama.

He was prone to flirtation with, among other gentlemen, a college warden with an eye for pretty boys, who would invite him to the more exclusive Oxford high tables.1.1

Among the gentleman scholars, working for pay "was far too grubby a notion".