A Virginia-born gentleman with chiseled features and a mostly granite acting style, Scott had grown old and overfamiliar in a decade's worth of formula westerns.
The Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky pictured a memorable and modern version of the devil as the high-born gentleman, fallen on hard times, who appears to Ivan in The Brothers Karamazov.
During the 1840 Presidential campaign, he had stumped across Illinois for William Henry Harrison, a Virginia-born gentleman and military hero whom the Whigs, with stunning disingenuousness, were marketing as a folksy man of the people who would be at home in a log cabin drinking hard cider.
Sooner rather than later, the native-born gentlemen of local society started playing that crazy English game.
Though born a Southern gentleman, Butler is alienated from his family and consorts with Northerners during the American Civil War.
ABRAHAM--Gerrard S. A patrician gentleman, born in Peitz, Germany, died on Saturday, June 4th, 2011 at age 90.
And character is very much at the core of these whodunits, which are seen from the perspective of an educated gentleman born to wealth and power.
I like her immediately, but then, I am a right and proper Victorian gentleman, born and bred in Victoria, that lovely Australian garden state named after the good Queen in 1850.
On the main stage, Beck looks a little bewildered, as a gentleman born, raised and still resident in the sun-kissed loveliness of California is perhaps wont to be when confronted with the sight of what is officially muddiest Glastonbury ever.
The house Jerry was born in was a gentleman's house that Carey had moved piece by piece from Rivermont, the wealthy section of town.
George Pendleton, in full George Hunt Pendleton, byname Gentleman George (born July 29 , 1825 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. died November 24 , 1889 Brussels, Belgium) American lawyer and legislator, an advocate of civil service reform and sponsor of the Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883), which created the modern civil service system.
