Sentence examples for gentlemanlike from inspiring English sources

Eventually, Lizzy teaches him more "gentlemanlike" manners and they marry in a double wedding with Darcy's friend Bingley and Lizzy's sister Jane, whom Darcy had initially striven to keep asunder.

At nine the following night they were led through a suite of rooms in the citadel to a garden overlooking the sea, "where we were most courteously received by Buonaparte … he kept us in conversation about an hour, speaking generally upon indifferent subjects but with a gaiety and gentlemanlike manner which quite astonished me as we were all in uniform".

Unknown to his English visitor, whose account of the "gaiety and gentlemanlike" meeting goes on display for the first time on Thursday, he was planning the escape which would lead to his last stand at Waterloo a year later.

The "intelligent, gentlemanlike" practitioner is a kind of therapist, whose business is humouring his clucking patients.

"Yakuza gangs are amazingly gentlemanlike," he said, citing the traditional respect for seniority that binds gangs together.

Let's hope that the decision by Philippe de Montebello, the director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, to return the Euphronios krater to Italy will set an example to be followed by the British Museum's directors, whose stubborn and not gentlemanlike behavior concerning the fate of the Parthenon (not the Elgin) marbles has reached the point of ridicule.

Not much is known about the actual Austen-Lefroy relationship except that they met at a ball in 1795 around the time she had begun an early novel that was later reworked as "Sense and Sensibility" and that she described him in a letter to her sister, Cassandra Anna Maxwell Martinn), as "a very gentlemanlike, good-looking, pleasant young man".