Sentence examples for gentlemen lay from inspiring English sources

Groups consisting of all "gentlemen" lay more than twice the number of eggs as those consisting of all "rapists".

"There's a gentleman lying by her side," Dr. Malhotra said in a surprised tone.

I witnessed the gentleman lying on the ground from my view from my desk.

"There were no flashing blue lights and no speeding because I had the gentleman lying on the floor - I had to take my time to keep him comfortable". An EMAS statement said: "The patient's condition was assessed as not life-threatening and the call was categorised as requiring a response within 30 minutes.

"Gentlemen, there lies the Emerald City," he would say.

And Mr. Schlesinger, who would have turned 90 on Oct. 15, was still throwing off sparks when, in 1998 during a preliminary hearing on the prospect of a Clinton impeachment, he told a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee that "Gentlemen always lie about their sex lives".

While diplomats share a vocabulary of charm, seduction and hypocrisy with spies -- in an earlier novel, the author described diplomats as gentlemen who lie for their country -- Mr. le Carre does not seem as familiar with their work as that of their undercover brethren, and as a result, the Foreign Office characters in this book all verge on stereotypes.

And the last land he found, it was fair and level ground,/ About a carven stone/ And a stark sword brooding on the bosom of the Cross, /Where high and low are one,/ And there was grass and the living trees,/ And the flowers of the spring,/ And there lay gentlemen from out of all the seas/ That ever called him King.

He was a liar, a thief and a con man — all admirable qualities for C.I.A. officers who served overseas during the cold war, aspiring to the British definition of a diplomat: a gentleman who lies for his country abroad.

In the junk yard, his nest, his paper-lined oubliette, Gregory kicked off hi gentleman's slippers, lay down on the bed, and predicted the future.

As a boy in Alabama, Wilson recalls, he too "answered the altar call," and though today a "secular humanist" he proposes to the pastor that as gentlemen and Southerners they lay aside principled disagreements about evolution and intelligent design.