Sentence examples for gentlemen of old from inspiring English sources

Slightly mad gentlemen of old school has traffic complex.

In this way, Pokémon Go may well usher in a new era of Pokémon trainers who are keen to recount the time when, disdaining to purchase PokéCoins to move the game along, they – like the Yorkshire gentlemen of old – had to walk uphill barefoot in the snow just to find a Clefairy.

The amateur gentlemen of old London may have been swept aside by the professionals of Wall Street, but the takeover merely created another elite, another set of winners ready to make the system work for them.

The New Yorker, June 12 , 1926 P. 7Gentleman of old N.Y.

She was introduced into court society and the précieux world of the Hôtel de Rambouillet in Paris after her marriage in 1644 to Henri de Sévigné, a Breton gentleman of old nobility who squandered most of her money before being killed in a duel in 1651.

Gentleman of the old school salutes old lady who changed her course on Fifth Avenue to pat the head of a peddler's horse.

By George S. Chappell The New Yorker, July 21 , 1928P. 9 Gentleman of the old school salutes old lady who changed her course on Fifth Avenue to pat the head of a peddler's horse.

He was famously generous and collegial, even to young scholars, a tall, impeccably dressed man of courtly mien and old-fashioned manners tending his beloved orchids at home in Durham, N.C., like a Southern gentleman of the old school who happened to be black.

Tibor was a true gentleman of the old school whose tact, courtesy and sense of humour were widely appreciated.

He was a European gentleman of the old school and a man of many talents, from horsemanship to international business.

A no-nonsense kind of a guy, Mr. Dreier is also a gentleman of the old school.