Sentence examples for it gentleman from inspiring English sources
As the poet Samuel Butler put it, "gentleman, mechanic, lord, and scoundrel mix, and are all of a piece".
—Pride and Prejudice (1813) The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid".
If I could give it a name, I'd call it gentleman's ASMR, or ASMR for gentlemen".
"Face it, gentlemen," he said.
"Stick to it gentlemen," said Henry Wood to his (then all-male) players as they struggled with Schoenberg a century ago.
As Bush family icon Henry Stimson, F.D.R.'s secretary of war, put it, "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail".
When we finished, I said: 'That's it gentlemen, I done.' It was really kind of pathetic, their attitude to me".
"Well, that looks a lot better, doesn't it, gentlemen?" she says.
Ladies and gentlemen play polo, but you can't call it a gentleman's sport.
After all, doctors were gentlemen and as Charles Meigs, another obstetrician, put it, "a gentleman's hands are clean".
"I didn't not like it," her gentleman friend chimed in.
