Sentence examples for noble gentleman from inspiring English sources
The main thing required of a noble gentleman was a sense of style.
By Ian Buruma The main thing required of a noble gentleman in Heian Japan was a sense of style.
A purely noble gentleman, he is pushed on by the greed of his second wife, a spiritual foreigner from Kentucky who demands that he build her a vast plantation house.
Even in the face of seemingly external tactics to malign this noble gentleman as a self-proclaimed revolutionary, he did well and served his people.
He got tons and tons of value and more importantly, earned a reputation of being a noble gentleman.
They portray him as a noble gentleman who became a pirate out of necessity; as a generous man, claiming that on one occasion he went as far as saving the life of a baby in a confrontation and providing money for his upbringing and as a brave man, showing disregard for his life on several occasions.
Indeed, "The Tale of Genji" — now available in a new translation by Dennis Washburn (Norton) — makes clear that the noble gentlemen and ladies in the Heian period (794-1185) were often remarkably promiscuous.
Despite the serious intent of the yomihon, they were romances rather than novels, and their characters, highly schematized, include witches and fairy princesses as well as impeccably noble gentlemen.
The fiery flamenco guitar flourishes and percussive rhythms of Mitch Leigh's sinuous, rousing music tingle in the ear while before one's eyes, Miguel de Cervantes, the 16th-century Spanish man of letters, dons the silvery mane and drooping mustache of his enduring fictional creation, a daft but utterly noble old gentleman who blazes into musical life with the show's first song.
She was accompanied by her half-sister Elizabeth, and a procession of over 800 nobles and gentlemen.
Northumberland was obliged to relinquish control of a nervous Council in London and launch an unplanned pursuit of Mary into East Anglia, from where news was arriving of her growing support, which included a number of nobles and gentlemen and "innumerable companies of the common people".
