Sentence examples for only gentlemen from inspiring English sources

Brooks's accepts only gentlemen "of the highest social order" and Snell adds: "I think it would be a prerequisite that [James] can play bridge.

At the time, the wristwatch was for ladies only; gentlemen wore pocket watches gold, respectably massive, with chain and fob, period.

He was the only gentlemen wearing studs on his shirt, which gave him a good vertical line.

Amanda's level of self-deceit escalates, but her hopes for Laura's first and only gentleman caller are born of sad desperation, not real belief.

With a Jewish prime minister, Benjamin Disraeli, in power, Irving decided to make his interpretation even more politically relevant; he saw Shylock as "the type of a persecuted race; almost the only gentleman in the play, and the most ill-used".

"Obviously he was the only gentleman who has been proven to have been wrongly convicted, get out of prison and then be charged with a serious crime like homicide.

"After landing in Newark, we easily located Captain Ledford, our escort (he proved to be the only gentleman standing at attention dressed in olive drab with blindingly bright medals and shoes).

Now, this once male-only "gentlemen's prestige bar" refers to itself as the "presidential choice".

For law firms that do decide to go public, success will depend on their managers' ability to run them as public companies, rather than members-only gentlemen's clubs.

And yes, the only true gentlemen are always the losers.

And the gardens and palace of Versailles were always intended to be freely accessible to all the sovereign's subjects, on condition only that gentlemen wore their swords.