Sentence examples for suitable gentleman from inspiring English sources

But this is also a woman of immense vitality who, believing that Tom has at last found a suitable gentleman caller for his sister, slaps her right fist into her left palm with gusto.

He said he expected the governments to "find a suitable gentleman's agreement" over the compensation bill, adding: "What is important that it is a long-term relationship and what happened before the state reaction is absolutely clear.

"He said it was scarcely suitable for a gentleman let alone ladies".

Suitable for any gentleman's library, the Freshfords mahogany library chair is a conversation piece, as is its $40,000 price tag.

In a swelter of mounting panic, Hensher applied for job after job - in advertising, business consultancy, whatever looked halfway posh and suitable for a gentleman of fine sensibility - and found himself contemplating suicide as a sensible career move.

The church was demolished, save for the south wall which bounded the cloister, and the rest of the abbey converted into a mansion suitable for a gentleman.

He was educated at the Colegio de San Hermenegildo Jesuit college in Seville up to the age of 15, when his parents decided that he would become an officer in the Spanish Army, which their families considered a career suitable for a gentleman.

One thing that may have been holding dramatists back from respectability was that plays were not published in a form suitable for a "gentleman's library", as, at the time, they were generally cheaply and unattractively published for the use of actors rather than the home reader.

After a week with student friends at Barmouth, Darwin returned home on 29 August to find a letter from Henslow proposing him as a suitable (if unfinished) gentleman naturalist for a self-funded supernumerary place on with captain Robert FitzRoy, more as a companion than a mere collector.

In the 1930s its owner was persuaded that motor sport was a suitable interest for a gentleman and arranged for a racing circuit, two miles long, to be built in the grounds.

Gibbon described as epiphany what was in fact probably the culmination of a long deliberation on a suitable master narrative for an enlightened English gentleman.