Sentence examples for was gentleman from inspiring English sources

His most famous book owes a debt to a real-life Edinburgh character, William Brodie, who was gentleman by day and miscreant by night.

But the word most often applied to him as tributes were paid on Sunday was "gentleman" and, by common consent, he never met the outside world with anything less than civility, in times of famine or feast.

He also notes that he was "intrigued" that Robert Louis Stevenson set his novel in London when it "remains a very Scottish novel, based as it is (at least partially) on the real-life Edinburgh character Deacon William Brodie, who was gentleman by day, criminal by night".

Another friend, the Deputy Speaker of the Commons Lindsay Hoyle said: "He was Gentleman Jim.

Steel cut oats are gentleman's oats.

"There are gentlemen's clubs.

"We were gentlemen, not hucksters".

The men are gentlemen.

But they were gentlemen".

The guys are gentlemen.

"These were gentlemen's hotels.