Sentence examples for which gentleman from inspiring English sources

This was a world in which gentleman amateurs could indulge what Hume described as "the effeminate part of mee" (his love of music) through dances and laments for two or three viols.

When we meet Bertie, he is impersonating a gentleman's gentleman while Jeeves – enjoying his tenancy of Bertie's best dressing gown – is impersonating that gentleman's gentleman's gentleman (which gentleman, to confuse things further, is not B Wooster).

They were the apogee of a long phase during which Gentleman not only kept step with an optimistic consensus rhetoric about Britain, invoking its rich past together with its progressive future: he supplied that consensus with a face.

During a private tour of the Palais Garnier, home to the Paris Opera Ballet, the troupe's star dancer, Germain Louvet, showed them spaces normally inaccessible to the public: a fake ceiling behind which gentleman from high society once chose dancers with whom to consort, and in the basement, a tank full of water intended in the 19th century to douse fires, but now full of koi fish.

I think I helped bring a little joy into their lives just by being there". So, which gentleman host would you most like to cruise with?

Gentlemen and Skip Away had met once previously, in last year's Pimlico Special, in which Gentlemen beat Skip Away by a half-length.

Tom Sachs has constructed a box based on those in which gentlemen once kept their dueling pistols, but the pistol inside is handmade.

Ryczek has observed that the Mansfields of today "unintentionally emulate" the history of the game, in which "gentlemen" who united to play in "the spirit of good fellowship" were gradually "pushed out by younger, more skilled players".

I should not have risen on this paragraph, had it not been for some arguments which gentlemen have advanced respecting elections, and which, I think, tend to make dangerous impressions on the minds of the rising generation.

If they were fixed in the Constitution, they might become extremely inadequate, and produce the very evil which gentlemen seem to fear; for then a man of the highest merit could not act unless he were wealthy.

If they were to be a distinct body, then the doctrine of precaution, which gentlemen use, would be necessary; but, sir, they can make no laws, nor levy any taxes, but those to which they themselves must be subservient; they themselves must bear a part; therefore our security is guarantied by their being thus subject to the laws, if by nothing else.