Without warning, a gentleman on TV starts cutting through a tin can--with a kitchen knife!
The Toast's Mallory Ortberg and Nicole Cliffe compare him to Falstaff—"A knave without malice, a liar without deceit, and a knight, a gentleman, and a soldier without either dignity, decency, or honor"—and they are as right about this as it is possible to be.
The Toast's Mallory Ortberg and Nicole Cliffe compare him to Falstaff—"A knave without malice, a liar without deceit, and a knight, a gentleman, and a soldier without either dignity, decency, or honour"—and they are as right about this as it is possible to be.
He lived as a gentleman, without fear, and with a twinkle in his eye.
I've seen my boy, and he can be a gentleman without me".
Mel was always a gentleman without ceasing to be a gentle man, one whose kindness will be fondly remembered.
Dancing Dancing is an occasion for a Lady to endear herself to a Gentleman without having to endure the vexing gaze of a Chaperone.
Nathaniel is aghast when he learns that Lucidus has taken an insult from a gentleman without retaliating by offering a formal challenge to duel.
Anne Mills, Tonbridge, Kent In John Aubrey: My Own Life (Chatto & Windus), Ruth Scurr beautifully recreates from notes, fragments, drawings and contemporary reports the diary of a gentleman without large family means, between the English civil war and the reign of William and Mary – a time of scientific and archaeological discovery, and historical revolution.
According to George Grossmith, Gilbert "was to those who knew him a courteous and amiable gentleman – a gentleman without veneer".
