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... so long, now that the Knight had again taken his wonted place amongst the gentry of the county. Entertain- ments were exchanged with his neighbours, ...

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...schools were then held beneath the dignity of both the nobility and higher gentry. “I may, however, send him to study at Cambridge under some trusty p... ... not only was he in fear of an attack on the house from the Roman Catholic gentry in the neighbourhood, which was to take place as soon as Parma’s shi... ...ady, deaf, and extremely fat and heavy, one of the old uncultivated rustic gentry who had lagged far be- hind the general civilisation of the country,... ...ory gland, at the utmost peril of their lives, to keep up the faith of the gentry, and in many cases to intrigue for Queen Mary. Among these plotters ...

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...are, as a class, class-conscious in the British community are the Anglican gentry and their fringe of the genteel. Every- body else is “respectable.” ...

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... good reputation as any on the road, and though I say it, is frequented by gentry of the best quality, both Irish and English. I defy anybody to say b... ...oon have burnt my fingers as have affronted your ladyship; but truly where gentry come and spend their money, I am not willing that they should be sca... ... own sex; for surely he had no strict title to be preferred to the English gentry; nor did they seem inclined to show him any extraordinary favour. Th... ...discoun tenance all walking afoot by their betters. Luckily, however, the gentry who attend at the Opera house were too busy to quit their stations, ...

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...erstood that it is not I but my grand-uncle Nicholas, of the Polish landed gentry, Chevalier de la Legion d’Honneur, &c. &c., who, in his young days, ...

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...we want to help France in getting back her money from the pockets of those gentry. Hey! hey! my dear little devil’s duck! it isn’t a bad plan. The wor...

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...eers as a class. They are such. They are as distinct from the slaveholding gentry of the south, as are the fishwomen of Paris, and the coal-heavers of... ... house-servants, cooks, and stewards, common laborers, and flunkeys to our gentry, and, for aught I see, they adjust themselves to their stations with...

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...nt Jewess, both of surpassing beauty, and much coveted by the nobility and gentry of these kingdoms. Long before these elegant extracts from the biogr... ...Dodson, ‘I dare say you have been annoyed in the Fleet; there are some odd gentry there. Whereabouts were your apartments, Mr. Pickwick?’ ‘My one room...

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...aspired to a Packard twin-six and an estab- lished position in the motored gentry. The favor which Babbitt had won from his family by speaking of a ne... ...vowed socialists but a lot of cowards who work under cover—the long-haired gentry who call themselves “liberals” and “radicals” and “non-partisan” and...

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... be like the mob of Baltimore I cannot tell; but I have no doubt as to the gentry of Charleston and the gentry of Baltimore being in accord on the sub...

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...dhead mind, his castle had been used as a place of security by many of the gentry of the Parliamentary party while the Royal forces were near, and the... ... our French notions as to nobility and rank, and how we treated all honest gentry without titles like the dirt under our feet, she thought we ought to...

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...men and girls make capital servants; and so whereas many of the clergy and gentry do not keep a servant (wages being enormous), and ladies like your s... ...e young men running through the bush with bows and arrows, and these young gentry have not the sense to behave well like their parents.’ Vanikoro was ... ...der to fulfil that trust they must mix on some degree of equality with the gentry, and with the middle classes who are well-to-do. Then again, conside... ... be true, but that was not an excellence but a defect, and the mass of the gentry and no- bility could not do so much. They did a great work then. It ...

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...ce then, pursuing its modest course, it had given to the sons of the local gentry and of the profes- sional people of Kent an education sufficient to ... ...y-boys, of whom there were about a hun- dred and fifty , sons of the local gentry and of the men stationed at the depot, those whose fathers were enga... ...an A. R. A. before he’s forty. Portraits done by hand for the nobility and gentry!” Philip, too, looked into the future, and he saw Clutton in twenty ... ...the nation and dealt the death-blow to the prestige of the aristocracy and gentry who till then had found no one seriously to oppose their assertion t...

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...hepherd the more set against the poor boy. ‘Ay, ay, I know—coming over the gentry; and a good thing he’s gone!’ said she. ‘The place isn’t to be harbo...

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...at do you mean by people?’ said Anne. ‘The dull, respectable, common-place gentry, who make up the mass of mankind,’ said Elizabeth. ‘Do they ?’ said ...

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...hat was his, were the oldest and best; and as he never associated with any gentry higher than himself, his opinion was not dis- turbed by comparison. ...

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... on the day before his death. “He was visited by several of the clergy and gentry in his cell; among others, by the Popish priest whom he had robbed, ...

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...dries of his dominions—the peerage, senatorial or prætorian, and the great gentry or chivalry of the Equites. These were classes who would have been d...

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...hat was his, were the oldest and best; and as he never associated with any gentry higher than himself, his opinion was not disturbed by comparison. He...

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...en the two old men (Akim was fifty-six); the mer- chant inquired about the gentry of the neighbourhood and no one could give him more useful informati...