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... convulsions which appeared to be impending. The situation of the inferior gentry, or Franklins, as they were called, who, by the law and spirit of th... ...y delinquencies, rendered him a favourite among the nobility and principal gentry, to several of whom he was allied by birth, being of a distinguished... ...North Riding; circumstances which strongly recommended him to the youthful gentry. With the old, be had another part to play, which, when need- ful, h... ...was soon filled by substantial yeomen and burghers, and such of the lesser gentry, as, from modesty, poverty, or dubious title, durst not assume any h... ...inguished Saxon and Danish families, as well as to the Norman nobility and gentry of the neighbourhood. How- ever despised and degraded on ordinary oc... ...ity of the malt and the skill of the brewer. Some few of the poorer Norman gentry might also be seen, distinguished by their shaven chins and short cl...

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...uch a bed, sir,’ returned John Willet; ‘ay, such a bed as few, even of the gentry’s houses, own. A fixter here, sir. I’ve heard say that bedstead is n... ...pposed to have any acquaintance even with the exist ence of such unpolite gentry as the bird claimed to belong to, took Barnaby off at this juncture,... ...r and more dismal when it had passed. It was not unusual for these running gentry, who carried it with a very high hand, to quarrel in the servants’ h... ...dited on the disappearance of his son Joseph, acquainting the nobility and gentry and the public in general with the circumstances of his having left ... ...d handsome building, everything wore its usual as pect. Even the Catholic gentry and tradesmen, of whom there were many resident in different parts o... ...I’m a Protestant, No Popery!’ Having learnt this latter sentiment from the gentry among whom he had lived of late, he delivered it with uncommon empha... ...he brokers’ shops, where they gladly sold it, for any wretched price those gentry chose to give. There were some broken men among these debtors who ha...

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...ead that day on Flodden Field; and among them, numbers of the nobility and gentry. For a long time afterwards, the Scottish peas antry used to believ... ... the poor people refused, they were pressed as soldiers or sailors; if the gentry refused, they were sent to prison. Five gentlemen, named Sir Thomas... ...mere pay without much caring for the cause); but those of the nobility and gentry who were on the King’s side were so brave, and so faithful to him, t... ... gland; so it went on as far as Worcester, where the mayor and some of the gentry proclaimed King Charles the Second A Child’s Histroy of England 390... ..., as his justification for having come at all. At this crisis, some of the gentry joined him; the Royal army began to falter; an engagement was signed...

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...riend, I thus obtained an opportunity of seeing the old Irish nobility and gentry more extensively, and on a more inti- mate footing, than I had hoped... ...rt, some of these were conspicuously in the rear of the English commercial gentry, as to modern refine- ments of luxury. There was at the same time an... ...frantic confluence of horrors. All the loy- alists of Enniscorthy, all the gentry for miles around, who had congregated in that town, as a centre of s...

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...ckyard people of lower rank—dockyard people of lower rank don’t know small gentry—small gentry don’t know tradespeople—commissioner don’t know anybody... ...onder they ain’t afeer’d o’ bustin’.’ ‘That’s the mistaken kindness of the gentry here,’ said Mr. Pickwick. The Pickwick Papers 164 ‘Wery likely,’ re...

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...but one way of dealing with it, and that is to fall sword in hand on those gentry there, sabre a la main sur ces gaillards la,” (Moniteur, Se- ance du... ...s suddenly all rallying. Now were the time to ‘fall sword in hand on those gentry there, ’ could it be done with effect. The Hero of two Worlds is on ...

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...therwood insists on having everything the same day— poor people first, and gentry and farmers altogether. Mamma does not like it, and I expect we shal... ...rank Hawkesworth, and Mr. Weston, or some of them, to man- age so that the gentry may not sit together in a herd, two or three together would be best....

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...en and their attendants, or by the superfluous daughters of the nobles and gentry. Such devotion as led Esclairmonde to the pure atmosphere of prayer ... ...e temptation of running into any such lengths as those 120 The Caged Lion gentry who had plundered the shrine of St. Fiacre at Breuil, or were contin...

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... tenantry mourning out of compliment to the new landlord; the neighbouring gentry’s carriages at three miles an hour, empty, and in profound afflictio... ... Arms. Then, after a lunch in the ser- vants’ hall at Queen’s Crawley, the gentry’s carriages wheeled off to their different destinations: then the un...

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... he said, striking his stomach, “we cannot afford to wait. Moreover, these gentry who lead snug lives in government offices may talk and talk, but the... ...d fast enough; he had thriven uncommonly during our reverses. That sort of gentry lives in squalor and dies in gold. “There were cellars underneath (l...

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...eping a mansion there for the purpose, and providing entertainment for the gentry of the place and neighbourhood. Twilight was setting in when the Maj... ...igh about killing me if I harboured you and got him into trouble, with the gentry.” “If you could only hide me in some loft or barn till I could meet ...

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...hcraft,” was the view of Mr. Sandy Wadgers. “You warnt horseshoes for such gentry as he.” He came round greatly concerned. They wanted him to lead the...

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...and quite despicable: and they may be poor; but I believe they are as much gentry as the Reeds are; for one day, nearly seven years ago, a Mr. Eyre ca... ... to come in here.” “What does she want?” asked Mrs. Eshton. “‘T o tell the gentry their fortunes,’ she says, ma’am; and she swears she must and will d... ...remember Bill Oliver’s father a journeyman needlemaker; and th’ Rivers wor gentry i’ th’ owd days o’ th’ Henrys, as onybody might see by looking into ... ..., a ward he had, was put to school. He broke off acquaintance with all the gentry, and shut himself up like a hermit at the Hall.” “What! did he not l...

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...s of science, of whom—no not of whom—whereof the middle class of Rus- sian gentry are so justly proud! And, secondly, Elena caught me the other day ki...

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...ling by mixed trains, where I might meet with Dutch widows and little German gentry 15 Robert Louis Stevenson fresh from table. I had been but a late...

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...re, mixed 44 Early Short Fiction – Part 2 with a parti-coloured throng of gentry, lacqueys, chapmen, hucksters, and tall personages in parsons’ gowns...

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... his expedi- tion, and very amusingly mimicked and described the coun- try gentry he had seen; Lavretsky laughed, but Lemm would not come out of his c...

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...station and unspotted character, he had been held in high respect. The old gentry of the prov ince were looked upon almost as noblemen while Massa c...

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...erstood that it is not I, but my granduncle Nicholas, of the Polish landed gentry, Cheva- lier de la Legion d’Honneur, etc., who in his young days, ha...

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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, ...