Gentlemen in example sentence
The crockery having been removed, the table with the green baize cover was carried out into the centre of the room, and the business of the evening was commenced by a little emphatic man, with a bald head and drab shorts, who suddenly rushed up the ladder, at the imminent peril of snapping the two little legs incased in the drab shorts, and said--'Ladies and gentlemen, I move our excellent brother, Mr. Anthony Humm, into the chair.'