Gentleman
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1701 examples of Gentleman in a sentence
Then was seen stepping down from the carriage a
gentleman
in a short coat with silver braiding, with bald brow, and wearing a tuft of hair at the back of his head, of a sallow complexion and the most benign appearance.
"But why," asked Bovary, "does that
gentleman
persecute her?""No, no!" she answered; "he is her lover!"
He held out his hand with the ease of a gentleman; and Madame Bovary extended hers, without doubt obeying the attraction of a stronger will.
"The
gentleman
isn't in," answered a servant.
He came towards Leon, and, with that smile of wheedling benignity assumed by ecclesiastics when they question children—"The gentleman, no doubt, does not belong to these parts?
The
gentleman
would like to see the curiosities of the church?"
"And on the right, this
gentleman
all encased in iron, on the prancing horse, is his grandson, Louis de Breze, lord of Breval and of Montchauvet, Count de Maulevrier, Baron de Mauny, chamberlain to the king, Knight of the Order, and also governor of Normandy; died on the 23rd of July, 1531—a Sunday, as the inscription specifies; and below, this figure, about to descend into the tomb, portrays the same person.
Then tears obscured them, her red eyelids were lowered, she gave him her hands, and Leon was pressing them to his lips when a servant appeared to tell the
gentleman
that he was wanted.
She stopped to let pass a black horse, pawing the ground between the shafts of a tilbury, driven by a
gentleman
in sable furs.
I will tell this
gentleman
all about it.
'He may live to rue the day, that fine
gentleman
from Paris,' M. de Renal was saying in a tone of annoyance, his cheek paler even than was its wont.
This fine
gentleman
from Paris, so odious to the Mayor of Verrieres, was none other than M. Appert, [Footnote: A contemporary philanthropist and prison visitor.]
'But,' Madame de Renal put in timidly, 'what harm can this
gentleman
from Paris do you, since you provide for the welfare of the poor with the most scrupulous honesty?''He has only come to cast blame, and then he'll go back and have articles put in the Liberal papers.''You never read them, my dear.''But people tell us about those Jacobin articles; all that distracts us, and hinders us from doing good.
'I am old and liked here,' he murmured to himself at length, 'they would never dare!'Turning at once to the
gentleman
from Paris, with eyes in which, despite his great age, there burned that sacred fire which betokens the pleasure of performing a fine action which is slightly dangerous:'Come with me, Sir, and, in the presence of the gaoler and especially of the superintendents of the poorhouse, be so good as not to express any opinion of the things we shall see.'M. Appert realised that he had to deal with a man of feeling; he accompanied the venerable cure, visited the prison, the hospital, the poorhouse, asked many questions and, notwithstanding strange answers, did not allow himself to utter the least word of reproach.
'Ah, Sir,' he said to the cure, on catching sight of him, 'is not this gentleman, that I see with you, M. Appert?''What if he is?' said the cure.
I save nothing out of my stipend, gentlemen, and that may be why I am less alarmed when people speak of taking it from me.'M. de Renal lived on excellent terms with his wife; but not knowing what answer to make to the question, which she timidly repeated: 'What harm can this
gentleman
from Paris do to the prisoners?' he was just about to lose his temper altogether when she uttered a cry.
'To make a round sum, a rich and generous
gentleman
like our Mayor,' the peasant insinuated in a coaxing voice, 'will surely go as far as thirty-six.''All right,' said M. de Renal, 'but let us have no more of this.'
Everyone who is not a gentleman, who lives in your house and receives a salary, is your servant.
'I was thinking, Sir,' he said to him one day, 'that it would be highly improper for the name of a respectable
gentleman
like a Renal to appear on the dirty ledger of the librarian.'
Madame de Renal, the wealthy heiress of a religious aunt, married at sixteen to a worthy gentleman, had never in her life felt or seen anything that bore the faintest resemblance to love.
'Yes, I have won a battle,' he told himself, 'but I must follow it up, I must crush the arrogance of this proud
gentleman
while he is still retreating.
Yesterday, at Verrieres, he will have asked for three days in which to think things over; and this morning, so as not to be obliged to give me an answer, the young
gentleman
goes off to the mountains.
You would show temper and make him cross with me; you know how touchy the little
gentleman
is.''That young man has no tact,' went on Madame de Renal; 'he may be learned, you know about that, but at bottom he is nothing but a peasant.
They were already on the landing, and the poor tutor, on the verge of disgrace, was ushering out with all due respect the future Prefect of some fortunate Department, when it pleased the latter
gentleman
to occupy himself with Julien's career, to praise his moderation where his own interests were concerned, etc., etc.Finally M. de Maugiron, taking him in his arms in the most fatherly manner, suggested to him that he should leave M. de Renal and enter the household of an official who had children to educate, and who, like King Philip, would thank heaven, not so much for having given him them as for having caused them to be born in the neighbourhood of M. Julien.
'You are not to look askance at that gentleman; he is my brother-in-law.'
'Look at that gentleman, look at that proud fellow,' they would say, 'pretending to despise our best ration, sausages with cabbage!
A
gentleman
who signed himself Paul Sorel, and professed to be related to him, sent him a bill of exchange for five hundred francs.
The Edinburgh ReviewThe Marquis de La Mole received the abbe Pirard without any of those little mannerisms of a great gentleman, outwardly so polite, but so impertinent to him who understands them.
VIRGIL'The
gentleman
is waiting, surely, for the mail-coach for Paris?' he was asked by the landlord of an inn at which he stopped to break his fast.
He was looking at a magnificent gilt clock, representing a subject that in his opinion was highly indecent, when a most elegant
gentleman
approached them with an affable expression.
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